Jaffa

My friends Chaya and Azriel needed to go to Yafo (now practically a suburb of Tel Aviv) today. In a few days, Chaya and Mordechai will move there, to an old red stucco house on the corner of a street a block from the ocean. As of today, the house is full of plaster dust, Continue reading Jaffa

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

Saturday Night

Saturday night in front of the ice cream store was crowded — not just with people but with dogs. Everyone must take their dog out walking on Saturdays, I guess. I don’t know these things because my dog is still too unmanageable to take her out just for fun. The other dogs would terrify her, Continue reading Saturday Night