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Bnei Yehuda: “Queen of the Neighborhood”
Last night I attended a Bnei Yehuda-Maccabi Tel Aviv football game, one of the first of Bnei Yehuda’s season. Bnei Yehuda is one of 16 football teams that make up the Israeli Premier League, and the...
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November rains: flooding the camps, and Facebook, with distress
Yesterday afternoon I stopped by Gan HaTikva (the little park in HaTikva) to visit with the tent dwellers/protesters/homeless, now my friends, and deliver photographs I took of them a few weeks ago...
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My last week: closing doors but keeping hearts open
"Dance your emptiness out" Two birds in the hand... beautiful new graffiti at a neighborhood construction site. Monday morning. I leave Israel in 7 days. It’s hard to believe that I can count the...
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Goodbye: edible expressions of love before leaving
From here on out, it’s all goodbyes. It’s been pouring rain all day every day this week — normally a welcomed rarity in this dry land, but right now, for me, only adding cold, gray drama to my...
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Gifts to Leave by: material reminders and emotional remains
I write this from a window seat on a Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 767, now six hours away from Kiev where we took off, and still four hours away from New York, where we’ll land. There is no visual or...
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A period of adjustment
As I transition back to New York City, emotionally, physically, socially, and culturally, I will continue to post about my experience in Israel and process my journey into this next phase of life and...
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In review: photo stream
While I manage the apartment project I mentioned below, I will continue to post photos from my research year to offer you snapshots of the time and experience. Two story lines will thus now occupy this...
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Building Lives
My documentation of the apartments in my building begins here. I grew up in this seven-story apartment building that was built in 1892. All our neighbors saw my mother pregnant with my sister, and then...
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Sketching a life in frames: image and memory on railroad apartment walls
[Note: You may click on any photo to enlarge it, twice.] This apartment is amazing. In this space, live an artist and a professor. The walls are covered with line drawings and oil paintings by the...
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A New York City nook
This week I moved into a Brooklyn sublet. My good friend started a bed & breakfast in Downtown Brooklyn (3B Bed&Breakfast) with a few friends a couple years ago, and now they live in and run it...
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