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Jewish Halloween: On Dressing in Drag in the Holy Land
During the month of March, should you suddenly find yourself surrounded by a bunch of young girls who are dressed up like Catwoman, you may well have stumbled into a Purim street party. The Jewish...
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Art of the Deal: Is Trump’s Bestseller the Secret to Peace in the Middle East?
Two state solution advocates recently received a boost when US President Donald Trump hosted Palestinian Authority (P.A.) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Abbas’s urging of Trump to restart...
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Job to the Left of Me, Crazy Girls to My Right: Israel Festival Blends...
The Israel Festival, taking place from June 1st to June 18th, 2017, is a sensory delight. The annual interdisciplinary celebration, based in Jerusalem, features performances that you simply won’t be...
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Top 10 plagues of Passover 2019: A father’s journey into and out of Egypt
Passover. The Jewish holiday of freedom. You know the story of how the Israelites, led by that beau hunk Moses, threw off the shackles of bondage, faced off with Pharaoh, unleashed 10 plagues on Egypt...
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Pride and Liberation: A Tale of Two Parades
Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day earlier this week. A highlight of the festivities was the Dance of Flags in the nation’s capital, in which thousands of men, women, students and people from every...
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Life on the Run in Israel
(Karol Kozlowski/Dreamstime.com) Jogging for a good, hard 35-minutes around my neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem is no different than dropping acid, except for the hallucinations, flashbacks,...
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Lost in Translation: Writing For a Living in Israel
“You listen to the language, it’s got that sing songy quality. It’s the language, Jerry, the language.” Seinfeld, ‘The Opera’ My wife approves of my keeping one mistress. She happily walks in on me as...
View ArticleAn Englishman Trapped Inside a Jerusalem Barber Shop
JONATHAN MORNINGSIDE hurries across Street to Davidka Square, his mop of black wavy hair bobbing in the wind. The second he bounds past the tracks of the light rail, Jonathan realizes he’s left the...
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I was priced out of spiraling Jerusalem. I got a second lease on life in Haifa
With rising rents and dimming hopes for peace, what if we strove to be good neighbors instead? “Around here, we don’t use words like ‘Jews’ and ‘Arabs.’” That sentence rings in my ears weeks after my...
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