Elana Sztokman

I live in Gush Etzion. That’s the area 10 miles outside of Jerusalem, south of the Gilo district and a touch past Bethlehem, which includes a cluster of Jewish neighborhoods – including mine, Efrat – and a constellation of Arab villages. It’s been in the news a lot in the past year and a half, [...] Read the rest of this entry →

A thirteen year-old boy in Haifa was hospitalized last week for being nearly strangled by his classmates. Police report that the he and his friends have invented a new game in the past few months, called “Throat Roulette”, in which a participant in strangled for 5-10 seconds while friends watch to see how long he [...] Read the rest of this entry →