The World In Between

Stories from Israel

By Julie Callahan on December 17, 2015 • ( 8 )

I flew to Israel to have lunch with a man and his wife. Nathan Steiner grew up in Bratislava. I knew the family name from the Steiner bookstore which still operates in the center of the old town. Ever since… Read More ›
Lessons from the Laundromat

By Julie Callahan on December 13, 2015 • ( 13 )

During the month we lived in California, we stayed in a basement apartment in the affluent part of San Rafael. The home stood behind a locked gate. Our apartment behind a locked door. The washer and dryer locked behind a… Read More ›
Time to Head South

By Julie Callahan on December 4, 2015 • ( 6 )

The last two mornings in Michigan, I scraped a heavy coating of frost from the car windshield. It was thick and crackly, like vanilla glaze poured over a donut. Since our rental came from Florida, we had no ice scraper,… Read More ›
To Israel

By Julie Callahan on November 25, 2015 • ( 8 )

We decided to go to Israel, and we went. In those intervening three weeks between decision and flight, friends and family warned us, be careful, do as you are told, don’t go where you shouldn’t. Pat read the NY Times… Read More ›
Imagine

By Julie Callahan on November 20, 2015 • ( 6 )

When I was a child, my father asked me not to buy the song Imagine. He didn’t want to give money to something which, in his mind, promoted the abolition of religion. This seemed odd to me; my father was… Read More ›