By Karin Kloosterman

With Israel being the Holy Land, you would expect the Pope and all his pontiffs to be regular visitors to this neck of the woods. (This neck of the woods being Israel where I now live.)
While there are not many churches in Tel Aviv, there are very established Christian and Catholic places of [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Showing up unannounced, I’d met Beverly Goodman in Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel where she is working as a marine researcher, doing something akin to underwater archeology. She was eager to accept me and my mom, who’d just come to Israel from Canada for a short holiday. Thinking I could merge travel [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Living in Israel, most of the news we read –– as you can imagine–– revolves around Middle East politics. It gets tiring. Naturally, I try to avoid the newspapers, and read my news online, picking and choosing the sections that appeal to me: technology, biotech, culture and art. Once in a while, my work [...]

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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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