Month: February 2007
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Look what I made!
Talpiot – a section in south Jerusalem – is known as the ‘industrial area’. That makes it sound awful, when in fact Talpiot is chock full of other things besides car dealerships, lumberyards and Russians. It’s the place to go if you want to choose from six different enormous supermarkets, if you want to get…
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Contrast.
It’s cliche but Israel is painted with contrast. I captured my own a couple of days ago when I treated myself and a friend to coffees from an Israeli version of Starbucks that is so much better than Starbucks, on a day when I could have – and should have – been working but wasn’t.…
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The Rolling Stones are right, again.
I stepped outside my building this morning and smelled bagel chips and then I missed New York because I thought for a second, if I was there, I could get whatever I wanted within a couple of minutes. But then I thought, I couldn’t get a good, kosher shwarma that easily. And then I thought,…
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Alive and, well…
I couldn’t stomach the Simple Life so instead I switched to a special about Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. That sentence could have a deeper meaning, couldn’t it? Since moving here, I try not to drown myself in Israeli or Palestinian sorrows too often. It’s hard, but I’ve become better at not reading beyond the…
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Shout out: SASSPOG!
I must do this: I must give a shout out to Super Awesome San Simon Post Office Guy. That guy is just super awesome. So much so he must be an immigrant from a million years ago. Maybe from Poland. This guy is also so polite, cordial, gentle, friendly, helpful, patient and funny. I have…