The BBC camera crew really outdid themselves this year. Happy 2026! 🎆 It is that time of the year when everyone wishes everyone a happy new year. I had always done so myself, until 1990, assuming it was — let’s say — universal. But did you know that Judaism once recognized four different New Years — not just one? I didn’t, when I arrived in Israel in 1990 and discovered that December 31 meant very little there. It was only my second month in the country, as a new immigrant —

Finding clarity in the storm: A walk along the Isle of Man coast where the idea for my memoir first surfaced. 2021 There were a few reasons I began writing this memoir. When the 2020 pandemic hit, I found myself rethinking how I was spending my days—cooped up in a small apartment in a new city and country we had just moved to. I needed a project to keep both my hands and my mind busy. Cooking didn’t interest me, cleaning and decluttering only got me so far, social networks fe