I’m writing this with the taste of a three-course two-Michelin-stars restaurant meal in my mouth, as I’m contemplating whether I should have a glass of water (cos I’m thirsty) or would that numb the taste. The mentioned restaurant is Fischers Fritz which remains the only current Berlin establishment to hold the accolade of two Michelin [...]

I don’t see in this blog an opportunity for book critique just as I don’t consider myself a critic, however, this specific book has a special corner in my heart and having just finished reading it, I feel I wanna say some things about it, to better understand it myself, more than anything else. I [...]

Before leaving Israel I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to write for Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper in a column called “Foreign Language”; a short summary of a book which hasn’t been translated into Hebrew yet. I chose “Brief an D – Geschichte einer Liebe” by André Gorz, the first book I ever read in [...]

Yesterday on the U-Bahn I made my comeback to Berlin. I often wonder what this term means if you’re not a former celebrity; comeback to where? For whom? Have you been there before so intensely that your absence was noticed and now your return should be a public event? After spending almost four months in [...]

After dinner we retired to the hotel lobby, descendants of Sarah and descendants of Hagar, separately. Not before long, a deck of TAKI – the all-too-familiar Israeli card game in an adorned metal case – was pulled out of someone’s bag, as if out of our collective Israeli childhood memories. With “blue and white” TAKI [...]

The following short story, or should I say report, was recently published in the latest issue of the DAAD Letter magazine which was sent to you. For those of you who missed it, here it is again, decorated with the beautiful drawings of Lihie Aimée Jacob, and broken into several fragments cuz the damn thing’s [...]

I was born in Rechovot on the 24th of April 1980. When my mother arrived at the hospital her chart read: arrived at 7:00am, born at 6:55am. I was in a hurry – had to see the world. That concludes my being ahead of time. I took my time taking my first steps (at the [...]

Disappointment is the hiatus between what you had hoped or wished for and what you actually got. It’s not what you got itself that upsets you but rather the absence of what you have perceived in your mind’s eye. If feelings were math then disappointment would be the delta of H(ope) minus X, not the [...]

Why haven’t I danced in 13 years – not in clubs of course, but in a dance company? Perhaps first I should look into why have I danced for 6 years in the dance company of my small town in Israel: I wanted to dance like Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing and I wanted to [...]

When traveling back home for the first time you feel like you’re leading a double life: you find everything exactly as you left it, minus an old friend who passed away; plus a new nephew who was born. Your friends are still your friends, only somewhat happier to see you; your family can still donate [...]