Guilt

by Keren Kaissar

 

Guilt, Guilt, GUILT! It sure can keep me up at night. Oh, I have had many sleepless nights, tossing and turning in my bed, all because of this culprit that is called guilt. And tonight, on this rainy night while I am waiting for my take out food to arrive, I have decided it would be a perfect time to bring this issue up because guilt creeps up at me only too often.

בדידותו של איקרוס

by Sally Metsuyanim

וְגַּם אִמִי יָדְעָה

חָכְמָת מְשׁוֹרְרִים,

כְּשְׁיְחִידָה נָשְׂאָה בֵּין יְרֵכֵיְהּ

אֶת הַשָׂטָן הַמְאַכֵּל.

Vicky, Christina’s friend, in Barcelona

by: Pao

Woody Allen has done it again. He has directed a movie that I have had to think about for one week before I could write a review. Of all the stories and characters Vicky hit me in the face and I am still red.

My what ifs – top 3

by Pao

Everyone has their list of “what if” guys. What if the timing had been different, what if he hadn’t just broken up with whoever, what if I weren’t about to travel somewhere or worse, what if I hadn’t been so afraid, what if I hadn’t been so blind, what if I had known then what I know now? What if we had ignored the fear and everything else and had given “us” a chance. What if?

חצי משוררת וים

by Sally Metsuyanim

 

מִן הָרְאִי נִבְּטָה אֶלַי אִשָּׁה

(אִשָּׁה!),

אָז גָּרַרְתִּי אוֹתָהּ הַימָּה

ללחלח קצת את בדידותה.

השכבתיה פרקדן,

ובתווך הזה של מים ושמים

לשתי עיסתה בדימויים בנאליים.

הים היה עמוס לעייפה

שקיות נילון וצרפתים,

ואני הגדשתי סאתה

מילים ועוד מילים,

מנסה לדחוק ממנה

מחשבות קיומיות.

Revolutionary Road

by Pao

 

Directed by Sam Mendes

 

When I saw that Leo and Winslet joined forces once again I was scared that it would be another Titanic. Yes, I hated that movie. But then I thought of what they have done separately since then and I thought of the director, Sam Mendes, who directed American Beauty and Jarhead (lets forget he was behind Road to Perdition please) and I went to watch the movie with great expectations. It’s about a couple with big dreams stuck in suburbia. I guess the dramatic premise could be enough to make the movie worth watching but no, it just isn’t enough.

דרוש: יום כיפור אחת לחודש

כל מי שזכה אי פעם לבלות את יום כיפור בתל אביב הרגיש את תחושות השלווה, הרוגע, הקהילתיות, החיבור האמיתי למקום, למבנים, לאנשים. החוויה הזו מתעצמת בתל אביב בשל העובדה כי המציאות היומיומית היא ההיפך המוחלט: הימלטות תמידית ממכוניות, פקקים של שעות, זיהום האוויר הגבוה ביותר באירופה, מרדף אינסופי כדי להגיע בזמן, מציאת החנייה… ויום אחד בשנה, כל אלה מפנים את מקומם לדברים טובים יותר, ובעיקר – בריאים יותר.

Abu Dhabi

by: Jesse Fox

Last month, I had the unexpected pleasure of visiting Abu Dhabi and Dubai, two of the seven tiny kingdoms that together make up the United Arab Emirates. I was there to cover the World Future Energy Summit, an international conference on renewable energy technologies.

Abu Dhabi is the political capital of the United Arab Emirates, and also the richest of the Emirates. About a million people live in the city of Abu Dhabi, on an island roughly the size of Tel Aviv. The rest of the emirate is harsh desert, of little interest to anyone were it not for the enormous deposits of petroleum stored underground.

A few decades ago, there was very little going on there. Today, Abu Dhabi sports all the trappings of a modern city: sparkling skyscrapers, wide boulevards, manicured promenades and well-watered parks (the abundant water, I was told, comes from desalination).