The 25 hours of fasting (from Friday at 18 p.m. till Saturday 19 p.m.) are over.  As I advance in age, the anual fast of Yom Kippur (the ...

Summer is over, and with it are its various treats we've become used to. Every year, in summer , the big municipalities of many pla...

In Israel, when visiting the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem, people insert a wish note addressed to God, in the cracks between t...

We already know  by now that the climate is not going to have any mercy on us.  Actually, we've known that for at least two de...

Lions have been for centuries a symbol of strength, security, protection, justice, good luck, you name it. The city center of So...

* Guam , the recent hot news item, is a small, exotic island in the North Pacific Ocean, home to some 160 thousand citizens. Its indig...

Hidden gem - that's what they call the little reddish brick circular church St. George (Sveti Georgi) in Sofia. Hidden, because i...

While it may not have the charm of Paris or the energy of Rome - Sofia (Bulgaria's capital city) does have a few attractions wort...

* Qatar, an arab peninsular country in the Middle East, has recently become a Hot item in the news. Its neighbours: Saudi Arabia, Eg...

The modest fountain in the above picture is not  placed, as most of the traditional ones, in the middle of a town square. This f...