Month: June 2006

  • Shaggy-haired naivete.

    When I see this boy’s face, I think of you. There you are, smiling at me on the news. It reminds me that I miss you. And then I think about how I’m glad you’re not here anymore.I hated teaching you about safety seats on the bus. When you were here, I worried, because you’re…

  • Catty Katamon revisited.

    So a guy I know did an amazing thing.Call it social commentary, call it mean, I don’t care. It’s funny: See more here.

  • "If God wills it."

    There’s a saying in Jewish: אם ירצה הBasically, “If God wills it.” This saying is probably the most loaded in Judaism when spoken to single Jewish women in the Orthodox community in the phrase “Soon by you.” Brides, married women, and anyone else really will say this to a Jewish single lady at a simcha,…

  • Israeli Disheveled Forces?

    This is terrible. It’s the first time, even with last summer’s disengagement, that I feel unprotected by the IDF. That the IDF seems clumsy to me, like they wouldn’t be able to deal with 100s of scenarios that could happen tomorrow. It wasn’t the missed targets in Gaza that did it, though they helped. Gilad…

  • "Kidnap PM Haniyeh!"

    The country is stirring with the news of kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.What steps to take?Trade prisoners?Who to knock out?When does Peretz go?Etc., etc… But we can count on MK Lieberman to provide vengeful smiles on our faces in the midst of it all:“MK Lieberman calls for Israel to kidnap Palestinian PM Haniyeh“

  • Trying for caring kalla.

    I just came from a kalla class and about to go to a wedding. I’m torn about what to do about covering my hair and keeping full niddah laws. I guess this is very personal, or supposed to be. Anyway, I haven’t felt religious in a long time, and religious to me has been in…

  • Playing messenger.

    I spent this evening meeting with Israeli shlichim who are about to embark on individual trips across the world to engage diaspora Jewry in their home diaspora communities. I was asked to be there as a recent oleh, to discuss the process from the oleh’s point of view and to discuss/warn of my home town’s…

  • Just another manic Sunday…

    Working for an American hi tech company in Israel is sometimes like working in an American hi tech company in America. Most of the time, though, it’s not. I majored in English and Political Science in my BA and have experience in journalism and political actvisim. Is that enough to get me a pretty damn…

  • A floating-sumo-wrestlers kind of week?

    As a new week unfolds, with its own deadlines, traffic and nothing to eat in the fridge, I’m hoping that this is the kind of week it might turn out to be: [This photo is from mid-June when a delegation of sumo wrestlers visited Israel. I think we all found it most funny when dozens…

  • How to be a poster child for the Anglo Singles' Aliyah Movement.

    Here’s how to be a poster child for the Anglo Singles’ Aliyah Movement.It goes with my theory that everything an Anglo needs to get married is located on the Emek Refaim strip. Someone has to host the Friday night where you end up meeting him for the first time, or where the host realizes you…

  • Praying for rockbottom…

    I didn’t think weeks could get more stressful than last week. Then again, last week I didn’t think the week before could get anymore stressful. I don’t even know if that makes sense, but the point is, each week has been getting more stressful than the last, despite my thinking it couldn’t get worse. I…

  • The extent of Mondial for me.

    I don’t mind Ghana beating the Americans in the Mondial today because watching this a coupla days ago was fun: