tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18005993.post2091715556195672561..comments2023-06-29T13:59:50.407+03:00Comments on Sussmans b'Aretz: A Decade to Reflect<b>The Sussmans b'Aretz</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17394066296577078801noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18005993.post-87481431581708167152011-04-21T19:16:33.959+03:002011-04-21T19:16:33.959+03:00We took the three kids there as the celebration of...We took the three kids there as the celebration of Noah's bar mitzvah - his bar mitzvah was first day of Pesach, but we went in the summer. Were in Tel Aviv when Sbarros was bombed, but worried about the Levins, who were only a couple of blocks away.<br /><br />But despite Sbarros, everything else going on, I felt safe the whole time we were there.<br /><br />Of course, in 2006, on the Golan, where I could hear katyusha rockets landing 15 km awy, I also felt safe....PCGuruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02496739097808727172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18005993.post-75392467931203478082011-04-21T15:50:10.548+03:002011-04-21T15:50:10.548+03:00We were in Israel that summer - similar story in s...We were in Israel that summer - similar story in so many ways. Went to show solidarity, met friends who were just coming from a funeral of someone killed in a pigua, shopkeepers ecstatic to see us, crying as they wrapped our gifts. The irony for us was we were down the street from Sbarro's when it was bombed and I wanted to go back to the States right away. Three weeks later was 9/11 - I felt so stupid for thinking that when I was in Israel I was 'unsafe'.suzettenoreply@blogger.com