Gleaning. A Morality Tale Involving Tomatoes. By Charles Ribakoff “You who are on the road must have a code that you can live by And so become your dreams, because the past is just a good-bye Teach your children well…” --Graham Nash I will never look at a salad the same way again, but I am getting ahead of myself. I am in Israel, traveling this time with Patty and our girls, and good friends, and friends of friends to celebrate a bat mitzvah here in Jerusalem. It is Nicki’s (age 7) and Corky’s (age 10) first time in Israel. While all my trips here over the last 40 years have been special, this one is even more so, as I get to see it through their eyes. There are about 40 of us, half kids, half at least chronologically grown ups. It is not true that we are all bozos on this bus, but we are bus-bound all over. So one of the things that’s different about this trip for me is we are doing lots of touring, visiting lots of sites I have been too blasé or lazy to revisit. After all, one could think that a place with 5000 years of ...