Apologies for the delay in posting; this was due to circumstances far beyond my control. Whew. Okay. A moment before the Purim holiday ends, let’s take a look at days gone by, in particular the Adloyada parade. “Adloyada” is a bastardization of the phrase “ad lo yada” o...

Back in the early Sixties, most kids’ mothers wore frilly cocktail aprons to entertain. Not my Israeli mother. Hers looked like this. And her miniskirts and pantsuits looked like this. My mother, a singer of international folksongs, had a great collection of gowns. Many were created at Esther ...

Anhedonia is “an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events� and in addition to being the working title for Wood Allen’s “Annie Hall� - it also describes a feeling Israelis wrestle with on a daily basis. Nissan Shor, is the author of the new book “Dancing With...

Arik Einstein turned 70 this week. Were it not for the war, this would have been front page news. Not only because it is an occasion for celebration but because in this land of the perpetual diminutive, where everyone goes by their childhood nickname, people find it hard to believe that Arik - singe...