another world

My friends at the Sukkot dinner tonight were still astonished that I’d simply gone to Bethlehem yesterday. They didn’t know you could do that. And unplanned, too. “She just took a taxi there…” Most lasting image of the trip: Beit Jala, the walls… All walls throughout the world draw posters to them like magnets. Therefore, Continue reading another world

Shakespeare

… is the name of the restaurant here in Jerusalem that I just had dinner at. Good casual place, right here in the Bakah section. The menu is in English as well as Hebrew. As a matter of fact, the street signs are usually in three languages: Hebrew, Arabic, and English. They have big signs Continue reading Shakespeare

Several days, one entry

OK, you try to find an internet hookup in the hills of Galilee. This weekend was not just a retreat to the hills overlooking the Sea of G, but my first ever Yom Kippur.

Evening at shul

7:43:10 PM I sit here on the floor of the main sanctuary at the Stephen S. Wise temple in Los Angeles, waiting for Rabbi M to start talking. Just had dinner with a few of the people from the temple — good looking dinner, wish I’d been hungry. Now the talk. Surprise overflow of people Continue reading Evening at shul