In case you missed it, here’s my latest blog post from the Times of Israel. Enjoy and Shabbat shalom! Once upon a time, 45 bajillion blog posts were written about olim, their complaints, and a partridge in a pear tree. In our immediate-reaction, “look, two things happened within three hours… it’s a meme!” society, [...]
Archive | 2012
International Flights to Israel: Fun Fun Fun!
Aaaaaand we’re back from America. Did you have a nice Yom Ha’atzmaut, my loyal readers? If you didn’t eat at least 45 cows, busha v’cherpa to you (roughly translated as “shame shame shame, everybody knows your name”). I write you (wrote, rather) from seat 28D on my Delta flight back to Israel. Frequent flyers* may [...]
LET’S DO THIS! 64 More Things I Love About Israel!
I can’t believe I’m welcoming you to my fifth annual Yom Ha’atzmaut list. After 246 different things I love about Israel, I didn’t believe 64 more even existed. A few months, many hours, two long plane rides, and a consultation or two with a couple of my funny friends later, I discovered that I was [...]
It’s April Fool’s Day….Why Not Move to Tel Aviv?
Tomorrow, I move to Tel Aviv. I was pretty sure this day was coming from the time I moved here; I just didn’t know it would take 3.5 years to return. My aliyah has taken me to Tel Aviv, then Jerusalem, and now back where I began. And, yes, the “Hinei Ani Ba” parallels have been [...]
Water, Water, Everywhere (Especially at Chili’s)
Another trip to America (thank you, Jspace), another requisite comparison. It really is amazing and slightly mind-blowing how every time I return, I feel more Israeli, picking up on things that I never noticed before, like Neo in “The Matrix”. Or Marty McFly after he goes back to 1985 and sees his “new” family. I [...]
The REAL Truth in Gaza: A Photo Journal
This piece also ran in the Times of Israel here. Greetings from America. Thanks to Jspace, I’ve had a fun trip, bringing laughs to people in Southern Illinois, South Bend, and tomorrow, Madison. (Have you created a profile yet? Go do it now…I’ll wait.) If you’re going to live in Israel, you’d better have a sense [...]
It’s the Jspace.com Comedy Tour!
Shalom from the land of chul. More on Jspace in a moment. But first…. February 29th at some ungodly hour… Nothing like a visit to Ben-Gurion Airport to get my blog juices flowing again. (Hey, I have a tag cloud! How fun. Here are all my blog posts tagged with “Ben-Gurion Airport.” Have fun.) What [...]
