Wars are stupid and cruel, yet sometimes, so it would seem, inevitable. On 25 April we commemorated Remembrance Day (Yom Hazikaron) for isra...

When a famous, admired person (a celebrity) dies, people feel sadness coupled with envy. Sadness -  because  when he/she dies it is  as if a...

Usually, I'm not eager to go  on a cruise, as I might get sea sick . While on a bus or train I refrain from reading, as I might get a fe...

  There's a dog statue near the entrance of a Vetcenter in an adjacent town. Whenever I'm around,  I stop to have a look at it. It i...

  She's beautiful, bright (physicist researcher at Weizmann Institute, Israel, and at Cern accelerator project, Switzerland), basketball...

  Kiwi is an exotic, tasty fruit, packed with vitamin C and antioxidants. I like the flavor and its texture. The point is it doesn't lik...

L ately, I've been busy with my desktop computer. Its internal DVR wasn't working, so I had to take the whole thing to the Lab. In o...

  In  Hebrew, the word 'balagan' means mess, chaos, disorder.  There's controversy about the word's origin (Russia? Turkey?....

The other day, I bought a few small items and got unpleasantly surprised by the price I had to pay.  It added to my gloomy mood I was in sin...

On  Sunday, we were told a storm named Barbara was on its way  from Greece to Israel, and will hit us on Monday morning.   In the meantime, ...

  I've always considered climate as an important factor that affects one's well-being and quality of life. (  long before the discus...

No bones, no skulls, no skeletons, no pottery, but silk and cotton . A few hundred pieces of exotic textile from 1300 years ago, has been ...

  One of the saddest things we witness in our third age is disappearance of familiar faces of friends, neighbors, acquaintences. Some die, s...

  Urban renewal is a widely discussed and controversial program. It is a process intended to improve specific areas of a city. There are sev...

I started the new year with  listening to some of Maria Callas' opera performances. Her voice was perhaps, not the greatest, but her sta...