JERUSALEM: Dalal rested in her father's lap. She smiled but only said one word, ana, “I” in Arabic — her entire vocabulary at the age of three and a half. My friend, Dr. Eliezer Be'eri, carefully felt her feet and ran his hand over her back. “Can (...)
JERUSALEM: Dalal rested in her father's lap. She smiled but only said one word, ana, “I” in Arabic – her entire vocabulary at the age of three and a half. My friend Dr. Eliezer Be'eri, carefully felt her feet and ran his hand over her back. “Can she (...)
JERUSALEM: A neighbor in Jerusalem asked me to write to his American father-in-law, who has been showering him with emails attacking Barack Obama. At a local bakery, the owner suggested in a whisper that I might talk sense to the tourist proclaiming (...)
Yehiel and I met Elliott at the appliance repairman's shed on a side street in South Jerusalem.
Elliott Horowitz, a historian at Bar-Ilan University, had already paid for the almost-new washing machine, with cash that friends have pledged to (...)