Yesh Matsav

Here’s my latest review: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220526711485&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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During the month of August days are better spent inside. But at night, when the heat dies down a bit, Jerusalem is lovely. Devorah and I walked from her place on Mendele Mocher Sefarim Street (where I have been staying on and off for the last two weeks) to the German Colony, and on our […]

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On Friday I returned to Tel Aviv after 17 hours or so of traveling through four different airports – Dhaka – Doha, Doha – Amman, Amman – Tel Aviv. It’s not easy to get places in the Muslim world directly from Israel, or the other way around. I brought two bags with me – one […]

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This debut post is being typed from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, where I have been for the last 9 days conducting a labor assessment for USAID, the American government’s development agency. Our specific task is somewhat technical, but I have been visiting with many organizations and people, including groups of workers, many of whom […]

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Gentrification has no national borders.  We arrived a few days ago to Tel Aviv where we will be living for the next year and are spending the first week with our good friends Yofi and Zohar and their cat Cato. The apartment where they live sits half a block from Shuk Ha’Carmel, the main market […]

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