Victory on the Shvil

Greetings, all!  I am at last in a coffee shop, with access to a computer and wifi at the same time, and this time, I do have an SD card reader, so there will be pictures.  As I haven't updated for a while, I will try to put in several sets of pictures for your …

Jews, Arabs, and Atheists

Hello, all!  You, my enthusiastic audience, are most probably surprised to hear from me so soon, a fortuitous event which I will relate at the end of this post. After leaving the internet cafe, I spontaneously joined a prayer vigil to the Virgin Mary--I was in Nazareth, after all, and the Church of the Annunciation.  …

Greetings from the Holy Land

Hello, all! I hope this post finds you continuing to read about my adventures!  I FINALLY found a gaming computer store which has an attic where high-schoolers kill each other at first-person shooters and yell in Arabic and Hebrew while the proprietor makes lucid comments in several Semitic languages whilst a steady stream of smoke …