So I’m going through my July edition of “בקיצור” (b’kitzur, in short) which is a newsletter for yishuvim in the Matte Yehuda region. It’s packed with ads and superficial articles, but once in a while there is a gem - or two - that must be shared.
Take the following advertisement, for example. It’s a sale [...]
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 [...]
I just received a tweet from a friend:
“just heard terrible news…reeling from the shock. baruch dayan ha-emet”
And I immediately went to check my favorite news services to find out what happened. First I thought Ariel Sharon, then I thought Gilad Shalit. I scoured the Israeli news sources and then spread out wider to my international [...]
I gave away the punch line in the title, but there ain’t much more to say than that. Here’s the headline of a Ynet news article from today:
Classified info exposed on Facebook
Basically, some members of the Israeli security establishment were caught with photos of classified soldiers and locations exposed on their Facebook accounts. But what [...]
I learned a new word today - or is it metaphor? - from my landlady’s son. He’s here to do some repairs and got to asking us if when we move, we’re buying or renting. He mentioned how this building we live in is a wealthy kablan’s (contractor) dream. In his words:
“All you need is [...]
Isn’t it kind of funny that different cultures - aside from having different foods, traditions and rituals - also have different spam?
Once in a while I glance over my spam folder and usually about 40% of the subject lines are in Hebrew. The Israeli spam is also different because it seems to cover a wider [...]