She’s got guts, brains, looks, and faith. Any one of these features alone would make her a charming person, but all of them together make of her an explosive “impossible person to deal with”. No matter – she’s obstinate to boot! Misunderstood by her family, untamed by her teachers, rejected by society and ignored by friends, she still managed to dodge drugs, duck psychiatrists, pass over prostitution and avoid suicide – think I do not see you, Satan? And she’s got talent too. An amateur artist, self-taught scholar, and unpublished writer, she has noticeable impact wherever she goes, but receives credit from no one. Pity she doesn’t care… because you know, she’s very independent and honest too!
Elisheva Barre was born in Jerusalem but she grew up in France. There, she worked as translator and interpreter for Unesco and the British Council, had a try in showbiz, and participated in cultural programs sponsored by the French Ministry of Education in high schools – some of which in Louisiana and Martinique. In 1979, she published two booklets of poems PRIERE A UN ABRE SOLITAIRE and FRANCHE CANCAN ET PAS DE QUOI, and submitted a collection of three hundred illustrated maxims for the newspaper Le Monde that were never returned to her and never published.
In 1980, she came to Israel with her son, learning and teaching Torah in various institutions. She was Rabbi Meir Kahane's assistant and after he was killed wrote a book in French about this period in Jewish History entitled KAHANE ET LE KAHANISME. She then studied with Rabbi Yossef Kappach for 8 years (concentrating on the Rambam and Rav Saadya Gaon), had a weekly radio show in Hebrew and English sponsored by Shifra Hoffman where she analyzed the news in the light of Jewish Law. She obtained the Diploma of the Jerusalem Institute of Biblical Polemics directed by Shmuel Golding, who asked her to write a series of articles on the Bnei Noach commandments for his monthly magazine. A few of her political articles were published in the Bulletin of Yemin Israel in Russian translation.
