Time Running Out for “The Clock”
"The Clock" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem closes this weekend It’s hard to know exactly how to describe “The Clock,” Christian Marclay’s award winning art installation, which is currently on...
View ArticleSunk Costs on the Road to Tel Aviv
Traffic along the Ayalon Highway The evening was intended to be a gala celebration of the partnership between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. 400 Angelenos, in Israel on a Federation mission, along with...
View ArticleREM returns to Israel in the form of Robyn Hitchcock
Peter Buck and Robyn Hitchcock on the left In 1995, I got fired from a job. It was the first job I’d had in Israel and the first time I’d ever been fired from anything. Suffice it to say I was pretty...
View ArticleSrugim Co-Creator Tells All in Jerusalem Lecture
Poster advertising Laizy's appearance in Jerusalem For its three season run, I was hooked on the Israeli TV drama Srugim. The program told the tale of four religious (and one formerly religious) young...
View ArticleBuses Here and There
I grew up in a small suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area with no public transportation. This was tough because I have always been fascinated (my family would say obsessed) by buses, trams, trains and...
View ArticlePink Floyd Comes to Jerusalem
It was just like being at a Pink Floyd concert…maybe even better. At least that was how I felt walking out of the “Echoes” show at Jerusalem’s Zappa Club on Thursday night. Echoes is an Israeli Pink...
View ArticleTop zingers from this year’s Comedy for Koby
Comedy for Koby rolled into Jerusalem this week and my wife and I were there, along with our three kids, who we treated to their first live comedy show as a Hanukah gift. (Think of it as guffaws...
View ArticleThe Case for Boredom
When was the last time you were bored? Think about it…what do you do if you have nothing of great importance to do – say, you’re standing in a line at the pharmacy and there are three people ahead of...
View ArticleThe women of Jacob’s Ladder: indie artists rock the Sea of Galilee
The 41st annual Jacob’s Ladder music festival, which was held on the Sea of Galilee last weekend, was characterized by two surprises: the event’s first-ever thunderstorm, which turned the end of the...
View ArticleAre we on the brink of a smartphone-induced mental-health crisis?
Israeli rocker Shalom Hanoch was at his best. Performing in an intimate concert at the state-of-the-art theater at the Elma Luxury Arts Complex in Zichron Yaakov, Hanoch crooned for over two hours,...
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