Marcia and I only recently began to reengage with ordinary life here in Israel, roughly two years after this country began its experiment with Covid-19, its new and highly-regarded therapies and its legion of mutated cousins, the bugs, you’ll … [Read more]
Next year in Sharm el-sheik
Tourism along the Sinai Peninsula’s Gulf of Aqaba coastline has staged a post-COVID revival of sorts thanks in large part to hordes of Israeli Jews headed in the (historically) wrong direction. This Passover, for example, roughly 3,500 years after … [Read more]
An interview with Israeli-American Artist Carolyn Hyde
Raised as an Orthodox Jew as a youngster in the greater Chicago area in the United States, Carolyn Hyde later experienced—as a self-described new-age hippie—a vision of the Jewish Messiah that radically transformed her life. … [Read more]
The geometric nature of Israeli traffic
Whoever oversees such things in our part of Jerusalem recently began demolition of two iconic traffic circles in our neighborhood—iconic in the sense that nearly everyone who lives in the area has risked his or her life on them. The circles connect … [Read more]
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