Mit den geheimen Verhandlungen der Verbündeten Frankreich, Grossbritannien und Russland über die Abwicklung des Osmanischen Reiches nach einem Sieg im Ersten Weltkrieg begann vor hundert Jahren die…

Toronto, Canada and London, UK share a lot of similarities. They both have been voted by the United Nations as two of the most multicultural cities in the world. They both share a Commonwealth…

I grew up on the Upper East Side of New York City. Although I went to a secular private school, the majority of the students that attended and the people in my neighborhood were Jews. I attended an…

Itzik Agai and Ghalib Zahadi live and work on different sides of an increasingly divided Jerusalem, but the two restaurateurs have more in common than they›d believe. Zahadi, a Palestinian man in his…

When I was younger, I attempted to get a job doing hasbara (literally, explaining; in effect, PR for Israel) or generally combating anti-Semitism with words. When the organizations I interviewed with…

Buy this book and read it on the plane (!)”. This was David›s advice to me for our upcoming expedition to Alaska›s Harding Icefield, emailed along with a link to Glacier Mountaineering: An…

In the late fall of 2009, with the Great Recession doing its worst in the form of layoffs, hiring freezes, and ruined retirement portfolios, I quit an underpaid editorial assistant job at a loathsome…

Toronto und London haben viel gemeinsam. Die Vereinten Nationen zählen beide zu den Städten mit der grössten ethnisch-kulturellen Vielfalt. Und die Geschichte des Empire verbindet die kanadische…

Im Spätherbst 2009 hat die Finanzkrise ihren Höhepunkt und die Arbeitslosigkeit neue Rekorde erreicht. Und ich habe eine mies bezahlte Assistentenstelle bei einer grässlichen Webseite für Frauenmode…