Ending Chapters Ending chapters is hard. At least for me. Even if I want to get to the end of a great book, I will sometimes linger to try to...

Death and Circuses Death and Circus We all die. No matter what we do or who we are— we all die. During this time we have been in Israel, four...

You Never Know Tonight we had a pot luck dinner. It was made for us by the families of Kibbutz Moran (and included the best challah bread I’ve ever had). ...

What Is Normal?   Today was our first real day off— no rehearsing, no shows. We had planned to go to the Dead Sea and Jerusalem but the recent invasion...

The Children Don’t Realize   I actually wasn’t going to write a blog post tonight. We started the day really early, added two new children to the show, went to Haifa...

  How Do You Communicate? We did shows today mostly for Americans— one for a leadership training group called Dor le’ Dor and another for a group from Young Judea....

Good, Bad or Super? Today, we went on a water hike at Senir Stream Nature Reserved and then to Kibbutz Shamir where we did a show and workshop. The only difference...

Can You Tell? I’ve been posting literally hundreds of photos of the Galilee Arches from Israel. You can see them at https://www.facebook.com/circusharmony/photos_stream. For some reason, the one above has gotten...

The Impact of Being Together Our first Galilee Arches 2014 show is for the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Youth Futures program in Yokneam that mentors youth at risk. This program...

“Who Are These Children?!” I was asked this question by an Israeli woman sitting on the beach at Acco. “I see they are Jewish, Arab, black, white and all colors,”...