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• I give up! Jessica Fleischer couldn't live without a cigarette. Or could she? 

  UNTIL LAST NOVEMBER my life was built around cigarettes. They were my reason for getting out of bed--and for reading, walking, studying, eating,...

  For A Change, 08/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Restless 

  When I was 18, I lived in Israel for almost eight months and experienced life in a kibbutz, in the army and in Tel Aviv. This time I went on...

  For A Change, 04/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Not just a wall? 

  Three great holy sites--the Western Wall, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre--can all be found within one square kilometre....

  For A Change, 04/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Age and mystery 

  As I walk through one of the 12 gates to Jerusalem's Old City I enter a place of mystery and antiquity. According to Jewish tradition, Abraham's...

  For A Change, 04/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Uncertain 

  Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has not been particularly known for being a peaceful country. When I visited in January, the country seemed...

  For A Change, 04/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Lost utopia? 

  Since 1909, Israel's kibbutzim (collective communities) have helped to form the country. Many people see them as the only genuine form of...

  For A Change, 04/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• city of many 

  Centre of Judaism since 1003 BCE, place where Jesus lived, preached, died and was resurrected and from which the prophet Mohammed ascended to...

  For A Change, 04/01/06 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Attention! 

  I have always admired British women: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, the Bronte sisters, and Virginia Woolf. Her book, A Room...

  For A Change, 12/01/04 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Downscaling 

  I like to look at the big picture before jumping into something. So for several months before I came to work on For A Change, I had a map of the...

  For A Change, 12/01/04 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication

• Keep right 

  When my father asked me what I liked most about London, I replied, 'I love the fact that people in a hurry take the left side of the escalator and...

  For A Change, 12/01/04 by Jessica Fleischer · More from publication