Entry #19 - Juice, the International Herald Tribune, and News Abroad…
When all the local newsmedia is in a language you barely understand, podcasts become your daily bread. And “Juice” is my bakeshop. It checks for and automatically receives the approximately ten podcasts I subscribe to and each evening I just transfer them to my MP3 player.
Fortunately there is excellent print media in English throughout Europe. When I lived in Europe many years ago I always read the International Herald Tribune. The world coverage it provided back then in the 70’s seemed so exciting compared to US papers and I really suffered when I moved back to the States. The International Herald Tribune in Israel has an added bonus: they include a translated version of a local newspaper, Ha’aretz. This must be an extreme challenge and the translation often is ineligant, but in this day of the internet it is probably the main reason I continue to buy the IHT here several times per week.