JPost.com - Judy Montagu Reporter

In my own write: Meeting and mating

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:57:01 GMT

There is something appealing about the idea of women strong enough to deal with possible rejection and move on, their egos intact, to more fruitful relationships.

In my own write: Visceral response

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:06:15 GMT

Extra-sensitized, perhaps, by the proximity of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I asked myself, uneasily, “We’re buying a German oven?”

In my own write: Mea culpa

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:54:51 GMT

Apologizing might feel like “giving in,” but it’s more often a win-win situation, giving a relationship a new lease on life.

In my own write: Let the music play

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:41:51 GMT

I hate loud bands at weddings. Does that make me a killjoy?

In My Own Right: Stereotypes

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:02:43 GMT

Prejudice or preconceived idea: pre-judging without specific knowledge or reason.

In My Own Write: On fitness and fatness

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:57:36 GMT

The New Jersey governor’s obesity sends a message to us all – but it might not be the one you think.

In My Own Write: Where to draw the line

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:35:45 GMT

Gerald Scarfe told Britain’s 'Jewish Chronicle' this week that he “very much regrets” the timing of his cartoon.

In My Own Write: Artistic provocation

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:51:47 GMT

It would be good, if von Hausswolff’s guilt is proved and he is punished, for other would-be “Holocaust artists” to take note.

In My Own Write: It’s about more than money

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:50:21 GMT

When a couple goes on a date, who picks up the tab?

In My Own Write: About keeping your balance

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:44:11 GMT

Let’s stay above ground, and not go down the rabbit hole with Alice.

In My Own Write: Games people play

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:50:50 GMT

What separates the winners from the losers? It comes down to navigation.

In My Own Write: Have you heard the one about...?

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:34:26 GMT

What is laughter? Laughter is ultimately an expression of emotion – happiness, amusement, surprise, relief; even, on occasion, “nerves.”

In My Own Write: In from the cold

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:33:39 GMT

Within each of us dwells a child whom we ignore at our peril.

In My Own Write: Beyond wear and tear

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:44:48 GMT

"No pain, no gain" gives way to "No pain, no brain"

In My Own Write: Back to basics

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:22:21 GMT

US anthropologist Edward T. Hall coined the term proxemics in his study of how human culture influences our use of space.

In my own write: The power of a smile

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:23:52 GMT

The contact engendered by even a fleeting smile has surprising human warmth and strength.

In My Own Write: Neighbors

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:32:37 GMT

Were the sons of a man who died eight years ago right to rebury his body in a more ‘pious’ location?

In My Own Write: What, me worry?

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:44:25 GMT

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

In My Own Write: The Big Heat

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:30:49 GMT

How something useful and good can turn into something mad and destructive, just like that.

In My Own Write: Baggage Check

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:02:39 GMT

Why do so many of us get anxious when there’s an empty suitcase to fill?

In my own write: White nights

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:18:25 GMT

To sleep... perchance to toss and turn: Aye, there’s the rub.

In My Own Write: Monsters are us

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:21:02 GMT

When we learn about yet another murder or rape, do we push it out of our minds, or ponder what we humans are capable of?

In My Own Write: Second families

Tue, 08 May 2012 22:47:38 GMT

How do men cope with the demands of late fatherhood?

In My Own Write: Friendly fire

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:51:18 GMT

There is little that can be called friendly about fire, particularly when it kills you.

In My Own Write: A question of identity

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:49:01 GMT

That unique arrangement of features recognizable to the outside world carries on its reverse side a corresponding, invisible reflection of those features that reaches deep into the core of one’s being.

In My Own Write: Happily ever after

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:08:27 GMT

Forget about falling in love. How about falling in like?

In My Own Write: Reversals of fortune

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:40:47 GMT

Try the power of the unexpected

In My Own Write: Mourners of Zion

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:11:21 GMT

Sitting shiva: Observing the Jewish mourning period - from the Hebrew word ‘sheva,’ meaning seven (days).

In My Own Write: Of courage and comfort

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:44:38 GMT

Suppose you never believed you had real control of your life?

In my own write: Playing pretend

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:37:27 GMT

Pity our children, who will have to contend with the results of an ongoing, indefinite suspension of reality.

In My Own Write: When less is more

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:27:54 GMT

'Appropriate: right or suitable; fitting [the context or occasion]' – Collins English Dictionary

Bath beckons

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:12:13 GMT

The only British city to be named a World Heritage site is a feast for the eye.

In My Own Write: Wheeling and dealing

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:52:54 GMT

It’s heartbreaking seeing Mr. Useful become Mr. Useless.

Your food: is it friend or foe?

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:23:43 GMT

“Food is my enemy. It is poison to my body.” I repeat that a dozen times before I eat, and could you imagine what wonders it does? – Female blogger.

In My Own Write: Case of the killer buildings

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:52:42 GMT

God forbid that apathy should cost us dear.

In My Own Write: Imperfect faith

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:59:40 GMT

If every bit of the puzzle fitted to our satisfaction, we would have no need for faith, nor for God. We would be God.

In My Own Write: A softening of memory

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:40:14 GMT

Why guilt is not only unhelpful, but counterproductive.

