Tip of the Tongue

  I have no first-hand knowledge of England. My short jaunt to London during my tour of Europe some 45 years ago is irrelevant. On the other...

  In the last few months, I discovered a major change in the status of restaurants in northern Israel: almost all of them are closed on Shab...

  [cluttered desk] Some 40 years ago, I took the train to Rome after having spent a month in Germany. I vividly remember the feeling of chao...

  [blank menu*] Translators’ forums are filled with highly amusing menu translations from restaurants around the world. While linguists may ...

                                           (Eggplant and tahina as prepared by my wife) I just returned from a three-week trip to ...

Words are rather elusive objects. People tend to apply them in contexts so far from their origin that any connection becomes obscure. As a...

In Michael Crichton’s book Timeline , one character, Andr ė , decides to remain in the past, specifically the year 1357, because he fi...

Israel is a unique country in many ways, including typical behavior.   The following is a short list of rather commonplace phenomena that ...

The Galilee is the home of many cultures, interacting and even living together. These cultures include Jewish of all types, including Ashke...

My wife and I just returned from a week’s trip in Poland, taken for the purpose of my attending a Law and Language conference in Bialystok ...

Summer has arrived in Israel with all its attendant events.  These include summer camps, shopping in the mall, water parks and, gasp, weddi...

Translations without cultural explanation can be deceiving even for the casual tourist.  While food items may seem simple to guess or find ...