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 5, the election
early morning, may 18, 1999 rabin square, tel aviv, post election day abraham, isaac, moses, david, solomon, assyria, babylonia, talmud, koran, mohammed, north africa, moors, spain, sephardim, france, italy, germany, poland, ashkenazi, russia, diaspora, america, palestine, israel — everything exists…
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 25, tel aviv take two – synchronicity, violence, & facades
june 28 – july 4, 1999 tel aviv wow. i’m chillin’ in my own apartment in neve tzedek, the formerly old world, yemenite, now trendy, tel aviv neighborhood between the bright lights of downtown and jaffa, just about three blocks…
Middle East, 1999, chapter 26, full circle
july 4, 1999 tel aviv – los angeles it’s my last day in tel aviv. my last day in israel. my last day in the mideast. i’m going home. sad. i stick to my routine – do nothing new or…