By Paul Shindman
Strikes, spares and misses – it’s bowling time in the Holy Land! For sure there are the traditional sports of soccer, basketball, team handball (a very European sport almost unknown in Canada), volleyball and the like in Israel. I’ve also written here about the sports you don’t expect in the Middle East: baseball, [...]

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ByPaul Shindman
I promised you before and here it is: a 6-pack is a “Shishia” (pronounced SHEE-shee-uh). Literally, it means a sextet or sextuplet. And how do you say “two-four”? You don’t, because they don’t sell cases of 24 beers in Israel. No 12-packs either.  (For the curious among you, in Hebrew if you wanted to [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

When I first moved to Toronto, from Newmarket, Ontario, I felt it took months, even a couple years to feel like Toronto was mine. A destination site for many tourists, I always tell my friends in Israel not to visit Toronto, if they come to Canada. Not because I don’t love Toronto, but [...]

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