Desktop Memories

I was cleaning up my desktop and found some old and new photos. Thought I met share them and their stories before filing them away in the depths of my computer. So here goes.

With my BFF from grade 1, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. Yechiel has had an illustrious, controversial and off-the-wall career of engaging evangelical Christians to donate $800,000,000 to Jewish and Israeli causes. Off-the-wall? Who am I to talk?

Yechiel’s new biography by Zev Chafetz is out. It’s quite revealing and great reading for someone who was a small part of the saga.

My brother-in-law Benny Duanis (right) and I made acquaintance with Roger Cohen in front of the synagogue of Rhodes which was closed (it is closed on the Sabbath, how ironic). We got an honorable mention in the New York Times as a result. That was cool.

At the recent DLD Tel Aviv, a picture with my hi-tech hero Bob Rosenschein (center) and Dror Gill (right), who is doing well.

A rare moment, singing Summertime in wintertime at DLD Munich with Randi Zuckerberg.

The QuadLoop, my first invention, with Prof. Ervin Weiss.

Performing a song with Tel Aviv mayor, Ron Huldai, at Tel Aviv DLD, with my intrepid band, Tom Peleg (contrabass) and Sonja Jacob (seated).

People have reported seeing me as an Italian cardinal in a zombie movie about Jerusaleam.

Leaving HIT last month was sad but not devastating.  Luckily I was not unemployed for long.

The guy on the left is my hero Donavan. We sang Mellow Yellow together that afternoon. My life has never been the same.

Stav is now a well-known politician here in Israel, but I gave her a lift in my limo in Munich way back when.

At Kinnernet Italia, Beatrice Villiger taught me to sing opera. Now I’m dangerous. I shatter glasses.