Judie worked as a weekly columnist and feature writer at the Israeli, English-language newspaper, ‘The Jerusalem Post.’ During that period, she was appointed Director of the newspaper’s four charitable Funds, including ‘Operation Homecoming,’ for Ethiopian Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel after a secret airlift from Sudan, code–named 'Operation Moses.' Later, Judie left the newspaper to organize and direct a small, under-the-table organization that assisted at-risk Ethiopian Jews to leave war-torn Ethiopia for Israel . In the process, she took a 10-year-old girl named Lewteh into her family.