- Jun 30, 2020
The Work of Our Hands
I decided to come up to the farm the day after Shavuot, one of the Jewish harvest festivals. I went into the backyard and wanted to plant...
- Jun 11, 2020
On Farming and Finding
You never know what you don’t know. Before this week I didn’t know that chickpeas grow in pods, just like snap peas. I didn’t know that...
- May 10, 2020
Of Raglans and Resilience
"As I inch my way around this glove's wrist, I am reminded that knitting is fundamentally about binding together. Not only binding wool...
- Apr 14, 2020
A Time For Now
Time moves differently in quarantine. I sleep with my window open, letting in the light from the street. I wake up looking outside,...
- Mar 22, 2020
Alone Together
Last Shabbat I saw all my friends. I went from house to house, schmoozing and celebrating the wonderful community I've become a part of...
- Feb 20, 2020
Of Talmud and Tradition
I knit myself a pullover sweater which just didn't work as a pullover sweater. The front bottom edge puffs out in the front at an...
- Jan 23, 2020
On Spaces and Searching
My bus pulled in to Delphi well after dark, and I stopped in at the one taverna that was open on the one street in the village. The one...
- Dec 20, 2019
Of Santorini Sunsets
Winter in Scotland has been hard (and it’s hardly yet begun). The days are short and cold. It’s dark when I walk to work, and dark again...
- Nov 27, 2019
Of Cheap Hostels and Belgian Waffles
The Grand Place in Brussels I love travelling alone. I love the feeling of getting off a long bus ride in a totally new place and walking...
- Nov 25, 2019
On Choices and Voices
Poland is a very particular type of Holocaust experience. Don’t get me wrong - I love Poland. I think it’s a beautiful country, with so...
- Nov 15, 2019
From Scotland to Poland
In October 2019 I led a UJIA delegation of 11 Scottish teenagers to visit Jewish sites across Poland. The following blog posts were...
- Sep 27, 2019
Arran Magic
I arrived on the Isle of Arran on the first ferry Friday morning and left on the last ferry Sunday night. Arran is an island just off the...
- Sep 9, 2019
Two Weeks Later
In my first two weeks in Glasgow I’ve already experienced a great many things. I accompanied a group of 12-year-olds as they volunteered...
- Sep 5, 2019
Where To Go, What To Do: North
This is the follow-up post to Where To Go, What To Do: South, which showcases my travels in South India and gives some itinerary planning...
- Sep 3, 2019
Where To Go, What To Do: South
India is huge. And not only is it physically large, but each region is vastly different culturally, many with their own distinctive...
- Aug 26, 2019
On Endings and Beginnings
Me with some new friends outside the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu I picked up a dirty secondhand copy of the novel Life...
- Aug 6, 2019
Monuments of Exile
Just before I came to India, I met someone who said that his family is Tibetan, but he grew up in India. I remember that it didn't really...
- Aug 1, 2019
Revisiting Munnar
Tamil Nadu tired me out. The sights were interesting, although perhaps not as grande as elsewhere in India. The suffering humidity made...
- Jul 23, 2019
The Tamil Nadu Temple Trail
I came Tamil Nadu on an overnight sleeper bus to Chennai. It was the last of my South Indian states but it felt different. The language...
- Jul 18, 2019
Je Ne C'est Kya?
Pondicherry was quite strange. A French colony until 1962, it remains an eclectic mix of South Indian and French culture, sprinkled with...
