It’s that time of year again; we’re just days away from the annual Comedy for Koby winter tour. I’m always surprised to meet an Anglo who hasn’t heard of it but anything is possible. B’kitzur, nice Jewish boy Avi Liberman is back, along with three more American comedians to make us laugh, all for a good [...]
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WWZ Video Blog: Child-Rearing in the Middle East
I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. I just made that up. Sounds good, right? Even though they’re dumb and crap their pants, trust me, it won’t always be that way. Kids are going places; you heard it here first. So when fellow Hahafuch team member [...]
And You Thought “Pines” Street Sounded Weird
I bring you the most ridiculous street name in all of Israel. Seriously, can this be topped? I believe this is in Givat Massua in Jerusalem, right by the old Young Judaea hostel (the “new” old one.) HI-larious. If anyone’s looking for me, I’ll be laughing ha-ass off. Photo credit: Gail Lobel Rand Apparently it’s [...]
America: The Photo Montage (How Much Weird Stuff Can I Find at the Airport?)
Hello, my loyal readers-I’m back from the USA and, boy, are my arms tired. Or something like that. And before you can say “looks like winter has arrived in Israel”, it looks winter has arrived in Israel. Because at least in the places I’ve lived, we only have two seasons: ”Jesus Christ, I can solve [...]
It’s the “Occupy Bamba Comedy Tour!”
Shalom from a suburban Starbucks somewhere in North America. As I wrote on FB and Twitter a bit ago, if aliens ever do invade Planet Earth, they should disguise their spaceship as a Starbucks. The United States will enter the mothership willingly. Is there any Starbucks line that is too long for people, especially at [...]
The Idiot’s Guide to Yom Kippur
Check it out….we made it into Jpost. Kol Nidre. The Day of Atonement. Shabbat Shabbaton. Whatever you want to call it, we’re just hours away from Yom Kippur. Such a holy day…but what exactly is this special day? No time to waste, the gates are closing. Without further ado, here is an Idiot’s Guide to [...]
Tel Aviv Light Rail Pool: Turning Lemons Into Limonana
People, these are heavy days in the Jewish state. Worldwide condemnation….relations with our neighbors heating up… WHO CARES!? YIYEH B’SEDEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!! Why sweat the small stuff when we have bigger falafel balls to fry? You want problems? I’ll give you problems. After roughly 87.2 bajillion years of waiting and delays, the Jerusalem light rail finally launched [...]
