lizrael update

The New York questions.

When Israeliborns ask where I’m from ‘b’makor’ there are usually a few follow up questions that I get after I answer I’m from New York. Por example:

Ahhh, so you lived/you have been to Brooklyn?!
Are there a lot of Arabs there?
Have you been to Harlem? Is it really scary?

I wonder if you could analyze that and [...]

A lesson from newborns and Coney Island.

Today was the most bizarre day I’ve experienced in a really long time. The same day consisted of me holding the newborn boy of a girl I consider a cousin as well as punching myself in the face on Coney Island’s Cyclone.
This pseudo cousin gave birth to her first child deep into Saturday night. [...]