Gila Svirsky: A Personal Website

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My New Grandsons!
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6 months old (late January 2008) - Omer on right, Eitan on left.
I'm 61.5 years old and feeling a little posterity-minded.  So here's how I want to be remembered:  a writer and an Israeli Jew deeply involved in peace and human rights activism.
 
But here's the life I really led:
 
Gila Svirsky played a lot of basketball and was quite good at it.  Anyway, she loved playing.  She day-dreamt basketball to relax and to put herself to sleep at night.  This was the defining character-shaper of her life.  Long live team sports.  Especially women's basketball.
 
And I have a great family.  This website is dedicated to the three women in my life: Judy, Mieka, and Denna.
 
Here they are below, in that Kodak sort of way.
 
And if you are curious about more details...

My life- and love-partner Judy (right) and me.
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Judy works for the UN in Jerusalem when I can't get her to stay home with me.

Daughter #2: Denna Brand
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Denna, my scuba diver, lives in Kibbutz Sa'ar.
Daughter #1: Mieka Brand
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Mieka, an anthropologist, new mom of twin boys - my first grandchildren!
Mieka's partner, Tony Polanca
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Tony's a Caribbean chef. Lucky Mieka!

Bro #1 & sis-in-law: Eli and Cookie Schwartz
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But too far away - in Boca Raton, Florida

Bro #2 & sis-in-law: Paul & Sara Schwartz
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My religious brother from Monsey, NY. Sadly, Sara just passed away.

“We don’t believe in pressuring the children.  When the time is right, they’ll choose the appropriate gender.”

Robert Mankoff, New Yorker, February 20, 1995