Dalia Rosenfeld
By Dalia Rosenfeld
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Culture I Will Never Match My Mother’s Good Deeds
A bright light lit up my room when my mother died. Or rather, when I was informed, from across the ocean, that my mother had died. It was an unwelcome illumination, the prosaic light of a cell phone, silent but insidious, like the message it was trying to convey. I don’t recall my father’s words…
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Culture Can Tel Aviv Help Cure My Son’s Diabetes?
Sometimes it’s better to leave the things we buy in the boxes they come in. Such was the case with the Hammacher Schlemmer recumbent exercise bicycle (assembly required) that I bought for my teenage son after he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and needed to stay on the move to bring his blood sugar…
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Culture A Lizard’s Eye View of the Conflict in Israel
My three sons were looking for lizards when the first sirens blared. Overlooking the sea, Independence Park in Tel Aviv is the perfect place to find lizards, if you can force yourself to be still enough to evade their detection. To say the sirens broke the silence is an understatement. You don’t have to be…
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