I hadn’t planned on another post so soon. But the news these past few days has, once more, cast the tiny nation of Israel front and center on the world stage, so I just can’t…
In my last blog post I wrote about arriving in Jordan, where I promptly proceeded to romp around in the desert. Although it was a lot less like the Lawrence of Arabia experience I’d anticipated,…
A taxi dropped us off a few minutes before midday at the Yitzchak Rabin border crossing, just to the north of Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city. There we joined a long queue waiting to have…
Question: how do you explain the Middle East conflict to kids? This past week I have been visiting Israel with my children. It is their first visit to the country of my birth, so we…
I woke this morning to the incredibly sad news of the passing of Shimon Peres, one of Israel’s founding fathers. By any measure he was an extraordinary and gifted man, and one who I was…
Warning: Another blog post that is not about travel, but unashamedly about American politics (kind of). *** An exceedingly funny friend of mine from high-school days in Australia, who now lives near New York,…
A few months ago I visited Morocco. I had two weeks to fill in between finishing one job in London and starting another job in the Bahamas. It was my third trip to Morocco, which…
In my last post I wrote about the war in Gaza, and how what is happening there should be seen as a sideshow in a much broader global clash, that increasingly seeks to pit “Us” (secular…
I was recently in Los Angeles. It is summer there, so like a real Angeleno I decided to spend my time at the beach. Specifically at Venice, set up as an independent town in 1905…
About two months ago I visited New York, to attend a friend’s wedding. My friend lives in Brooklyn, and the wedding was held in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. So it made sense that I should…
