Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

This afternoon I visited a friend sitting Shiva on the death of his 90-something mother. She lived her entire life in London. Her son, refle...

Cliona Campbell has an unlikely story. She's a student in Ireland who loves Israel (rare), and showed it by coming to work for two month...

Lots of important things to think and write about today, no time to do the thinking and writing, however. So instead, here's a very nice...

In all the excitement about the Turkish thugs and our inept attempt to thwart them, let's not forget the passing of Lova Eliav , who die...

Eli Cohen has iconic status in Israel, in spite of being dead 45 years already. Cohen was an Israeli spy planted in Damascus in 1961, purpor...

Here's a story about an Orthodox Jew who used to be a neo-Nazi: actually two of them, if you can believe it. (It's in the newspaper...

Chaim K. passed away late Saturday afternoon. He was 87 - not that you'd know it by watching the callers making condolence calls at his ...

Three scenes: I've pointed out repeatedly in the past that Israeli hospitals disprove all the stereotypes about ethnic relations in this...

Yesterday was the Tenth of Tevet, an ancient day of mourning which is still unbearably contemporary. Since the Jewish and Gregorian calender...

Yitshak (Ike) Aharonovitch, captain of the Exodus , has died. He was 86. Yossi Harel, Haganah commander of the operation and Aharonovitch...

Metula, earlier this week: view of the main street taken from the center of the village. The white structure at the bottom of the block is ...

Frankfurt airport. Three or four elderly Israeli women and one well-dressed elderly man reached the checkpoint (I think it was the fourth so...

I was at the central cemetery of Jerusalem this afternoon for the first time in a while. Near the entrance a fellow named Dayan has set up a...

The other day just as I was about to cross a street a bus came careening by and tried to take the corner from a two-lane street into a one-l...

Remember the conundrum of the two crooks who have been arrested and are being interrogated separately? If they both keep mum, they'll bo...

Miriam Zur at 16, posing for the camera on the beach of Tel Aviv, June 22, 1948. Her grandaughter found the snapshot in a shoe box a few yea...

Three old codgers playing cards just off Mahane Yehuda, earlier this afternoon. If I had to decide, I'd say two of them are North Afric...

Walking down the block earlier this evening, it was impossible not to notice a young woman coming towards me, talking loudly on her cell pho...

The other day I was on a bus to Tel Aviv ( buses are interesting places). Sitting next to me was an earnest young man with a fancy beard r...

I really need to start toting around a digital camera as part of my standard everyday gear, otherwise how will I convince you all of the ver...