MOVING SOUTH,CHANGING CULTURE
Tel-Aviv: May 31st 2006 Tired of the continuous attacks of the cockroaches hiding behind my refrigerator in the apartment of Ramat Aviv,...
WORKING THE LINE
“Mom, I will come back late, right after the demonstration against the Vietnam war! Can you make sure I have something to eat when I...
93, RUE LAURISTON
(As a first short post on this FB page, I have chosen to write a "story" about a war criminal by the name of Inspector Pierre Bonny who...
HENRI-DESIREE LANDRU
I was born on April 12th 1869 on Rue Puebla, close to the Rue des Pyrenees and not far away from the Buttes-Chaumont park, . My father,...
WELCOME TO POLAND
Why can’t a polish name be simple to remember? Do Poles choose their name just for the sake of making foreigners unable to pronounce it?...
HOUSE OF JUSTICE
Since the days of David against Goliath, the world Justice has been an important part of Judaism. Tzedakka (the action of obeying God's...
APPLES,CARMEL,MELONS AND PEARS
(A new photo essay from Our Man in Tel-Aviv - Sylvain Ubersfeld - the amazing market at Carmel. Seven high-resolution photos follow the...
GLORIOUS THIRTIES
The " Glorious Thirties" is a period ranging from 1947 to about 1975 in the history of France. Hardly any unemployement, economic...
FORBIDDEN TO JEWS
July 16th, 1942 (A day of horror for thousands of foreign Jews who thought that living in France would protect them! Paris-Mémoires...
TAXI-RIDER
Our Man in Tel-Aviv, Sylvain Ubersfeld, explains more of the real day-to-day there. When I first set foot in Tel-Aviv in 1997, I was...
