Modern Israel is a place filled with contradictions: the beautiful landscape often rife with human conflict; the tranquil and the peaceful in constant struggle with terrible destruction; and amazing human love and kindness set against a backdrop of civil strife. Through the eyes of a writer like ...
She spends hours there every day, planting flowers or harvesting the vegetables they dine on. He marvels at her patience. Of all the Hebrew she has learned in her twenty-odd years in Israel, he figures the overwhelming majority has to do with food and gardening. A bird flutters at the window, hov...
He marveled at his boys, who, in the few months since they had returned early with Rebecca, had come to seem as though they had never lived anywhere else, never spoken another language. He wondered if they had had time to establish rituals of their own, whether they had found some of the secrets ...
