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Around 7:30 AM, I walked out to the bus stop and took a bus to the center of town. I hadn’t slept. I needed eggplants and garlic. I went grocery shopping, to the post office, to the bank, and finished all that up by around 9:30. I consulted the map on my phone. No bus …
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I saw you yesterday and remarked on the poetic tragedy of your being separated from your giant moth lover (at least 5cm long) while it was here inside, terrorizing me. Yes, that’s a very sad story, I said, as you desperately hit yourself again and again against my window. You are out there and your …
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I labored over this silly meme for two days in search of the right answers. Fictional people are important!
The first I thought of in an instant and never wavered.
The second entry stayed strongly in contention during the two-day debate of fictional Suz-like titans.
The third was the last to enter the fight, immediately …
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My friend asked me if I wanted to take the scenic route from the Golan Heights back to Haifa and I of course agreed.
She was full of superlatives about the view and its being 30 meters away from the Jordanian border at one part and how it’d be totally worth it.
Hard to say …
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Robin William’s suicide was an emotional shock for a lot of people who never met him in real life.
As a writer and editor, whose main concern is prompting an emotional response from my readers solely through my words, and a long-time appreciator of Robin Williams, I suppose my process for dealing with this terrible …
Currently on a bus down a street in Jerusalem called David HaMelech (King David).
I will never get tired of streets named after Jewish ancestors, Jewish writers, Jewish historical moments.
Driving with Ram a month ago, we came across a street that translated to something like ‘Expelled from Spain.’ (All the Jews were expelled from …
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Today is my last Fourth of July in the United States of America for a long time.
I love this day.
This concept that governments are here to give us the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness—with our consent—and that they lose this consent if the government deviates from its …
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When I walk down the street, I picture myself walking down an Israeli street. It might feel exactly the same.
That neighbor could be my Israeli neighbor, muttering in Hebrew with her husband instead of in English. Walking down random streets tends to feel the same way, no matter where I am walking.
The similarity …
Today, my sister brought up a David Ben-Gurion quote:
“In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.”
David Ben-GurionJoshua stopping the sun and Daniel in a den of lions are pretty remarkable, but in my personal life, they don’t compare right now to the fact that the Jewish Agency …
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Modern Hebrew and I are not BFFs. We are friends, or maybe ‘acquaintances’ is the more accurate description. I am on nodding terms with his grandfather, Biblical Hebrew, but the old man mostly acknowledges me back because he doesn’t want to embarrass me in front of everyone.
Really, it’s a pity nod.
I imagine Biblical …
Everyone in this world that I have ever met will confront their own death one day.
I’ll die in Israel, hopefully from old age and surrounded by my awesome family. And lots of books.
The world does not end when we do.
I mentioned to my father yesterday in an email that the safety of …
I loved my second grade teacher. (Actually, she was a third grade teacher; I placed high in English so they bumped me up.) She was a kind woman with a pretty smile. I liked the way she explained math problems.
She gave us excellent stories to read, sent us on treasure hunts and used any …