jen’s lens

Challenging the narrative

I’m delighted to provide you with deep, multifaceted, and first-hand insights into Israel. No longer in public office, I can show you Israel up close, from the inside, as well as from 25,000 feet — all with total clarity.

A weekly selection of my personal archives, written, photos, videos, menus, and other visual materials, on eating, cooking, and travel from the simplest to the grandest, everyone from local fishermen to the world’s most famous names. Hope you like it!

Decades ago, I escaped the Islamic world and came to the West. Many don't know how good the West is, or how fragile. I fight for the restoration of what made the West great.

History and gossip about cool stuff at auction, with an emphasis on antique jewelry (but also lots of weird)

We are living through an epistemological crisis. The concept of subjectivity has all but replaced the concept of fact. Political and commercial falsehood are protected as free speech. Objective reality is regarded as an illegitimate concept.