The dry definition of a game is “a contest with rules to determine a winner”. I have developed a strange feeling that my dog, a small Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, is playing a continuous game with me. Indeed, sometimes she wins but most of the time I lose. The rules are simple. We go out [...]
As I was driving the car to my usual Friday morning supermarket visit, I was listening to the weekly culture program on the Israeli public radio station. It was raining cats and dogs, the puddles were large and murky. I usually don’t pay much attention to these programs, and resort to my MP3 [...]
In 1979, more than thirty years ago, I visited the United States of America for the first time. At seventeen, it was the first time ever out of my small Middle Eastern country.
In Israel, in 1979, the term “Customer Service” was not even phrased. I remember clearly that if bought something and it broke, you [...]
Thirteen years ago, to the day, a white Mazda pulled over next to a bus stop in the heart of Givatayim, a town across the river from Tel Aviv. A young man of thirty five stepped out of the car, greeted the young lady who was standing there, and opened the car door for her. [...]
I read my previous Happy New Year blessing and I realized that it may have been painfull, pessimistic, harsh. I decided to balance it with the New Year blessing my wife had sent to her fellow teachers at Ort Hashomron high school of Binyamina. You will have to admit that her blessing, like her personality, [...]
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