Showing posts with label Anat Schneider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anat Schneider. Show all posts

Friday, May 12, 2017

Women in the Bible - Anat Schneider ISRAEL TODAY

Women in the Bible

Friday, May 12, 2017 |  Anat Schneider  ISRAEL TODAY

Israel Today takes an inside look at a stunning artistic demonstration recreating scenes with women in the Bible.
The full article appears in the May 2017 issue of Israel Today Magazine.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time as this? - Anat Schneider ISRAEL TODAY

Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time as this?

Tuesday, August 09, 2016 |  Anat Schneider  ISRAEL TODAY
The Book of Esther is an inspired book of a little woman who, at the moment of truth, made a life changing decision which changed the history of the Jewish people.
In the book of Esther there was a man who saw the future and took calculated steps towards it, Mordechai the Jew, Esther's cousin who understood that his people needed somebody close to the king. He realized that the Jewish people were in danger.
And at the decisive moment he knew what advice to give Esther.
Advice that propelled her to a higher spiritual plane
Which helped her to act and save her people.
And what were those things
Which worked like a charm
Which raised her spiritual feeling
A few notches,
The sense of a mission,
And elation,
And satisfaction?
Mordecai had the same message for Esther that I have for you today. "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place!"
"Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for a time as this?" Esther 4:14

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Monday, February 8, 2016

Training in the bitter cold - Anat Schneider ISRAEL TODAY

Training in the bitter cold

Monday, February 08, 2016 |  Anat Schneider  
ISRAEL TODAY
It was freezing outside as we communicated with Moran via our family's WhatsApp group.
My son Moran is someone that has always endured the cold without discomfort. Since he was a young boy he liked to lie on the floor in order to cool down.
While everybody was warmly wrapped in sweaters and jackets during the winter, he would be wearing shorts. He would usually comment how warm it was.
A couple of Shabbats ago, when he returned home, he expressly stated, "I do not like winter!"
The week that followed, Israel was enveloped by an unusually cold spell and the temperatures dropped below freezing.
He and his whole unit were in the field training during that whole week.
They were out in the field exposed to the elements without tents, without warm jackets, no hot showers and without hot food.
In the howling wind and freezing rain they slogged on with their training.
All honor to those kids who, just a year ago, were spoiled high school scholars who got up to the usual mischief.
Here they are, having matured enormously from teenagers to IDF combat soldiers full of discipline, understanding the responsibility entrusted to them of defending the country and her citizens.
"What a man he has become!" says everybody.
But for me as a mother it is not always easy. I want my 19 year-old son at home! I would like him to remain a child for another couple of years. The transformation from child to soldier has been so sudden and drastic.
What choice do I have?
But to sit in a cosy home and pray that as he and his soldier buddies sleep on the cold earth, it will only be in training.
That they will return home healthy, safe and sound is the prayer of mothers and fathers.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

I have no other country...Anat Schneider, ISRAEL TODAY

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I have no other country...

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 |  Anat Schneider  ISRAEL TODAY
YM relevant
Whether you like it or not, whether you choose or not, or how much we pray or not, We, in Israel, still find ourselves in a bloody conflict with the Arabs.

Sending our children to schools and kindergartens with concerns that the bus will explode on the way.

Or some madman will ram his car into those waiting at a bus station at full force and crush them sending their bodies flying in all directions.

We travel the streets - whether to a supermarket, school, or work, or just to meet with friends - and some crazy kid could pursue us with a knife indiscriminately plunging it into someone's body as long as the victim is Jewish.

And life here become more bizarre as time goes by.

People walk around with guns, tear gas, and those without will use any means - a club, a rolling pin or even a selfie-stick. Anything in order to defend onesself from monstrous attacks.

In the last week people were seen walking the streets with sticks, looking in all directions making sure nothing suspicious appears or even an attacker.

As the days passed one saw fewer and fewer people on the streets, the malls were empty, markets empty and even cafes were empty.

People only did necessary errands and business and quickly returned to their homes or offices their "safe" places.

Even kindergartens and schools went on strike because parents felt that there was not enough security. Parents volunteered to do guard duty shifts. Some even refused to send their children to school.

The question is have we become accustomed to the situation?

This is a bizarre question, because on the one hand, yes, we have become accustomed to these difficult situations. On the other hand we want to live.

For God's sake let us live in peace, we really do not want war.

We love and revere life, work, fun and togetherness with family and friends.

All we want is to live a normal quiet and simple life.

We are fed up with becoming accustomed with the situation, we are tired of this madness.

The worst madness is always accompanied with the cry "Allah HuAkbar" - "Allah is Greatest" heard as each terrorist commits his attack.

I ask, "what kind of god sanctifies such things? What kind of god demands such hatred? What kind of god?"

Then comes the news from the world which seems to twist the knife in the wound and just exacerbates the bleeding wound.

Terrorists are presented as the unfortunate victims, those protecting lives as the killers.

Everything upside down.

It's frustrating and disparaging.

How many strikes can one absorb? How many?

Israel has become accustomed to severe beatings.

And yet Israel still remains merciful and compassionate.

And this is the truth even if the world says otherwise.

And your role is to be attentive.

To be ambassadors and show your love through your actions.

I really mean that - I have no other country...


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