Dateline Jerusalem — Next week is Pesach (or Passover), the season of our freedom, when Jews all over the world gather at the Seder table with family and friends to commemorate the Exodus, the time when the oppressed Hebrew slaves (Jews) followed Moses out of Egypt to the Promised Land of Israel.

Dateline Jerusalem — I used to think everyone in Israel knew me.

Dateline Jerusalem — I always seem to set off alarms. This morning when I entered the building where I work, the metal clasps on my jacket set off the alarm when I went through the metal detector.

Dateline Jerusalem — It has been raining non-stop for five days with hail, thunder, lightning and flooding, the biggest storm in five years.

Dateline Jerusalem — I definitely do not take after my mathematician father.

Dateline Jerusalem — My birthday was Monday.

Dateline Jerusalem — American words are very much a part of Israeli society. They are often names of popular businesses or they are adopted into the modern Hebrew language and slang of the country.

Dateline Jerusalem — Rehovot, Israel, is known as the “City of Science and Culture,” home to the internationally acclaimed Weizmann Institute of Science, Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture, and Hebrew University Medical School's teaching hospital, Kaplan Hospital.

Dateline Jerusalem — Happy New Year!

No, I haven't lost my mind.

Dateline Jerusalem — The Haitian earthquake disaster hits too close to home for Californians. Most of the state lives close to, or on, the San Andreas fault, long overdue for a major eruption greater than that which just occurred in Haiti. Residents from other states often joke about California splitting in half and falling into the Pacific Ocean. Yet, the … Read More