In My Own Write: The curse of perfection

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:28:33 GMT

I wonder how many regular folk are plagued in their daily lives by an image of perfection that dangles mockingly in front of them.

In My Own Write: Music to our ears?

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:15:00 GMT

One person’s noise is another’s nuisance.

In My Own Write: Sizing things up

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:06:17 GMT

Why small is beautiful, much of the time. In myself, however, such feelings extend beyond the living to the inanimate.

Time-bomb for the tardy

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:21:27 GMT

In My Own Write: Is there any hope for chronic latecomers?

In my own write: A perfect love

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:55:08 GMT

In Israel, 300,000 individuals are suffering through grandparents being cut off from their grandchildren.

In My Own Write: Little and often

Tue, 17 May 2011 22:55:24 GMT

Three words that point the way to a better life.

In My Own Write: Original sin

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:31:36 GMT

Is there a religious element in Western antagonism to Israel?

In My Own Write: Ahhhroma!

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:36:56 GMT

The next time someone admonishes us to “Wake up and smell the coffee,” we should hold back our irritation and just be grateful – that we can.

In My Own Write: The ring of truth

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:36:18 GMT

Lying, the opposite of truth-telling, is regarded as bad; Tact, diplomacy, which involve omission, evasion, are generally viewed as admirable.

In My Own Write: Holiday of the mind

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:03:40 GMT

I was anticipating the event with great pleasure, but saw it as always ahead of me; so that when it actually arrived, I shot straight past it.

In my own right: ‘God’s policemen’

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:27:21 GMT

Those of us who eschew a random universe know that, when all is said and done, we cannot know the reason.

Building walls, not bridges

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:35:44 GMT

In My Own Write: I wanted to write about loneliness, but something held me back. Was it that readers might think I was talking about myself?

In My Own Write: Emotional overload

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:55:52 GMT

A calm appraisal of another’s situation, with some emotional distance kept between helper and sufferer, is far more beneficial for both sides.

In my own write: The art, or the imperative, of caring

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:36:55 GMT

My concern about the plants' future – which I know lies largely in my hands – prompted me to consider some of the ways we go about “looking after.”

In My Own Write: Messengers and their motives

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:57:52 GMT

One must examine one’s own motivation minutely and be quite sure that one is not delivering the message for the sake of any personal benefit.

Heroism for ‘Everyman’

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:48:09 GMT

We can’t all be heroes, as police officers Ahuva Tomer, Lior Boker and Yitzhak Melina were last week, but we can act to save people’s lives.

In My Own Write: The high price of over-thinking

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:08:01 GMT

If love is in the air, why are so many smart, intelligent people not getting their share?

In My Own Write: Why context is crucial

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:45:09 GMT

Context: the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs – Webster’s Dictionary.

In My Own Write: The urge to amass

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:57:13 GMT

What intrigues me about collectors isn’t what they collect, but why.

In my Own Write: All work and no play

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:48:25 GMT

“When you work from home, it puts you in a situation where you are virtually always on call."

Of cabbages and cucumbers: Winning recipes for Succot

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:31:35 GMT

OVERHEARD during lunch on Simhat Torah: “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet.”

In My Own Write: About letting go

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:37:00 GMT

There is physical need, and there is psychological need, and of the two, the latter is far more complex.

In my own write: The greatest gift

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:33:51 GMT

Happiness – or something very near it – is within our grasp.

In my own write: Emotion in 3-D

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:31:35 GMT

Bored by Avatar, enchanted by Toy Story 3.

In My Own Write: Yekke par excellence

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:42:15 GMT

Dress was only part of it, decorum and politeness were paramount, and never being as much as a minute late for an appointment.

In My Own Write: Foodless in Zion

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:32:03 GMT

If mutual tolerance is a prerequisite for the ending of exile, I think I’ll be going foodless for many more Tisha Be’avs to come.

In My Own Write: Shades of meaning

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:51:59 GMT

Imagine if every article and column in a newspaper dealt with the Arab-Israel conflict.

In My Own Write: Those who should know better

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:12:11 GMT

"IT’S THERE, in our daily discourse – Jews calling other Jews ‘Nazis.’"

In My Own Write: A case of radical otherness

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:03:49 GMT

Israel must build on its growing awareness of the crucial need to win hearts and minds.

In My Own Write: An amazing grace

Wed, 26 May 2010 15:57:47 GMT

The link between kindness and kin becomes obvious once you think about it.

In My Own Write: This year in Jerusalem

Tue, 04 May 2010 20:24:36 GMT

Two J'lem walks highlight the importance of being in Israel and in its capital.

In My Own Write: Honey trap

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:00:22 GMT

At what point does comforting ritual become Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

In My Own Write: Where God stood in the Shoah

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:35:51 GMT

He led between two and three million Israelites safely out of Egypt, but He didn’t show six million Jews the way around Hitler’s ovens.

In My Own Write: When joy comes knocking

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:28:39 GMT

This story of late-life love sounds like a fairy tale, but it is playing out in the real world.

In My Own Write: Change in the weather

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:32:50 GMT

In Israel, spring is not a simple affair. Not at all.