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....

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...

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...

Much was written about the journey to Ithaka; hell, Homer even came up with a complete odyssey... Yet like with any other journey, so...

A sailboat, by definition, is a floating promise. Sailboats come complete with horizons full of promise and shrouded in mystery. As a...

When you spend enough time roaming the heavens, you learn that storms are a local phenomenon in the geographical domain. You move in...

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...

Seeing yourself through the eyes of someone else is always a startling experience. Especially if you are being watched at 40,000 feet by...

When I graduated from flight school, I was given a book called Thud Ridge—an account of the experiences of Col. Jack Broughton, commander...

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...

I was quite a delinquent student. Since I went to Alliance, one of my main fields of delinquency was French. Mrs. Goren was a small...

Truth about sailing Robert M. Pirsig author of "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance," passed away recently. His philosophy took him...

A quick startup “how-to” guide takeoff on the Sunscreen song. My words and voice. Animation by the incredibly talented Assaf Yogev and...

Chapter 1 - Startup catch 22 Chapter 2 - The day the twins fell Chapter 3 - (Not) Acquired by Microsoft Chapter 4 - Francois the French...

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...