Month: August 2006

I know, I know. It’s nowhere near soup season yet. But both of us were feeling run down this week, and I’ve been craving my vegetable soup since Sunday. So, like Christmas shopping in October, here’s to starting the season early:

TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY DUBLIN Sorry. But that’s a library. I’ve been feeling let down by Bar Ilan lately. I guess I always thought the people who attended and sneer about it were just being patriotically negative, like so many of us are about our hometowns or schools. But I’m feeling like the professors don’t even…

After working for an hour and a half on my assignment covering ethnocultural tension, multicultural citizenship, contact hypothesis and sustained dialogue, I left the office and waited for my ghetto bus with everyone else. There I was, holding my English newspaper, feeling 10,000 miles away from the group of teen Ethiopians sing songing next to…

The Dublin pub in Jerusalem is the closest I’ll get to Ireland for now. And it’s sooo awesome… Sigh. Ireland.

Ha. The more I am religious on my own terms, the more comfortable I am with it.I used to be deathly afraid of having to explain my weird religion to people. I should say, my weird religious practices. “So how come you can’t eat here?”“It’s… not kosher.”“But it’s bagels!” “So why can’t you come out…

It’s the… Kill Amelek game! With the Punch out Nasrallah game, we could start a collection… Says so many things about these times in which we live.

I hate Fridays in Israel. I hate that it’s a short day. I hate that everything closes at 2 even if Shabbat is at 7. I hate that if you sleep late, then you’ve lost your one day to get things done outside of work. I hate that you can’t actually plan a whole fun…

Just when I thought there was nothing to ponder today: Online guide: Killing ‘infidels’ Islamic website offers tips on killing foreigners in Saudi Arabia, tells potential attackers murdering foreigners easier than they think …The document details several possible ways to kill western victims and provides tips on selecting them, following them, and finally murdering them.…

I’ve been trying to help my brother find his volunteering niche for his stay here in Israel, and the latest idea has been the Israel-volunteer organization, Livnot U’Lehibanot. Here there are two centers, one in Jerusalem and one in Tzfat, and since we’re seeking something that involves handiwork and building, Sfat seems like the place…

I’m thinking of canceling my subscription to the Jerusalem Post. It’s not their own fault; I just don’t want to read what they are saying anymore. What they are saying isn’t really their own fault either. It begins to hurt to read the paper here everyday. Disappointment is painful and I feel like being Israeli…

We went to a wedding last night; our first since our own… which is such a better experience, in the way that we get to eat red meat, dance our asses off, chat people up, and we’re not the center of attention (or paying for it). It’s more… breathable. Anyway, this couple had mixed dancing…

…כיסוי ראש …or, literally, ‘head covering’, really ‘hair covering’. Married Jewish women have been, for ages, covering their hair out of modesty and a symbol of being a married woman. Today, it’s certainly not as popular; back then, cultures of non-Jewish women did that too. It was part of the whole cultural divide between the…