Month: January 2007

  • City feature: Tel Aviv

    Me and Tel Aviv are like those cousins you have that aren’t blood relatives, but you see each other every Pesach or something. Here are some photos I took of the ‘White City‘ in 2004, on the trip I took before my aliyah jazz. Tel Aviv, like Jerusalem, can be a city of contrasts at…

  • Today was Bring Your Wife to Work Day.

    I couldn’t trust myself to finish my paper – due tomorrow – at home. Not with all that music videos, the internet and my kitchen have to offer. Not when I’d find anything else to busy my time – even washing dishes – rather than sit down and work. So, armed with the laptop and…

  • Superbowl vs. super gooooal!

    Been living in Jerusalem two years, currently residing in Katamonim, and I haven’t been to a Beitar Yerushalayim game? Got a call after shabbat to join some Aussies to watch the game; we are no longer Beitar-virgins. The fact is, we couldn’t have rooted for Ashdod if we had wanted to; if you’re a Jerusalemite…

  • Salt treaties.

    Ok, I know this is weird. We bought a gift, this set of salt and pepper shakers that are two – things – hugging each other. C’mon, it was cute… …enough for me to do a little salt ‘n peppa photo shoot. And it fits so well with my budding mediation schemes. Hugging? Black and…

  • Mediator-love goes 'round.

    Part 1 Wow, I got blown away this morning when I checked my email to find a message from Geoff Sharp, a commercial mediator in New Zealand. First of all, his name sounds so familiar and I’m fairly sure I’ve come across it in my mediation studies several times. Second of all, a big fancy…

  • Burger potential.

    I call it: Potential or, alternatively, waiting 45 minutes to get a decent burger from Jerusalem’s classic sellout since 1999, Burgers Bar.

  • Cool facts about Israel.

    For some people (not really me) this stuff never gets old. So for you guys, here’s “cool facts about Israel” and some really decent photographs:

  • Home Center homey!

    It’s the same guy who loves Rami Levi. Another token in the love affair with Israeli commercialism:

  • Mediation on the brain.

    So my intense last-minute focus on this narrative mediation paper has really got me thinking again; at least, thinking about mediation. While I don’t necessarily agree with all narrative mediation has to say, I do think looking at the world as a series of stories – lacking any one truth to prove – has its…

  • Dead for deadlines.

    Bar Ilan University is officially out for between-semesters break. That is, unless you have finals. Then you’re screwed. I don’t have finals, but I have tons of fun in the form of papers. I owe two papers from last year: One on narrative mediation and the other covering the Jewish language war in pre-1948 Palestine.…

  • So long, Stella.

    I had been contemplating it for a while and came to the conclusion – not on my own, though – that Stella needed a better living situation (and so did my husband). I realized that there was no way my apartment could feel harmonious with those two animals living on top of each other. I’ve…

  • Free calls to Israel!?

    UPDATE: Apparently the site I reviewed below is now defunct. This page gets a lot of traffic so I thought I’d help out by saying that Skype is a decent option and so is Israel’s very own JaJah. I have friends who use Rebtel, which I find a little convoluted. Google Talk is my main…