Simply Noa
Published in The Australian Jewish News
September 14, 2023
“I know what your purpose in life is.”
It was the statement that halted the conversation between Hollywood actress, producer, author and pro-Israel activist Noa Tishby and her close friend, Sarah Treem.
Tishby and Treem had remained friends since they worked alongside each other as executive producer and writer respectively, on the Emmy-winning American television series In Treatment.
Now, they sat around Treem’s dining table, joined by their young children.
Between mouthfuls of butternut pumpkin, their children pondered a small topic: the meaning of life.
“I know what your purpose in life is,” Tishby’s seven-year-old son Ari offered his mother.
“It’s to tell the story of the Jewish people.”