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Istanbul has been blessed with a unique geography. It is for this reason that a neighborhood appearing no larger than a pin on the map will reveal itself as a sprawling snarl of intricate lanes and…
Scholars say the cultivated olive originated in Asia Minor and the Mediterranean lands, including the Land of Israel.
In the Bible, the olive is first…
Before your plane to Israel departs, recite T’fillat Haderekh, “Prayer for a Safe Journey […].” Then, during the flight, read the following.
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer was a weekly comic strip that appeared in the Forward and other newspapers beginning in 1988. Ben Katchor also published what he calls “picture stories” in book…
I spent five years at “Lechem Erez” in Herzliya. During those years, we created at “Lechem Erez” a simple cuisine inclined to use herbs and dwarf leaves, balady vegetables and local fruits, fresh meat…
There’s an old joke that’s told about a Martian who accidentally crashes his spaceship on the streets of New York. In search of a new set of tires for his craft, he happens to pass a bagel shop…
Food was important not just as a means of survival, but also because, as Ma repeatedly told me, “it’s made with love that makes it taste so good.” As a toddler, perched on a chair, I watched each step…
We eat to live. The world is one vast dining room, in which each living thing both consumes and is consumed, in infinite cycles. Everything alive is a potential foodstuff. Big…
Citizens of Israel, today, at around 2 p.m., the armies of Egypt and Syria launched an attack against Israel. They carried out a series of attacks from the air, with armor and artillery, in Sinai and…
Slingers attacking Lachish, 701 BCE, from Assyrian relief in the Nineveh palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE). Members of the Assyrian army are depicted with slingstones piled at their feet…
