Went today with Maya to the train station to buy tickets. I could have gone on my own, but I wanted it to be a moment that we both remember, that 20 years from now she would be able to tell her friends that she was a part of her father’s groundbreaking journalistic voyage. We [...]
Archive for November, 2009
In the line of soda
Posted in Germans and food, ignorance on November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The strong Jew
Posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Yuri Foreman became a world champion in boxing. Foreman, a Russian-Jew left Israel over a decade ago to pursue his dream in boxing. Now he is a champion, and soon he will become a Rabbi. I met Foreman nine years ago and wrote this story: COACH FANATIC By Ze’ev [...]
Berlin, 20 years after
Posted in Germans and food on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was the kind of weekend that you don’t book any ski vacation for. First our daughter got a very bad stomach bug from her Kita. It was so bad my wife started bugging me that we might need to go to the hospital and check it out, to make sure it wasn’t the Swine [...]
lessons from the camp
Posted in hypocrites, the situation on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we visited Israel the last time (it was October, 31 degrees and everyone was at the beach–no wonder all three religions are willing to kill for this place), we landed very early in the morning. Another three or four flights came with us, one of them carried young students returning from a concentration camp [...]
