In case all that talk of crabits made you hungry, how about some tonsil skewers? C’mon, they’re a great source of unnecessariness:
Courtesy of Tzidkiyahu, a Talpiot Israeli grill joint I still love even if they serve Tonsils for 72 shekels. Unfortunately, I can’t remember what the Hebrew side of the menu said.
Is it passe to make fun of English spelling mistakes on Israeli marketing products? Eh, I still find it amusing and I’m sure one day my kids will make fun of me for the Hebrew mistakes I make in the little notes in their lunchboxes.
Anyway, I am offering a public service announcement about what is [...]
I’m sitting on my couch and I hear a scratch at the door. My first thought is, did a jackal from the forest across the street come all the way upstairs to haunt me?
My second thought is, it does, however, sound like a dog.
After peeping through the door, I realized it was a dog. [...]
As we know, there are always going to be some things that get lost in translation. And one of those things will always - always - be the weiner hot dog.
Big Willie? Really? That’s the kind of hot dog I want to eat at a gas station rest stop on erev Shabbat?
Here’s how you know you’ve developed as a student over years of Israeli grad school:
First semester of Israeli grad school, three long years ago, you were told to write an end-of-term paper using the proper guidelines of the university’s thesis policy. You scrambled to find it after being told it was ’somewhere on the website.’
After [...]
I just came across the website of the National Jewish Outreach Program, which I’ve never heard of before. It seems like a great resource though, for North American Jews who want to become more affiliated and educated in their Judaism.
What caught my eye, though, was this: Read Hebrew America/Canada. The free Hebrew reading course is [...]