Those of you who know me (mainly from Facebook), know that in the past few yeas I’ve been a kind of a Dolphin. Officially, I am still a mammal, but I spend a great deal of my time under water. It is no longer the will to get in shape or lose another pound or […]
This week, I opened the newspaper and came across a large and cheerful headline. Israeli author David Grossman had won the British Man Booker International Prize for his book “A Horse Walks Into a Bar”. Not Bibi, not Trump, and not Islamic terrorism. What a great way to begin the day. Certainly a reason for […]
Imagine the scene: early morning, old Jaffa port in Tel Aviv, fishermen already out at sea, a peaceful atmosphere on the deserted quays, and… a vivacious babelof languages – Hebrew, English and Italian. It was so exciting to see the Italian BNI delegation from the Piedmont region, dressed in suits and ties, holding lively discussions with Israeli business people, and forming […]
“Inspire a woman, you inspire a family. Inspire enough families, you inspire a community. Inspire enough communities, you can change the world.” – JWRP Although the USA did not elect a woman to the White House, I still want to talk about women’s empowerment. No, it’s not going to be a feminist discourse, just the […]
in many of my posts I like to write about our large-scale projects for VIP clients, rich companies, world leaders and barons and dukes who have crossed my path from time to time… But every now and then, a particularly engaging story crops up, a story about an ordinary individual who gets trapped in the […]
How does a carpenter feel, when his wife takes him to buy a table in Ikea? Or a gardener wandering around the Gardens of Versailles? Or a school principal at his daughter’s parent-teacher meeting? Probably more or less how the CEO of a translation agency from Israel feels, when she lectures in English, with an […]
“Is that all he said?” asks Bill Murray in amazement. In his role as a bored Hollywood actor in the Japanese movie Lost in Translation, Murray is baffled when the interpreter tells him that the Japanese director’s lengthy, impassioned stream of instructions just means: “He wants you to look at the camera.” The movie scene is […]
My father Walter Zanger was definitely a “character”. On the one hand, he was a reform rabbi with a vast knowledge of Judaism, who featured in the American documentary television series, Mysteries of the Bible, and on the other hand, he was a sort of hippy who grew up at the dawn of the rock’n’roll era.
Not long ago I was driving along, listening to one of the morning programs. I’m not crazy about current affairs, but suddenly something familiar caught my attention. The broadcaster was interviewing the president of Tel Aviv University. They were talking about the warm relationship between the university and the municipality of Nanjing in China and […]
