Lizrael Update

Month: January 2012

  • To Ayelet Yakira Galena, z’l

    Ayelet – Who are you, that I’m sitting here crying openly in public while reading the tragic news your parents just posted? I never met you, I never spoke to you, I never held you, but through you parents’ amazing capacity for sharing and including all of us – thousands of people across the world,…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Eyes.

    During this week’s Fifty-Two Frames theme, I happened to take Bebe to the eye doctor for her first check. What I would have loved to capture was the pediatric eye doctor, who, if you can suspend disbelief for a second, was a Moroccan Colonel Sanders. He even mumbled with a sort of Southern bravado. Week…

  • Maurice Sendak teaches Stephen Colbert how to write a children’s book.

    Oddly, I’m writing about Maurice Sendak twice in one month. But dude deserves it. I guess he’s having his Betty White moment. Whatever the case, I’ll take any gem or pearl this wild thing has to offer. Please allow yourself both parts of Sendak’s recent appearance on the Colbert Report, where genius of another type…

  • Like, my baby’s so ironic.

    Just want to a take a quick sec and point out this ironic bib. I’m pretty sure ‘bibi’ is the chic brand name. But… yeah. That there is a paradox.

  • Israeli Children’s Book of the Day: Box Edition.

    Brought to you by one of my Hebrew favorites, הבית של יעל.

  • Israeli gan system, here we come.

    Yowsa. Seven years from the month I made aliyah, I’m registering my first kid to ‘gan trom trom chova’ (compulsory kindergarten registration). The Israeli gan/school system baffles me. And I get the feeling it isn’t going to get any clearer any soon. But fortunately, the education registration website experience was spectacular! Smooth form-filling, clear instructions,…

  • Israel: Environmentally-encouraging?

    Posted under a day ago, Israeli dude Evgeny Vainshtok Broitman shared a shameful scene he witnessed at יער הנשיא, a park off the 44 and 38, near Beit Shemesh. And while the crime is so disgusting, the fact that Evgeny decided to take the perpetrator up on it means there’s hope. Apparently this guy proposed…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Reflections.

    This week’s photo inspired by our getaway last week. Which feels like a year ago, since I’m already sick, my kids aren’t sleeping through the night, I have a ton of work on my plate, and well, it’s raining a lot. Bla bla life is so hard when just last week we wined and dined…

  • Mighty Morphin Silly Newspaper.

    [This post is dedicated to my brothers. And terrible journalism]. Why this is an article in Ynet is beyond me. But, then again, there’s Ynet for ya. The breaking news: This past summer, the popular Power Rangers have returned to Israeli television screens.   They’ve entered their 18th season, making it an intergenerational show, a…

  • Tzur Hadassah, painted black.

    The artist at candlelight. The kid painting with ‘tush tush’ in a blackout.

  • Gotaway.

    We did the impossible. Or at least, the impossible when you’re immigrants here alone, without close family, and then your mother-in-law comes to stay and offers to watch the kids while you go away overnight. And that’s what we did. We kept it simple: a night in a hotel in Jerusalem, a trip to town,…

  • There’s a sabra living in my house.

    First of all, today, for the first time, my kid בא נראה’d me. Secondly, OMG *this* just happened. The scene: Bebe is finished with her cottage cheese and I offer Koala the rest. Me: want to finish Bebe’s cheese? Koala: yes, I want this. <takes a bite> Koala: cottage! Me: yep, it’s Bebe’s cheese. Koala:…