DAbraham

I hope this becomes mandatory reading for all students

Revisado: 04-23-25

Douglas (or as my friends and I have fondly dubbed you throughout the past 18 month, Dougie.

I just finished listening to your newest book. I'm sitting here weeping from the final chapter, it was the most beautiful love letter to Israel and Israelis I've ever heard (close to the poetry of Rachel, whom you might be familiar with

I have come to know you at an impossible time in the world. The first video of yours i saw probably a week or so after 10/7 was like a balm for our battered and scraped soul. I have since followed you religiously, every interview, every direct address, every bitingly witty NY Post column.

But this book, was beyond anything I could have imagined. I simultaneously devoured it and savoured it, like one would do with a sublime box of chocolates brought by a friend who traveled somewhere exotic, wanting to taste them all but not wanting it to end.

I am US born, lived in Israel for much of my formative years, back and forth like a hybrid, finally meeting my husband back in Israel and moving with our baby daughter to silicon Valley 10.5 years ago (he's an entrepreneur, I'm a Storyteller for startups)

We speak Hebrew, our friends here are Israeli and being far from home during this has been both excruciating and a relief, while at the same time being continuously tsunamied by wave after wave of hatred and Antisemitism.

Having people like yourself is one of the greatest silver (cobalt? Platinum?) linings in what is a very black, thick cloud of 1.5 years. And this book is a culmination of this devotion and dedication to standing with the Jewish and Israeli people, and humanity as well.

I am not sure this email will reach you, but if it does, just to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for who you are. From one Storyteller (and author) to another, my heart, mind and soul salute you.

I hope you win the highest prizes for this book, and I hope that it becomes required reading when they finally reach the true lessons of this bizarre time.

I hope you will consider coming to the San Francisco Bay area on your book tour. We would love to host you at the Palo Alto JCC and fill up and auditorium with grateful people. I would be front an center, and it would be an honor to shake your hand 🙏🏻

Thank you Dougie (sorry if you hate that nickname)

Toda u Be Ahava

Donna Griffit
Corporate Storyteller

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