Haifa Diary

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH  08/27/2012  Jerusalem is hosting the Asian Science Camp for the first time; 2012 is dubbed the "Year of As...

The new light rail system has come in for a lot of criticism during its construction and the current running in period. Jerusalemites have ...

The inauguration of the first post office in Issawiya, Jerusalem is a landmark event, which follows an intensive year of infrastructure upgr...

This week there is a major conference in Jerusalem of European lawmakers and politicians who are members of an organization called “European...

Although the month of October showed a significant decline in the number of attacks: 44 attacks as opposed to 88 attacks in September, that ...

Following the Mohammad Al Dura case which was eventually found to be a staged "film" after going trough the courts for 7 years, on...

(Thanks to Rhonda Spivak) Although few would say so publicly, every one of the handful of East Jerusalem Arabs I spoke with in the last two ...

Thus spoke Duke Orsino in Shalespeare's "Twelfth Night ". And, if this is true, then the efforts of the Jerusalem Music Cente...

This week was a sad, sad week. Our daughter in law’s Mother sadly passed away at a very young age. A woman of incredible strength of charact...

The recent protests in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem against the eviction of two Palestinian families from a house has brought internation...

This recent newspaper report has got to take first prize in the ability to stretch people’s "imagination". I wonder when the BBC w...

Sky News is running a story “Unholy Row over Religious Site Dig” in a prominent place on its broadcasts which is in fact a new version on an...

Attended a conference this week, there were participants from many European countries. The object of the conference was to try to find ways ...

This blog focuses on the environment. Today, saw the first real snow for some years in Jerusalem. Schools were closed; so many families spen...

The grandchildren in Jerusalem are getting excited about the possibility of snow this week. Even those in the Tel Aviv area are making their...