“Brilliant! A cheap flight coming back on Saturday evening from Tel Aviv,” I unwittingly enthused. My Airbnb host cheerfully pointed out that this was because there is no public transport on a Saturday afternoon. Because of the Shabbat. And despite the Ashkenazi [I] and lo, I am part Ashkenazi – ask my DNA according to […]
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There are three religions associated with Jerusalem – Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Each of these has a physical quarter in the city. In my opinion, the fourth and much larger quarter split evenly over the old city is crass consumerism. My Road to Damascus Event The hawkers in Jerusalem have made me question my own
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My English brother from another mother uses Strava to record exercise activity. He’s into maps, and GPS tracking and routes and self-improvement and running and cycling. Anything I can do, he can do better as Irving Berlin never said. When we used to run together, he would always absent-mindedly run sideways when I wasn’t going
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