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From Dry Bones to Start Up Nation
Israel honors its fallen, April 14, 2013 On May 15th 1948 a certain national myth became a reality. Though Jews weren’t the only landless people to walk the earth at the time, it was an exceedingly...
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What this American dad wants his Israeli daughter to know about those United...
The moonscape of my life up until four years ago was dotted with the brittle remains of short lived relationships; charred memories of professional pratfalls and the burning wreckage of several...
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What if Superman had landed in Kabul instead of Kansas?
Clark Kent, Fifth Beatle Looking to duck out of life for a couple of hours, I recently cart wheeled into Jerusalem’s Globus Binyaney HaUma movie theater, where I saw – in delicious 3D – Man of Steel....
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Western Media Yawn as Hamas Imposes Draconian Restrictions on Journalists...
Poor Harriet Sherwood, missing the big picture that’s coming into focus right in front of her nose while obsessively reporting about the latest round of Middle East peace talks that promise to end the...
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No human being is illegal: the truth behind the settlement sideshow
Eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo In an August 12 article the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood reported that, “In highly contentious moves heralding the renewal of...
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As the United States Disengages from the Middle East, Israel Needs to...
U.S President Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization for the use of force against the rogue regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad risks setting a precedent that could limit...
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Postcard from the Edge: Nachlaot, Jerusalem’s SoHo
Should time and circumstance conspire to bring you by plane, train or automobile to Jerusalem, do take a quick detour into the city’s hip, happening, pulsating Nachlaot neighborhood. The beating heart...
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Israel to Change Name of Jerusalem to…
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals invalidated a law that allowed American citizens born in Jerusalem—a population numbering around 50,000—to list Israel as their home country on their passports. In...
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ISRAEL TO CHANGE NAME OF JERUSALEM TO…
by Gidon Ben-Zvi As the United States Supreme Court considers Jerusalem’s status on US passports, the Israeli government is seeking to deflate the negative connotations long associated with its...
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? An Israeli’s Letter to his American Family
Below is a letter I sent to my concerned family in response to the latest terror wave gripping Israel. Hey all,It’s gotten increasingly tense around here. Still, we go about our daily lives: working,...
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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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