Alwayswriteagain: More Style than Substance!

Alwayswriteagain: More Style than Substance!: Not my usual style! Few regular readers skimming this short note will be surprised to learn that I was out of my depth trying to make sense ...

Alwayswriteagain: The Language of the #Metoomorphosis

Alwayswriteagain: The Language of the #Metoomorphosis: (With acknowledgement to Frank Kafka) Make no mistake: the day Harvey Weinstein woke up to discover he was a cockroach, we soon learned the...

Alwayswriteagain: Short Stories, Long!

Alwayswriteagain: Short Stories, Long!: New York-born Fred Skolnik has lived in Israel for 54 years where he is probably best known as the prize-winning editor in chief of the 22-...

Alwayswriteagain: Am I a Second-Class Citizen of My City?

Alwayswriteagain: Am I a Second-Class Citizen of My City?: After a break of some weeks I return to this blog with a stiff public complaint about how as an Anglo resident, I feel that I am treated as ...

כתיבה וחתימה טובה

Very best wishes for a sweet and successful 5778 to all who are celebrating the Jewish New Year.

Natalie Wood and Brian Fink (Karmiel, Galilee, Israel).

(© Natalie Wood (17 September 2017)

Alwayswriteagain: Super Recipes from a Super Doc!

Alwayswriteagain: Super Recipes from a Super Doc!: I first learned about social anxiety only very recently but have since seen it mentioned increasingly often, mainly in reference to women’s...

Alwayswriteagain: Loud but Not Proud

Alwayswriteagain: Loud but Not Proud: The late Lionel Blue , Britain’s first openly gay rabbi, would feel great empathy with the author of My Real Hue * . He would understand hi...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Yes: Far Too Soon to Say Goodbye!

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Yes: Far Too Soon to Say Goodbye!: As we mark the bi-centenary of the death of novelist, Jane Austen scholars still debate its cause. Was it tuberculosis, cancer, Addison’s d...

Alwayswriteagain: Israel Sports Its Rainbow

Alwayswriteagain: Israel Sports Its Rainbow: If anything expresses the essence of Israel as a rainbow nation it is surely the Maccabiah Games which this year attracted 10,000 participa...

Alwayswriteagain: Coco Lite!

Alwayswriteagain: Coco Lite!: I am convinced that the major self - publishing companies are wholly honourable and while their services are not cheap they wish to do th...

Alwayswriteagain: Coco Lite!

Alwayswriteagain: Coco Lite!: I am convinced that the major self - publishing companies are wholly honourable and while their services are not cheap they wish to do th...

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Restoring Miss Toyah

PerfectlyWritePoetry: Restoring Miss Toyah: ‘Erasure poetry’ is defined as a form of ‘found poetry’ or ‘found art’ created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and ...

Alwayswriteagain: Musical Works - In Eight Great Hands!

Alwayswriteagain: Musical Works - In Eight Great Hands!: Watching the Israel Musicals’ show, Ode to a Golden Age , I could not help but think of On The Other Hand, the title of the long-running Je...

Alwayswriteagain: Lots of Bread – But Not In Bed!

Alwayswriteagain: Lots of Bread – But Not In Bed!: The wide variety of bread salads available throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East is due surely to the region’s ancient peasant cu...

Alwayswriteagain: Not Just a Matter of Life and Death …!

Alwayswriteagain: Not Just a Matter of Life and Death …!: Among the many literary and book review sites with which I’m registered is  ReviewSaint.com which recently invited me to critique a short s...

Alwayswriteagain: Manchester Measures the Diameter of Its Bomb

Alwayswriteagain: Manchester Measures the Diameter of Its Bomb: The Diameter Of The Bomb   The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, ...

Of This Food Is Coral Made?

Of This Food Is Coral Made?: Deep down, very deep down among the kale, lovage and sorrel at our fruit and vegetable market here in Karmiel, Galilee, I thought I had foun...

Alwayswriteagain: Israeli Minister’s Yom Yerushalayim Scene Stealer!...

Alwayswriteagain: Israeli Minister’s Yom Yerushalayim Scene Stealer!...: Not universally popular either in Israel or the general Jewish world, Miri Regev , Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sport has stunned visito...

Alwayswriteagain: The Spiritual Fires of Meron

Alwayswriteagain: The Spiritual Fires of Meron: “If Jerusalem is the heart of our people”, writes Gittel Marcus “then the Galilee is the imagination. The fires of Meron travel from mounta...

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: Just Nippon Out for a Banana!

PerfectlyWriteFamilyTales: Just Nippon Out for a Banana!:   Mr Martin Pavelka knows it's important to have a banana. Do You? In  my sagacious opinion, both Mr Pavelka and Telegraph Travel s...