The value of speech

Economist.com | The European Union In central Europe, as in much of the world, knowledge of English has become a basic skill of modern life comparable with the ability to drive a car or use a personal computer. It would be too easy to say how this phenomenon is bad. After all, we have the Continue reading The value of speech

happiness

What you do is fling yourself down, face up, on the spinning earth beneath you and gaze up to the good green sky above, and shout with no words. That is happiness.

My tallit

I got my tallit in Jerusalem, in Mea Shearim. Mea Shearim is the neighborhood where I first set foot in Jerusalem, and those of you who know Jerusalem can give a small shudder here. For those of you who don’t know the city: Mea Shearim is the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, just outside the old city. They Continue reading My tallit