An Elvis-Sized Hangover

November 9, 2004

If this story seems a little bleary, it’s because I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep last night. Seems we were locked out of our house. By our kids. Mabye it was our own fault. My wife Jody and I decided a few months ago that the kids were old enough to stay home […]

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Doing the Para-Macarena

November 4, 2004

Twenty-two years ago, on my birthday, I jumped out of an airplane. How I got up the courage, I still don’t know, but I have had nightmares about it ever since. It wasn’t the freefall to earth that got me: I had a parachute on after all and it was hooked to the plane so […]

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Wrong Thong (or Why God Made Men Nearsighted)

October 28, 2004

Sometimes you just need to get away. That’s how we’d been feeling after planning and executing three intense weeks of family activities centered on thirteen-year-old Amir’s bar mitzvah this past summer. All the details, the organizing, the meals and parties had taken their toll and we were just plain pooped. That’s how we found ourselves […]

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Save My Spot

October 20, 2004

He looked like a regular guy. His short cropped hair, half frame wire glasses, t-shirt (not too designer, not too sloppy) and well worn sandals all suggested a cafe patron with at least a moderately worldly frame of reference. So when he asked Jody to “save his spot” at the Rami Levy supermarket checkout line, […]

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Second Exodus

October 13, 2004

I’ve never visited the Sinai. And now I fear I never will. The nearly simultaneous bombings that killed 33 last week at the Taba Hilton and the beaches at Ras al-Satan delivered destruction to a destination regarded by many Israelis as a refuge, an oasis in the desert where one could get away from the […]

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Rock Hashana

September 20, 2004

Every family has its disagreements. Especially when there are teenagers around. Some are relatively simple and generally mundane. Like: Should a thirteen-year-old have an enforced bedtime? Or: Can he play on his new laptop whenever he wants? Others, though, are more spiritually profound. The burning question in our house at this time of year is: […]

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A Few Words About Our Cousin Marla

August 25, 2002

Our cousin Marla came into our lives only two years ago when she arrived in Israel to study at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. But as soon as we found each other, she became a close part of our family in Jerusalem. We both had very little family here, and so finding each other […]

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