However, I heard from PM's that, well, let us say she wasn't very welcomed and leave it at that.

As someone who had e-mailed her directly and often, and was in touch with her on many different *fronts, I refuse to "leave it at that" when *that is incorrect. ewein, whomever PM'd you was misinformed and leaving *it at *that promotes a misrepresentation.

She was welcomed for all the same reasons everyone else is welcomed. She stopped posting cause she got a new job and the situation where she was (Jerusalem, ISRAEL) had become quite frightening for her (and has since gotten worse).

There would be a large void if emanuela left us, just as there was when Soshanna left.

I wanna know what happened to Marty!

... and where's Waldo?