About Varda Epstein

A third-generation-born Pittsburgher on her mother’s mother’s side, Varda moved to Israel 36 years ago and is a crazy political animal who spams people with right wing political articles on Facebook in between raising her 12 children and writing about education as the communications writer at Kars for Kids a Guidestar gold medal charity.

All Articles

July 12, 2016
Getting Facebook to take down ugly, antisemitic pages requires numbers and persistence.
July 4, 2016
You know how you open a bag of cereal and it’s mostly air with a little cereal? That’s our fault, too.
Balloons released on the occasion of the second anniversary of the founding of Oz VeGaon
July 3, 2016
Has it really been two years since the three boys and Oz VeGaon entered our hearts to stay?
Halel Yaffa Ariel's Bedroom
June 30, 2016
Hallel Yaffa Ariel was murdered as she slept in her bed for the crime of being Jewish and alive.
June 7, 2016
A short documentary about the peaceful work of Ateret Cohanim at the eye of the storm.
June 3, 2016
A wounded hero can now go home thanks to an overwhelmingly successful Israeli crowdfunding campaign!
May 31, 2016
A new poll says fully one-third of American college students support BDS. Is your Jewish child safe?
May 23, 2016
Yael Weissman, widow of Sergeant Yanai Weissman, HY”D, attends a special bris.
May 22, 2016
Wapo plays rock, paper, scissors, and oops! The Jews lose, because the Arabs have a mosque on the Temple Mount.
May 19, 2016
Alan Dershowitz takes a roots trip to Europe and has an epiphany: the Holocaust is the reason for Israel.
May 11, 2016
It takes a Moroccan Jewish mama, one Miriam Peretz, to say no to Obama.
May 9, 2016
How does a mother go on after losing not one but two soldier sons?
May 5, 2016
Varda thought she had no relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Then she read a big fat book about her family. This is her personal Holocaust story.
May 4, 2016
In which Varda’s blood boils and she writes a letter to the editor of the Jerusalem Post