Month: May 2006

( Here is some light reading if you have no bomb shelter to build right now. )

We bought a whole bunch of extension cords today (to set up an office). I feel slightly more committed to Israel now; slightly more like a permanent resident. Why? Because after almost a year and a half, if someone asks me for an extension cord, I can reply, “Sure, what size?”

[How do you express frustration properly in typed script?] Wedding planning is not fun for me. It’s been very smooth, eventless, which is what most engaged couples probably desire. So for that I’m thankful, because I certainly didn’t need the extra stress in my life of already working a full time job and going to…

Happy Herzl Day! So Theodore Herzl officially received his own day, and here it is on the 10th day of Iyar. He’s the guy who founded the Zionist World Congress in 1897 and pushed for Zionist awareness putting a modern state of Israel in the forefront of people’s minds. I tink it’s silly to argue…

The key to the siren is to let it be natural; to not expect it and to not anticipate it. Then you are really being frozen in time and place; then your day is truly interrupted. [AP photo, courtesy of Jpost] [Apparently the siren is a secular, ‘goyish’ concept. Some argue for Kaddish to be…

התקוה בת שנות אלפים, להיות עם חופשי בארצנו…” – התקוה…”Hope born two thousand years; to be free in our own land…

Today I appeared in court (for me) for the first time ever. …And it was a religious court. To prove I’m Jewish and single. That involved dragging two friends with me. The problem is I don’t know many people here from the Old Country. By the end (the whole thing only took 25 minutes) it…

Only in Israel… …Do they publish “Good luck in the Army!” cards. One of them had: 3 years in the army… full of fun. 36 months in the army… full of friends. 1,095 days in the army… full of adventure. 1,576,800 minutes in the army… full of peace.