Tip of the Tongue

Alice, the speaker of the wonderful sentence “Words means what I want them to mean,” would feel at ease today in Israel.  After each and ev...

I recently translated some articles on Putin, the elected dictator of the Russian Federation.  It brought up two seemingly separate memorie...

Recently, I have spent time in the hospital with close family members suffering from UTI’s (Urinal Track Infection) in Israel and Californi...

During my just completed family visit to Los Angeles, I had the rare chance to spend many hours reading a book as I was sitting next to my ...

It is true that a rose is a rose is a rose, but why is it a rose? The answer to that is like Tolstoy’s description of an unhappy marriage: ...

I have lived for almost 30 years in Karmiel in the Galilee. A recent shopping trip brought into focus a major change in the area: it is bec...

Work is work, everywhere in the world.  For most people, it means showing up somewhere at a given time, fulfilling doing specified duties a...