I received this clip today of the mythological song writer and singer Neomi Shemer and couldn't believe how well she rapped: look at her body move and her tongue just twisting through all those syllables! It's wonderful to see her as well as the drummer and the rest of the musicians in the band. Funnily, behind Shemer, the crowed looks very much reserved and severe...

How I got to produce a musical murder-mystery party
My daughter Maya was always mature for her age and from an early age an independent thinker: she talked before she walked. I remember how at kindergarten she asked the assigned grandmother: "Why did it take the Jews 40 years to find a way out of the desert?