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That They Be Safe in the Land: from Jerusalem, Oct 12, 2023

I can’t sleep more than a few fitful hours at a time. I look at my phone, force myself to put it down, close my eyes, and wait and wait…

Oct 18, 2023

Ilana Blumberg

“We Regret to Inform You”: Jerusalem Diary, November 15, 2023.

35 Days After October 7, 2023, Jerusalem.

Nov 20, 2023

“We Regret to Inform You”: Jerusalem Diary, November 15, 2023.

Nov 20, 2023

Ilana Blumberg

Absentee ballot: Living the American election from Israel

Living in Israel as a dual citizen, American and Israeli, is a killer this week. People go about their business as if it were an ordinary…

Nov 3, 2020

Absentee ballot: Living the American election from Israel

Nov 3, 2020

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The Video that Should Have Gone Viral: Why Police Don’t Belong in Schools

In a nation where the biggest waves of social change in a generation began with a fuzzy cellphone video of a man named George Floyd, I…

Jul 27, 2020

The Video that Should Have Gone Viral: Why Police Don’t Belong in Schools

Jul 27, 2020

Ilana Blumberg

Schooling and Getting Schooled

Educating identified Jewish kids in the United States feels like working off-script. It’s one long improvisation. This is certainly true…

Jan 28, 2020

Jan 28, 2020

Ilana Blumberg

Hiring Passover Cleaning Help Woke Me Up To My Own Privilege

Passover is around the corner. This year, as I begin to prepare in Jerusalem, where cleaning products went on sale the morning after Purim…

Apr 15, 2019

Ilana Blumberg

Why Teachers Need to Remember What It’s Like to Learn

I spend a lot of time remembering, and just about as much time imagining.

Feb 12, 2019

Why Teachers Need to Remember What It’s Like to Learn

Feb 12, 2019

Ilana Blumberg

The World Outside the Classroom

Feb 8, 2019

Ilana Blumberg

I’m Not Afraid of My Kid

“Just one more slice…”

Jan 15, 2019

Jan 15, 2019

Ilana Blumberg

What I Learned Watching my Sixth-Grader Take His Test at the Kitchen Table

Part Two: Breathing with my Sixth-Grader’s Teacher

Dec 20, 2018

What I Learned Watching my Sixth-Grader Take His Test at the Kitchen Table

Dec 20, 2018

That They Be Safe in the Land: from Jerusalem, Oct 12, 2023

I can’t sleep more than a few fit­ful hours at a time. I look at my phone, force myself to put it down, close my eyes, and wait and wait…

“We Regret to Inform You”: Jerusalem Diary, November 15, 2023.

35 Days After October 7, 2023, Jerusalem.

Absentee ballot: Living the American election from Israel

Living in Israel as a dual citizen, American and Israeli, is a killer this week. People go about their business as if it were an ordinary…

The Video that Should Have Gone Viral: Why Police Don’t Belong in Schools

In a nation where the biggest waves of social change in a generation began with a fuzzy cellphone video of a man named George Floyd, I…

Schooling and Getting Schooled

Educating identified Jewish kids in the United States feels like working off-script. It’s one long improvisation. This is certainly true…

Hiring Passover Cleaning Help Woke Me Up To My Own Privilege

Passover is around the corner. This year, as I begin to prepare in Jerusalem, where cleaning products went on sale the morning after Purim…

Why Teachers Need to Remember What It’s Like to Learn

I spend a lot of time remembering, and just about as much time imagining.

The World Outside the Classroom

From Open Your Hand: Teaching as a Jew, Teaching as an American, 53–57. Copyright ©2019 by Ilana Blumberg. Reprinted by permission of…

I’m Not Afraid of My Kid

“Just one more slice…”

What I Learned Watching my Sixth-Grader Take His Test at the Kitchen Table

Part Two: Breathing with my Sixth-Grader’s Teacher

Ilana Blumberg

I can’t sleep more than a few fitful hours at a time. I look at my phone, force myself to put it down, close my eyes, and wait and wait…