This post is dedicated to Nominally Challenged, as promised, for providing inspiration. Poetry banners on Rothschild Boulevard For the third year in a row, the municipality of Tel Aviv has mounted Poetry for the Road (Hebrew link; doesn't work in Firefox). Excerpts from poems in Hebrew, Arabic and French have been emblazoned on colourful banners [...]

I found the hilarious video below on Jeha's blog. I apologize to all those who are not familiar with the major players in the Middle Eastern Mental Asylum, 'cause you'll probably feel left out of the joke. For residents and followers of events in the asylum, though, do remove all beverages from the vicinity of [...]

Toward the middle of the Second Lebanon War, I walked into my local greengrocer and found the proprietor in the middle of a shouting match with one of the guys in the neighbourhood. My greengrocer is a bit of an anomaly  – he's a Mizrachi (Jews with ethnic roots in the Middle East) who is [...]

In the ongoing – and often ham fisted – attempts to humanize the faces behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary director Yael Luttwak has come up with a rather unique idea: take a cross-section of Israeli and Palestinian women, put them on a diet program together, and watch what happens. The film is called A Slim [...]

David Grossman at Levontin 7 This past Friday afternoon David Grossman, one of Israel's best-known authors, read some of his poems about love to a small audience at Levontin 7, a performance space in Tel Aviv. Since his son, Uri, was killed in Lebanon during the last days of the war last summer, he has [...]