by Kim Troup | Mar 4, 2020 | Reflections from Israel, Word to the Nations
March 10, 2020 By Meira Weber When I was very little, my father took me outside on the eve of the first day of Adar, the Hebrew month in which we celebrate the holiday of Purim. Evening was a deep blue bowl studded with glittering stars. We stood there on the driveway...
by Kim Troup | Feb 14, 2012 | Reflections from Israel
The month of Adar always keeps me on an emotional roller coaster. Usually coinciding with the month of March, it is a natural time of happiness. The jolly, festive holiday of Purim falls in the middle of Adar, and for weeks beforehand, schools, kinder- gartens,...
by Kim Troup | Jan 30, 2012 | Reflections from Israel
March 2011 I can’t get those faces of the Fogel family out of my mind. Udi and Ruth, the mother and father, little Yoav and Elad the sons, and Hadas the baby girl. Friday night, two knife-wielding terrorist monsters infiltrated the Samaria community of Itamar, just...
