Here’s how this is gonna work… I am going to send a 6-pack of premium Israeli wine to the Mother who submits the funniest entry answering the question: What is the role of wine in your life as a mother? It can be either a text or video entry. The only rules are 1) you [...]
The museum at the “Tower of David”. It’s a wonderful gift to be a part of the oleh (immigrant) community with our diverse backgrounds and careers – everyone with his own story. We spent a weekday morning together, the four of us – the professional tour-guide from NewYork and now Efrat, his teacher girlfriend playing [...]
Recently I filmed a set of 4 Passover wine promotional videos with pals Melissa and Cole that Israeli Wine Direct will use over the coming weeks to help tell the story about wine from Israel. This video is NOT one of them. These are the outtakes. Enjoy! Be sure to watch the whole thing to [...]
Note from Richard: This AMAZING picture and the accompanying Commentary are courtesy of my friend Shelley Shafran, one of Israel’s rising young photographers and someone to keep your eye on. She’s agreed to regularly post pics and comments that she selects which might help broaden our understanding of what life in Israel is all [...]
Several months ago I was on the phone with an Israeli author living in Tel Aviv at 3am her time taking a wine order from her for a case of wine to send to her publicist in NYC. She told me she gets her best writing done in the early morning hours with the windows [...]
I always like to share behind-the-scenes shots with you all. Here are some pics that Uri Ran, from Tzora, took during our recent NYC and Boston travels. (I need get Uri to share some pics I took of him on his camera) Enjoy! Here’s a pic of me and a customer at our private event [...]
I have a lot to share from our many visits in NY and Boston this past week. This one story captures much of the overall mood. We were out for a late supper after an Israeli wine tasting for nearly 200 people in Boston. The important invited guests in dark suits had gone home, and [...]
