Bold Red in the White City

In the last three days, I’ve seen an ancient Roman-era wine press at the Eretz Israel Museum, and I’ve had the 2008 vintage of the currently aging-in-barrel Saslove Cabernet and...   Read more

I really love Yafo – or Jaffa, as it’s also called, but that spelling just brings to mind the plastic snap-together crates that constituted “furniture” in my early...   Read more

When I told people TMS and I were moving to Israel for a while, people talked about the beaches, the historic sites, dealing with the crazy driving, and, of course, be careful near that...   Read more

Stateside, December (at least in recent memory) is a blur of holiday parties, shopping for a range of friends and relatives with wide tastes and needs, food and sweets everywhere, and a mad...   Read more

(All: This post is quite long – we tried to capture the experience along with a bit of the history. Links are mostly to our photos, and the entire collection is here.) Let me preface...   Read more

    (The holidays were a blur – we’ll get the final Bethlehem installment up soon, but this was due last week! thanks, the mgmt) And so, it begins. TMS and I sometimes...   Read more