I love shawarma. Love it! It’s not just a rumor that I won the shawarma-eating championship in 1982. In what historians have called either “The War to Settle the Score” or “The Pita that I Gotta Eat-a”, I failed to repeat in ’83 following a bad chumus injury and have been upset about it ever [...]
Archive | 2009
Another Step Forward for Israeli Marketing: Who’s Hungry?
Can you have jetlag if you didn’t get on a plane? Sleep schedule is still completely bizarre as I try to recover from running all over this place. And lots of running can definitely stir up an appetite. Fortunately I ate pretty well in all the hostels and hotels. But here’s something crazy I found [...]
My Birthright Photo Essay: Ready to See Some Skin?
So I’m back. Tired. After adding this experience piece to my pie of year-programs, summer programs, and camp summers, I have some new perspectives and burning questions about Jewish community, resources, difficult funding decisions, follow-up and long-term programming, and more, many of which have no answers.While you’re not going to get any of that in [...]
Come On, Birthright-It’s Time You Hired Me to Blog
I wonder if they have a Google Alert set up…. Shalom from Eilat’s Cafe Hillel! Who needs the beach when you’ve got free wireless and cafe hafuch? While my 41 chanichim and co-staff are soaking up the rays on this Shabbat morning, I’m catching up on three days with no internet. Wait, so you mean [...]
Finger-Lickin’ Tov
Is it just me or does Hanukkah always seem to go by quickly? If I miss even one night of lighting candles, I turn around and we’re on night #7. Are we really up to #5 tonight? Here’s something exciting: starting tomorrow night, I will be lighting the candles with forty Americans visiting Israel on [...]
All I Want for X-Mas Is Hulu
Chag sameach, my loyal readers! Did you receive everything you wanted for Hanukkah? Hanukkah Harry didn’t come visit me this year, presumably because I live in Israel where we don’t give gifts (where every day, people give the gift of joy and kindness. Anybody falling for that? That’s one of those jokes that only people [...]
ש’s? ש’s? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ש’s!
A Friday pre-Shabbat post??? Crazy! I know, I know, just waiting for the dude to get hot. (Ok, to prevent any rumors from flying around, what is the appropriate English spelling for the hot water heater? Dude? Dood? Dooooooooooooooooooood.*) We’re just hours away from Chanukah/Hanukkah/Chanukka/Chumusface and I have yet to partake in a single sufgania. [...]
