I attended a fascinating discussion last night called “Piercing, Tattooing, and Cutting: Traditional Sources Meet a Modern-Day Trend.” It was held in Merkaz Edna and led by Sarah Halevi, a psychotherapist from Efrat.
It was basically a review of the connections and implications of self-marking from sociological, psychological and halachic vantages. While I didn’t necessary learn [...]
Russian man with silver teeth: grumbles something in heavy accented Hebrew (or maybe it was Russian?) and points to a package of frozen dough
Me: “Slicha?”
Russian man with silver teeth: grumbles something else in Hebrew, pointing to the price
Me: looking confused
Russian man with silver teeth: smiles big, “Aaah…. Priveyet, russian russian russian russian russian…”
Me: smiles back, [...]
Nah, I’m not Australian just because I’m married to one… But the Aussie I’m married to was given Lamingtons today by an Aussie coworker in hono’u’r of Australia Day this Saturday, and he brought one home for lil ole American me. Another benefit to “mixed” marriages.
The Lamington is an Australian pastry consisting of sponge cake [...]
Recently, the Australian residents of Israel had the opportunity to vote by embassy or by mail in their federal elections. It got me thinking - since I live with an Australian citizen - about the 2008 American presidential elections coming up (come on, everyone else is talking about it this early).
Then tonight I found a [...]
Waiting for my mom at the airport this morning, I got to engage in the curious ritual that is people-watching. Airport arrival halls are the best places to people-watch.
This pre-holiday Friday morning was even more interesting.
One family particularly stood out to me. I watched a middle-aged couple - probably around my mother’s age - walk [...]