“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 […]
If you have children I assume you pay a visit to a school occasionally, but when was the last time you visited a school that is 150 years old and still operating? Well, recently, I had the opportunity to do so. Just outside Tel Aviv, in the Israeli city of Holon, you can see a […]
Maybe you’re not aware of this, but science fiction lovers, especially followers of the 1980s movie series Back to the Future recently marked a special day. Marty McFly, a typical American kid, with the help of his neighbor, the eccentric inventor Doc Emett Brown, journeys through time and tries to change the course of his life by […]
What does the name Van Cleef mean to you? Well, for the more mature of us, the first thing that springs to mind is the menacing expression on the face of Angel Eyes, the “bad” character from the classic film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, played by tough-guy actor Lee Van Cleef. But […]
