Sitemap - 2023 - Dispatches from the Holy Land

The End of the Beginning

Response to Accusations of "Genocide" and "Unjustified Response"

More Volunteering: Support Groups, Farming, and Playback performances

Vayigash: He Approacheth

Thoughts on Freedom, Imagination, and a River

Miketz: 2 Years Later

Interview: Ateret Shmuel of Indigenous Bridges

And he settled: 2 Women, 4 Dreams, and a Striped Tunic

Why I keep covering Jewish themes

Va-Yishlach, Part 3

Va-Yishlach, Part 2: Dinah's Story

And He Sent: Va-Yishlach, Part 1

Va-Yetze: And He Went Out

Two Nights in Tel Aviv

Stories for all Generations

Shabbat in Tekoa

The Life of Sarah

Funeral of Rose Lubin

Wartime Improv

Volunteering!

And He Appeared: This Week in Torah

Boundaries

Miracles

Lech Lecha: Looking into this week's Torah parsha

Week of 22 October - Week 3 of War

Comforting Mourners, Visiting Evacuees, and other thoughts + experiences

Peace can be Violent.

The First Shabbat in Declared War

Is it any safer to be in Canada than Israel right now?

Funeral on Friday the 13th

What can you do?

Simchat Torah in a State of Emergency

Shabbat Shuvah: An Improv Retreat for the Soul

Yom Kippur in Nachlaot and beyond

Rosh Hashanah Camping Retreat with Nature and Hippy Rock Stars

Improv: Awards and Triggers

Forgiveness - even when we don't deserve it

Return to yourself

How to Behave in a Conflict

A Trip up the Country and across the Continent

Creating Improvised Plays

8 Days in the Life of Olam Hafooch Improv

Shalom Again

My First Paid Subscriber!

Hiking up mountains and receiving this year's Torah

A Different Kind of Passover

All Shuk Up

"Has anything in your life changed?"

After Pesach

My First Pesach Seder in Yerushalayim

Finding Hidden Meanings and Breadcrumbs before Passover

Shabbat on the Farm (part 2)

I am a Shepherdess!

Journeys of the Mind

Forests and Open Spaces and a Little Bit of Everything

40 Days at the Kotel

The Balcony Prayer Service

OldNewDream, Part 3: Resurrected by Improv, Israel 2023+

Amidah at the Kotel (Standing at the Wall)

Haifa, Holon, Bat Yam, and Shevat

Chasing the Dream: Part 2, Guelph 2016-2022

Now in Jerusalem...

Living The Dream, Part 1: Teaching Improv in Toronto, 2007-2015

Ulpan Exam

Happy Wednesday... Full of Woe

Fast of the Tenth of Tevet

The Husbands Gemach

About Lauren