Hello, new readers, and thanks for stopping by. Good times as always in the War Zone with the recent beach post being published on Ynet this week. I sent it to my co-workers in the department, continuing the charade that they have any interest in anything I write in English. Good people, they just don’t [...]
Archive | July, 2008
More Work Odds and Ends
The summer continues….my co-workers and I are all over the country following our groups around and putting out proverbial fires (ech omrim “proverbial fires”?) I love the phrase “the shetach (field)”. Every time I say I’m in the shetach, it sounds like I’m camouflaged crawling through mud in Lebanon, when in actuality I’m buying Imodium [...]
Good Thing I Have Field Reporters
Another text from my friend Mort… I’m on the bus and the driver is telling Talmudic stories with morals and relating them to current events. He is a talented storyteller. I love this country. Only one more group to run after next week…this is the calm before the posting storm, people! Longer updates to come [...]
There are No Words
If you are connected enough to Israel to read this blog, you are surely aware of the events of earlier today. There are no words. While one country celebrates the release of a killer after the death of 1000+ citizens, another country hangs its heads and mourns. May G-d have mercy on the families of [...]
*How To Know You’re Not Yet Israeli #237
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy… If you walk in on your Israeli co-workers eating the contents of this picture and your first thought is “WHAT IN G-D’S NAME HAPPENED TO THOSE FALAFEL BALLS?!?”…you might be an American. Quick! Call Magen David Adom! If you recognized these little critters as lychee, give yourself shtay nekudot (two [...]
You Thought I Was Joking About Israeli Weddings?
Here it is if you missed it. And here’s more proof from my friend Mort, sent via text message from the shetach (the “field”)…. At a wedding. They are dancing the hora to “9 to 5″ and to the Bee Gees. Five minutes later… It’s getting worse. The band is a string quartet of blondes [...]
Dance, Camel, Dance!….And If You Can’t See So Well…
Ok, I just started typing out this rant about camels and how we can’t decide whether or not to promote this place as camel-obsessed or not until I realized that I’ve already gone there. So save me some time and just read this if only for the first couple of paragraphs. Done? Tov-so Wednesday night, [...]
