The front page of the New York Times again features refugees. Children looking out the window of a van, with big frightened eyes, with no curiosity, only pain. How many more times do we need to see these pictures, how many times have we seen the same eyes looking at us, as if saying “do not avert your eyes, you were us, you could again be us.” …
The concept of a geodesic dome and its contribution to 20th-century architecture was attributed to Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)…
Karola Siegel was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1928, an only child to middle-class Orthodox Jewish parents. She describes her childhood as happy with a lot of friends both from the Jewish school and from the gentile neighbors…
While most Israelis now recognize the Russian Novigod holiday, over 70% still do not see it as part of Israeli culture. The large number of people who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union now constitute roughly 20% of the population.
Books and music are both my and my husband’s passions. Even when we were courting, the store fronts that attracted us were those of bookstores and record shops. Neither of us had much money to spend, but the temptation overtook us when a bookstore was open, and it was seldom that we walked out without purchasing at least one or two volumes…
The unbelievable happened: I became an octogenarian. Yesterday felt the same as every other day, and today did not feel any different. However, I observed that people look at me with a certain reverence that was not there yesterday. Do I really deserve that reverence?