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May You Live to be
120
The occasion of the 120th
issue of ERETZ Magazine is a good excuse to get to the bottom of
the Hebrew and Yiddish expression, “May you live to be 120,”
which has been and still is used as a customary blessing for
birthdays. As ERETZ has reached its 120th issue, I have to add
for the protocol that when someone gets to be over 100, the
customary blessing is “May you live another 120.” |
Laughing in Jerusalem
“Caricatures in Jerusalem,” a new exhibit at the Tower of David
Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem shows how political
cartoonists in Israel have related to Jerusalem over the past
seven decades.
The most striking aspect is how relevant many of the cartoons
seem. “The exhibit shows that most of the problems that plagued
the city in the 1940s are still there,” curator Eran Litvin
said. |
Shekulo Tov
The dictionary defines rehabilitation as the return
of someone or something to a good or healthy condition, state,
or way of living. In the world of mental health, that is a hard
promise to keep. That, however, doesn’t mean that there is not
much that can be done to provide a person with the opportunity
to become a productive member of society. An enterprise with the
somewhat utopian name of Shekulo Tov (Hebrew for Everything’s
OK) has set out to do exactly that. |
People of Jerusalem
Slava Pekarsky immigrated
to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990 and has been exploring it
ever since. His camera allows him to preserve and share some of
the unique scenes that he witnesses in Jerusalem.
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