Faigie Heiman

The difference

Those who came on aliya took the road less travelled by and are thankful every day that they rose to the challenge.

Mourners who participate in the funerals of lone soldiers perform chessed shel emet, total acts of kindness. Painkillers don't help.

The prayer for rain this year has not been answered with any heavy rain yet, but it has returned the spirit for unity among our people.

I’ve been there, felt the fear but also seen the acts of kindness, the beautiful notes children sent to their fathers at the front. Op-ed.

Memories of a loved one, of the lockdown, of 50 years lived in Jerusalem fill the writer's heart as she continues on alone. Op-ed.

Jerusalem is not my birth city. Jerusalem is my home.Our generation has merited a renewed, thriving, sacred and and ancestral city. Op-ed.

All extreme difficulties can be overcome once people join together, when hearts are bonded. Am echad b’lev echad – One nation as one heart.

Jerusalem Pine. If I open the window, I can finger her wispy greens. When the window is closed, her long branches caress my memory..

Parshat Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Chayei Sarah are the Torah portions of personal departure from America, and our arrival in Eretz Yisrael.

Pray the Almighty judge from His seat of compassion, as we fight today's enemy with masks, distancing, being seated alone at home.