Blog entries 2015

I first saw the spanking new administrative buildings for the Gaza Community Mental Health Program in 2005; ten years later there is a rusty shabbiness… Read More »March 22, 2015 part two, No time to mourn

The drive to Erez checkpoint is deceptively bucolic as the rain trickles through lush rolling farmland, vineyards, fruit trees, wineries reminiscent of the valleys of… Read More »March 22, 2015 part one, Mish mushkela, No problem

The Shabbat streets are quiet and a cool cloudy day soon punctuated by a more serious rain greets me and my colleague as we take… Read More »March 21, 2015, History in the hills: what keeps me up at night

Friday is a get-over-jet-lag schmooze-with-friends-and-colleagues kind of day, much of it spent in a lovely modern apartment in the Germany Colony, a neighborhood in southwest… Read More »March 20, 2015, Schmoozing East Jerusalem style

Two weeks ago when the permit to Gaza finally arrived the travel nightmares began, lost luggage, harsh Israeli interrogators, forgetting a flight, the neurotic pulsations… Read More »March 19, 2015, Guilty as charged: I did once have a Jawal Card.

I often encounter some metaphorical weirdness on my flights to Israel, and, true to form, on my layover in Toronto, my flight leaves from gate… Read More »Welcome to Israel, Bien Venue