Cross-posted at 60 Bloggers, a site hosting 60 posts in 60 days to celebrate…what else? The New Kids on the Block reunion tour! Much of this will be familiar to my loyal readers, some of it not. Enjoy and Shabbat Shalom. And now…without further ado…(“ehhhh….mah zeh ‘fur-dehr ah-doo?’ MAH ZEH???”) Sixty things I love about [...]
Archive | May, 2008
Moo Goo Gai Ehhhhhhh………
Here’s an article which just came my way… An Israeli business group says local flag makers won’t have much to celebrate during Israel’s 60th anniversary. During Independence Day celebrations, it’s a popular custom for Israelis to hang the national flag from homes, public buildings and cars. The Israeli Manufacturers Association says the vast majority of [...]
Harrison Ford Looks So Good, He Must Have Maccabi Zahav
That’s what I have anyway. Hello, my loyal readers-I’m back from the dead. Or from the sick, but that’s a story for my next entry. Work is proving to be incredibly busy, so busy in fact that my plans several years in the making for this past Thursday were thrown off. I’ve seriously been waiting [...]
The Real Nakba
You thought I was joking about Israeli weddings? Brace yourselves, people. Is she getting married or walking on the moon? “Houston, we have a freicha.” By the way, this woman has a Passover Seder just like you and me. You ready for the granddaddy of them all? I’m not kidding, people, this wedding dress will [...]
”And Then He Said…’And That’s Just the Shawarma!’ ” HAAAAA!!!!!!
Here’s an article about Anglo comics in Israel from the May 9th weekend edition of the Jpost. I was lucky enough to get a paper copy; unfortunately it wasn’t in the Jerusalem edition, only in the rest of the country. The show the author described was at the Dancing Camel bar in Tel Aviv in [...]
Posting on My Blog are Fun
People, Israel turned sixty earlier this month; it’s gonna be a year-long party. And the good times just keep on coming. (Here’s the wrap-up which I posted Friday with some great video coverage.) My poor roommate is having surgery on Tuesday (that’s not the good time, you sickos.) Although we speak mostly in Hebrew for [...]
Do They Sell ‘Belated Happy Birthday’ Cards in Hebrew?
Well, it’s the Friday night before the week my first group arrives from the States. Exciting times. I’m spending the weekend taking it easy and catching up on my life, doing all the things I either do in the next 24 hours or don’t do at all. That includes recapping Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut. [...]
