Image from Wix Media Israel was established as a “melting pot”. After the 1948 war, Jews from all over the world arrived in the newly...

Image by Shai Pal on Unsplash When I had the initial idea for Until the Walls Come Down , about a Jewish Israeli woman who discovers...

Cover Design: Matthew Fielder My family story wasn’t something I discovered when I started writing Until the Walls Come Down.  I first...

Red and white dust in the Grand Canyon. Photo: Guy Podjarny When we visited the Grand Canyon, we hiked a little below the rim (a little...

Cross section of a sequoia healing process. Each tiny ring represents a year The trail through Mariposa Grove is no El Capitan. Still, we...

The Grand Canyon, a little below the rim. Photo by Guy Podjarny The Vastness of the Landscape One of the strongest experiences I had...

Spring art at the Bellagio. Photo by Guy Podjarny What surprised me the most about Las Vegas was the abundance of art. I had all kinds of...

American Badlands. Photo credit: Guy Podjarny Driving through the Badlands of the West US, the teenagers listening to music on their...

Photo by Kai Oberhäuser on Unsplash It’s almost a cliché, the starving, struggling artist whose ideas are so outside the mainstream that...

Image by chrismetcalfTV on Flickr I’ve been working with The Artist’s Way for a few years now and recently completed a fourth round (I...

Image from Wix Media Podcasts are now considered a mainstream medium, and it is definitely the way many young people consume media. I’ve...

TL;DR: It’s okay, you don’t have to. In his book, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read , the French literature professor and...