Today I spent quite a bit of time in a Jerusalem hospital waiting room; no emergency, I just needed an x-ray. In the past few months, I’ve actually frequented Jerusalem hospital waiting rooms and have been fascinated by the faces I see and the languages I hear.
I think the true face of any city is [...]
There’s only so much I can ignore the news here when things take a turn for terrible. At a certain point, it smacks you in the face and then maybe you’re tearing up at your desk with the paper on-screen or you’re cringing at the hourly news on your way home.
I’m not at that point [...]
It’s some sort of rite of passage that olim go through; the idea of “becoming more Israeli.” In this case, I don’t mean wearing flowy skirts or forgetting grammatically-correct English.
I mean the process of becoming overly defensive and jumping to attack at any flare of doubt or wrongness - the process of becoming more accusatory, [...]
Not sure I’ve ever mentioned this ‘out loud’ here before, but I maintain a second blog called Better Than Misery which covers my journey as a mediation student.
The latest post I wrote is actually relevant both here and there, so I thought I’d bring some attention to it here:
Yesterday, Haaretz newspaper did a promo of [...]
I don’t like waking up on my one-day-a-week of school and seeing this headline:
University presidents: Semester may be canceled
And I don’t like reading this in the first paragraph:
As the third week of the university lecturers’ strike gets underway, professors are not optimistic on the chances of the protest ending anytime soon. Representatives from the senior [...]
I’m taking a class this semester on conflict in organizational structure. Doesn’t seem like it’ll be that difficult; the professor is friendly and the material is familiar.
So far I’m finding it quite entertaining, actually: being taught organizational conflict - in Israel - by a middle-age tzabar, a gever-gever who served more than his fair share [...]