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 […]

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 […]

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 charge for […]

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 […]