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Recent Blogs

My favourite thing to do after a long week is hang out at my parents’ house. This week I discovered that in Israel, hanging out at someone else’s parents’ house is similarly good...
Yesterday, I was enjoying a pleasant walk along Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. It was sunny and hot. (It's always sunny and hot.) The whole city was outside it seemed, browsing...
While reading over my past blogs the other day, I realized that if one were to rely exclusively on what I’ve written, it would seem that all I am doing here is staring at people,...
Every language has a smattering of words, each of which by itself describes a complex state of affairs very well, and very precisely. When translated, it takes the speaker a...
To my mind, there are two superior ways to discover a city. You can walk around it; or, it can walk around you. Currently, I’m taking in all that option #2 has to offer. It’s...

Recent Articles

By Justine Connelly In early July, it was soup with strawberries from Brooklands Farm. Later in the month, Edith was anticipating the arrival of the humble potato, to be dressed...
The helicopter turns over Jerusalem toward the Mediterranean. The pilot speaks a few hurried sentences in Hebrew. The guide answers, equally hurried. I lose interest in the...
By Justine Connelly On August 14, 2003, the northeastern U.S., midwest, and Ontario went dark after a massive, cascading power outage. I remember going for a walk with my father...
by Justine Connelly Considering it holds within its stone walls the final four Stations of the Cross — including the Tomb of Christ — the entrance to the Church of the Holy...
by Kristine Gariepy I can remember back two and a half years ago when I couldn’t stay awake reading my American history textbook. No, it wasn’t boring (actually, reading about the...

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