“Hey, wanna come harvest some grapes?” my Rabbi called to ask me yesterday morning. I didn’t even know the man had a vineyard. Apparently he’s been growing grapes and making...
Author - Laya Millman
More curious attempts at peace
11 cyclists, 1 photographer and a driver arrived at the Jaffa Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem today, having biked from Venice…for peace. These buff Italians brave cyclists participating in...
and it makes me wonder…
Bad day for the Jews yesterday. CK called me here in Jerusalem from Canada to tell me about a bombing an hour away. In two years here, I still haven’t learned how to deal with such news. the...
Jewish girls gone ‘wild’
Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, performance art headed by one “Goddess Perlman” and featuring a rotating revue of scantily clad performers is meant to be “a forum to expose —...
The Underwear Bomber
At the Erez crossing in Gaza this morning a man was stopped while trying to enter Israel with explosives stitched into his underwear, the thought being that the area would not be searched. Could this...
Lord, get me High
It has been brought to my attention by a friend outside of Israel that some of the ‘goings on’ that are taken for normal here are, in fact, noteworthy. Specifically, Orthodox Jews who...