I wanted to tour my home town of Eilat even before the pandemic: hire a car and guide, see recent changes and learn something new. For instance, closing Eilat's airport in 2019 changed travel patterns {no more traffic-circle bottlenecks on Passover and Succoth}, and the 2020 storm altered land and sea, especially around Coral Beach. The Covid-19 lo...

BIRTHSOn your great granddaughterJoan BrozinOn your great grandchildren (triplets)Edith DinarBAR MITZVAHSOn your grandsonBarbara and Stephen KlinerBIRTHDAYSJoan Brozin | 80thBlanche Blumberg | 80thEdith Dinar | 91stLeah Hyman | 95thENGAGEMENTSOn your daughterPamela Peled, Sidelle to Ehud OllechLiz Trakeniski, on Sharon to OrianMARRIAGESOn your sonB...

Variation on a Classic - Italian Caprese Salad  With the abundance of delicious cherry tomatoes in Israel (where they were originally developed) you'll find lots of salads that include them.  INGREDIENTS 1 kilo cherry tomatoes, assorted colors, halved lengthwise Coarse salt Freshly ground black pepper ¾ cup Kalamata olives ¼ cup good oliv...

I am proud to announce that my sister Ruth Berman (née Aronson) has been awarded the 2022 Israel Prize in Hebrew and General Linguistics. The prize has been awarded for her groundbreaking research in Modern Hebrew (in the domains of morphology, lexicon, syntax, and discourse), in first language acquisition, and later school-age language development...

"Where were you yesterday?" I was asked that by several synagogue "regulars" as soon as I showed up for Sunday morning minyan. "I went to the Sephardi synagogue on my street," I replied. This exchange requires an explanation. The Shabbat in question was especially rainy. The rain was coming down in torrents during the time of Shabbat morning servic...