In this overly consummated and competitive market, it is rare to find original designs. Everything seems to end up being it’s own copycat.

Dishonest Apparel is one of those black sheep that holds nothing back! The designs give a loud voice to taboos and consumers can have a laugh with it!

The three founders who started their business in a backyard shed, call themselves humble and generous (gotta love them!) and want to spread their controversial and revolutionary brand around the world. And why shouldn’t they? They offer a wide range of hilarious designs (all designed by them three) and this thing called “Vote to Print” where members can upload their own artwork and hope for other members to vote for them; once their designs hit 25 votes, it goes to print and the designer gets a percentage of the sales! pretty cool right?

Become a part of this phenomena by wearing one of their seriously hot shirts (some of them even made me raise an eyebrow!) or upload your own artwork to spread your message around the globe!

Like their message says: “Be kind, humble, happy, and change the world before you die!”

yep, do that!

www.dishonestapparel.com

A few days ago, on my flight to L.A., I finally got to watch Ricki Lake’s documentary “The business of being born”, while my baby girl was sleeping next to me. I burst into happy tears every 10 minutes and covered my mouth in shock every 5.
The documentary confirmed what I knew all along. In today’s time, women are being robbed of the opportunity to experience birth as a natural and beautiful experience.
There is the so-called “Designer Birth” which is very popular only in the U.S., where a woman can schedule a C-section that would fit into her schedule. The United States has the second worst newborn death rate in the developed world!! Everywhere in the world midwives are attending 70-80% of births, the U.S. stands alone at under 1%!
Both of my babies were born in a hospital and I am thankful to have had good healthy deliveries. Even though I went to visit birthing centers before my first baby was born, I didn’t really know what to expect. But with my second pregnancy, I knew I wanted something different. It wouldn’t mean delivering my baby in the woods, but I didn’t want to have pain medications and certainly didn’t want to be strapped to the hospital bed. The hospital setting could not support my desires. They are not set up to support it. They have no time for it.
The fact is, that the birthing business in the United States is in crisis.
At the end of the day, each woman should choose how she wants to give birth, whether it’s with a midwife or in the hospital, but we all should be correctly informed about the options.
People spend more time doing research when buying cars or even cameras than on the way they want to deliver their babies.
Watch this documentary, it is eye opening and necessary to know.

Happy Labor day!

In my recent journey I have witnessed a massive imbalance in my life and in the world.
The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. It’s not natural and I know it.

Earlier this week I was watching CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour’s documentary about the muslim youngsters in Afghanistan and in Gaza, Israel. The entire film was portraying an almost complete turn-around in those kid’s desires, they all want a piece of the western freedom.
I saw 30000 students sitting outdoors in 120 degree heat learning to read and write with a craving and desire for knowledge, more that I have ever thought.
A situation greatly alarming for the terror organizations Taliban and Hamas, is that the message of hatred in the name of Allah and being a Martyr is no longer attractive to those youngsters. Schools for girls in Afghanistan are often being targeted with bombs by the Taliban, to stop them from gaining knowledge and freedom. Amanpour interviewed an american Doctor who has devoted his life to building schools for the kids, especially for girls. I was moved to tears when I saw the smiles and joy on those kid’s faces when they entered their newly built class rooms with actual desks. It was eye opening.
In Gaza she portrayed a more torn situation, one side hating more and more and vowing to teach their kids to hate, and the other side wanting peace and equality more than anything.
Nobel peace prize nominee Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, a palestinian doctor who worked in an israeli hospital has lost three of his daughters in the latest war, yet he persisted in promoting peace, and has continued in his search for justice and equality. He explains that he is a “human being” and is committed to humanity. More than this, he is unable to hate people [in themselves] but hates their actions. This too was eye opening.

There are always two sides of a story, and I always claimed to be on one.
As a citizen of both Israel and Switzerland I always refused to take on the neutrality of the swiss and chose the patriotism of the israelis.
The world has been judging from day one, they could not understand the pain israelis endure on a daily basis.
The constant fear of a suicide bombing, the fact that sons go to the army at 18 and might never come back, all the yearly memorial days for the fallen soldiers and the thoughts of “what if it was my son”. The confinement within the freedom and the constant judgment from the world were no help in opening my heart.
There seemed to be no way out, israelis blame the palestinians and vice versa. It is clear that this circle of hatred must be broken, but who shall break it first?….

And here comes the peace seeker in me. I was raised by two unique hippies, we lived in northern Israel amongst israeli arabs in peace. Early on in my life I saw that it is possible.
My mother and father welcomed every culture in their lives and taught my brother and I to always seek peace and keep our hearts open with tolerance.

I have been inspired by the village Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace) -Located mid-way between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam is a community of 55 families, half Palestinian and half Jewish, all with Israeli citizenship. Democratically governed by two elected committees (the Aguda for the administrative aspects; the Amuta for the educational ones), the village’s mission is to demonstrate that Jews and Palestinians can live together as equals.
Many threads of peace like this one exist, we just have to affiliate ourselves with the thread we feel most connected with.
There is a chance for peace by promoting it to the young generation.
They want it, here, in the middle-east and all around the world, they all still have the sparkle in their eyes, there is a way to maintain it and let it grow and evolve.

Peace is our true self, peace is our nature.

Om Shanti