Category: Blog

Dear friends, For two years, this is the message we have desperately hoped to share. After 738 grueling days, all the remaining living hostages are back in the embrace of […]

Dear friends,  Tonight begins the holiday of Sukkot, one of the most joyous holidays in the Jewish calendar. Yet it feels hard to transition from the solemnity of Yom Kippur to […]

Dear friends,  It is hard to believe, but this is the fifth Rosh Hashanah I have written to you to reflect on the year that has passed and to set […]

Dear Friends, Today marks the unthinkable 700th day since October 7, 2023; 700 unimaginable days of captivity for the remaining hostages being held by Hamas. I marked this terrible, painful milestone […]

Dear friends, After 503 days, the news we dreaded – the news we knew on some level was coming – finally arrived. And all our hearts, which have been broken […]

Dear friends, Today’s news of the ceasefire and hostage release deal in Isarel is both a welcome relief, and a sign of much more work to come. We are especially […]

Dear friends, A week after October 7th, my family and I went to the wedding of the daughter of some of our closest friends, whom we have known for a […]

Friends, A few days ago, Heidi wrote to you from Sha’ar HaNegev following our second Solidarity Mission as Israeli artillery in Gaza boomed in the background. We spent four intense […]

This Sunday marks 100 days. One hundred days since the “Black Sabbath;” since more than 200 Israelis and foreign nationals were taken into Gaza as hostages. One hundred days of […]

Dear friends,  It has been almost a week since I returned from our Federation Solidarity Mission to Israel, and as I lit the candles with friends and family from San […]