piano, travel, wine tasting, cooking, gardening, decorating, reading

my son, music, art, opera, travel, precious stones, dogs, theater, museums

Mendelssohn, Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lizst, Chopin, J. Verdi, Charles Gounod, Domenico Donizetti, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cecilia Bartoli

I love you to death, Amadeus, Sleepless in Seattle, Moonstruck, Schindler's List, A Clockwork Orange, Life Is Beautiful, Once Upon a Time in America....

everything by M. Bulgakov, Forsyte Saga, everything by Lion Feuchtwanger, Essays by Michel de Montaigne, A. Chekhov, F. Kafka, Guy de Maupassant, Flavius Josephus, Norman Mailer, Sholem Aleichem

Homeland, Arrested Development, Bizarre Foods, Ancient Aliens

“The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.”

- Theodor Herzl