My thoughts are with the Israeli members of this forum and everyone connected to Israel. I feel connected to Israel because of the wonderful five trips we did there. I’ve been reading about it all in the NYTimes and other news sources and listening to the analysis on Pod Save the World. The Promised Podcast from Tel Aviv, which Marian got me listening too, is broadcasting about it all too.
So many horrible things have gone on this year - war in Israel and Ukraine, fires in Hawaii and northern Canada, earthquakes in Morocco and Afghanistan. These are just the things I remember. Difficult times.
Hi Pauline. I haven’t checked in here in months, as I’m not really traveling. Hope the condition you’ve been suffering has eased a bit and you are getting around better.
The situation in Israel since the Hamas terrorists invasion on October 7 is mostly all that’s on my mind. And the awful recrudescence of antisemitism here in the US and elsewhere. I’m glad you are following the Promised Podcast, which I think is pretty good even if Noah is sometimes a bit long winded.
Periodicals…. I can’t read or listen to any news source that refuses to refer to the Hamas invaders as terrorists.
I’ve been listening to two other podcasts for nearly a year now: “For Heaven’s Sake” and “The Identity Crisis”. Both are from The Hartman Institute, The former has the great writer Yossi Klein Halevi in conversation with the head of the Hartman Institute.
Like everyone Jewish I know, I’m only a few degrees removed from someone who either has had someone very close called up to active duty in Israel, or horribly murdered, or taken hostage. About 240 hostages, which the International Red Cross, to its great shame, has not yet visited. Lots of internal displacement too, from the unsafe north and south to the center, including my cousin’s wife and baby.
I hope someday the situation will be safe enough for normal tourists to return. There's a long haul ahead, but it will happen.
