Is there a god above?
The time is three pm on a Friday afternoon. The place is the Austrian hostel hanging above the Via Dolorosa in the old city of Jerusalem....
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Oct 29, 20214 min read
Lord of your Ring
It was an ordinary winter morning, and I was driving my daughter Noam to school in the pouring rain. Traffic was slow, and I was making a...
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Oct 25, 20212 min read
Let my lion go
I have a neighbor in my building. Good man. Really good man. He knows he is a good man, good and moral. It is very important for him that...
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Oct 22, 20215 min read
Feminism Ithaka style
Much was written about the journey to Ithaka; hell, Homer even came up with a complete odyssey... Yet like with any other journey, so...
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Oct 16, 20211 min read
Under sail
A sailboat, by definition, is a floating promise. Sailboats come complete with horizons full of promise and shrouded in mystery. As a...
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Oct 13, 20211 min read
A blue horizon
When you spend enough time roaming the heavens, you learn that storms are a local phenomenon in the geographical domain. You move in...
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Oct 10, 20212 min read
A friend is a friend
I went to Genoa, Italy, over the weekend to visit an old friend. It so happens that this exact weekend was his holiday. I did not think...
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Oct 1, 20213 min read
Annotated heavens
Seeing yourself through the eyes of someone else is always a startling experience. Especially if you are being watched at 40,000 feet by...
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Sep 26, 20213 min read
The book that saved my life
When I graduated from flight school, I was given a book called Thud Ridge—an account of the experiences of Col. Jack Broughton, commander...
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Sep 26, 20212 min read
It's all in the banana
You don't know José. I chose him out of a host of "guides," stalking tourists outside hotels in Havana for his complete and utter...
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Apr 30, 20211 min read
Sailing in our time
Truth about sailing Robert M. Pirsig author of "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance," passed away recently. His philosophy took him...
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Apr 23, 20212 min read
Get Funded
A quick startup “how-to” guide takeoff on the Sunscreen song. My words and voice. Animation by the incredibly talented Assaf Yogev and...
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Oct 1, 20201 min read
The Interwise Story
Chapter 1 - Startup catch 22 Chapter 2 - The day the twins fell Chapter 3 - (Not) Acquired by Microsoft Chapter 4 - Francois the French...
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A corrective journey
Noah has four sisters and one Mom. The boy is surrounded by women. Even the dog is a bitch. I took him to Rodos for the weekend to...
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