The Nine Days
This week, began the 9 Days. This is known to be a “dangerous” time for Jews no matter where they are. Here in Israel, and in a religious community, it is very clear. The pool is closed. Nobody listens to music. No parties. No meat. No wine. No weddings. No movies on the grass. 2000 […]
Summer nights
About a year ago I watched a movie called Interstellar. It was about a man who went into space to find a new world, because earth was burning up. He had a wife and a young 10-year-old daughter when he left. When he finally found her again, she was an old woman. He had missed […]
Returning Home
CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE LATEST ARCHIVED SHOWS OF ‘RETURNING HOME’ WITH NATALIE SOPINSKY. Returning Home’ airs every Thursday at 4pm Israel time / 9am US eastern time. Natalie Sopinsky, a Delaware native, was raised in an all-American Conservative Jewish family. Today she is a pistol-wearing hitch-hiking settler living in the Hebron Hills. A lawyer, lifeguard, […]
Summer in Israel
This summer, like the past 9 summers, I am the Susya pool lifeguard. Everyday my day starts at 6:30 when I greet swimmers; and continues throughout the day. Our summers here in Har Hevron are slow and easy. Not much goes on. That is a blessing. In the summer of 2017, right at the very […]
Building up Our Land
This past week we have been busy. We dedicated a Security Room in Alei Zahav in the Southern Shomron, we installed emergency equipment in Ir David in the Old City of Jerusalem, we dedicated a Library in Kerem Re’im in Binyamin, and we conducted a sophisticated training exercise at the Abu Dis checkpoint, where terror […]