Tel aviv, may 13, 1999 Hello american pig capitalist swine (and you euro pigs too)!! ooops, just kidding. i thought i was back in jerusalem, having cute little, trouble-eyed palestinian kids slam into me while walking through the arab quarter,…
Middle East, 1999, chapter 3, tel aviv – a far cry from jerusalem
May 16, 1999 Tel aviv There’s no place better in all of israel to escape the pressure and omnipresence of fanatical religion than its cultural and feel good capital, tel aviv. trendy sheinkin street – where every hipster, ex-pat, filmmaker…
Middle East, 1999, chapter 6, the chosen people
may 16-19, 1999 tel aviv back in tel aviv, benny and i take a much needed break from each other, and i shuttle myself around between “servas” hosts. i find myself in the university suburb of ramat aviv with a…
Middle East, 1999, chapter 8, a little (feminist) reflection
may 24, 1999 haifa the train north from tel aviv stops abruptly – like many things in israel – blunt, abrupt – and i am in haifa. it’s over 100 degrees in the shade (fahrenheit), but once again i am…
Middle East, 1999, chapter 16, alex to jerusalem, the history of the tower of david
june 12, 1999 alexandria, egypt it’s 4:30 in the morning. the sky is pitch black. i’m at the main bus station in alexandria. i have twenty four hours to make it back to jerusalem for lihran morav’s bar mitzvah. i…
Middle East, 1999, chapter 19, “tzipperese” at the mitzpeh amuka
june 18-22, 1999 mitzpeh amuka the next day, back on my own two feet again without the rental car, i’m driven by eran up over the mountain – to the mitzpeh amuka to visit my “old friend” from svat, moshe…