Monthly Archives: July 2009

Lizrael Update: Back-to-work edition.

Long time no lizrael update. Let’s see… Currently, I’m mentally preparing for the Tisha B’Av scene. It’s been a fairly long nine days, what with eating meat being forbidden and eating dairy being unwise. Koala has bad reactions when I … Continue reading

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When it's not a drill.

It was about 10 o’clock and I finally had the boy calm and rocking in my arms, reading superficial feature stories in the cyber New York Times. I was between starting breakfast and finishing breakfast, because Koala really needed to … Continue reading

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Koala update: twelve weeks.

The three month mark has passed. I haven’t gone insane (in a while), my hair hasn’t fallen out (too much) and I haven’t gotten sick of staying home all day with the Koala (that’s true). I’m pretty sure somewhere out … Continue reading

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Tzur Hadassah gets… sexy?

Check out this headline: Police bust cocaine lab in suburban Jerusalem Bet you’d never have guessed where in ‘suburban Jerusalem’ that took place if the subject hadn’t contained a big hint… Jerusalem police announced Thursday that they had busted a … Continue reading

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Giving lone soldiers their post-army profession.

Lone soldiers. I have no idea if that is just an Israeli concept, but what it means to us is the demographic of soldiers in the IDF who are immigrants and have no immediate family located in Israel to support … Continue reading

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My own Israeli Australia.

Just left the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv. If you happen to be an Australian married to an American and you have children together, then I don’t have to tell you how much more of a pleasant experience it is … Continue reading

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The truth about sabras.

I’ve been in this mood lately… I’m not sure what it is exactly, but it’s this subtle hostility I’ve been feeling towards my Israeli surroundings. Perhaps it was the head-on collision between two cars on the Beit Shemesh road (speeding … Continue reading

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