Monthly Archives: 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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →