Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student, Dr. Beltran R. Gomez of Forest Hills, NY, was pronounced dead at 4:41 p.m. at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston...
...passerby called the Harvard University Police after hearing moans coming from Gomez's room early Saturday morning, according to the HUPD log. The HUPD summoned an ambulance to the scene, and Dr. Gomez was taken first to Mt. Auburn Hospital and then to Beth Israel...
...kosher) McDonald's. Over my Big Mac, across the shopping center from the Laser Center (spelled in awkward Hebrew) and above the Castro clothing store (named after either the district of San Francisco or the Cuban dictator or both, given the number of red dresses), I wondered why Israel is populated with so many things American. One potential answer is the most superficial: people speak English here as their second language, as a way to travel the world and to serve their own tourists. The seeping of American foods and names into the culture, then, makes sense, but it should...
...miss Brenda Walsh, come to Israel. Of course Israel is still Israel: a sliver of a Jewish state with minimalistic European architecture and stunning landscapes. There are dazzling markets where spices are as colorful as they are strong, and streets wind thousands of years into the past, where Jewish, Christian and Islamic names and histories overlap with tens of half-for-gotten pasts. It is still a country where archaeological digs routinely turn up artifacts from the earliest fortified cities and people my age wear peagreen uniforms, berets and guns--whether defending Israel on the Lebanese border or guarding their...
...Israel has a particularly proud culture, its foreignness escaping all but the most trite and incomplete description by this American tourist. Yet where language and culture has such a long history, why has the American version invaded with such force...