Tip of the Tongue

  [Sacre-Coeur - Paris*] A few weeks ago, I wrote a post expressing my anxieties about revisiting Paris after so many years. Well, having re...

  [Paris roofs*] Travelling to an unknown location is exciting, at least for some people. The prospect of encountering a new culture, hearin...

To begin, I was a classic “wandering Jew”.  My relatives from at least two generations took their legs and immigrated to a different countr...

One of Orwell’s most quoted lines, from Animal Farm , refers to the fact that while everybody is created equal, some are more equal than ot...

A man’s (or a woman’s) house is his castle, or so they say.  It can also be his status symbol, social hall or just dormitory, all depending...

For a Jew or anybody with sense of history, the last year culminating in the events in Paris this month has been traumatic.  From the repor...

Being a Jew in the United States, France, and Israel are distinctly different experiences and something that I have experienced.  During th...

The age of the Internet has brought countless benefits, including almost instant access to facts and efficient comparison shopping, to name...

As a stereotypical wandering Jew, I have been privileged to experience many types and descriptions of weather in my life.  On a linguistic...

Street names are culturally specific.  Some countries treat their streets as long strips of asphalt while others give them much more histo...