“Wait while my husband puts on his shoes…” Ramot Naftali is an agricultural moshav in the Upper Galilee lying two miles southeast of Israel’s border with Lebanon. Upon a breezy hilltop overlooking the Hula Valley, a scant fifteen miles from … [Read more]
Prophecy, Vintners, and Aliyah
Bottling line at Golan Winery, The Galilee Everyone in Israel has a story, usually fascinating and, at first glance, always a bit mysterious. But the seeming mysteries in each account—a persistent dream, a sequence of apparent coincidences that … [Read more]
Savlanut and the “Jewish heart”
“The heart though small embraces the whole wide world.” Yiddish saying. An IDF soldier, with semi-automatic weapon and iPhone in hand, walks past Zion Square in Jerusalem. The collective Israeli psyche, if such a thing exists, is ambiguous, … [Read more]
Announcing, “Good Morning, Residents!
Rachel wasn't useless yet, unless you spoke to her kids. "Don't let the old man in" Every idea comes from somewhere. The notion to write about the elderly sprang from a few, fairly recent, providential visits to The Palms of Fort Myers, a … [Read more]
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