My husband is at the Knesset today for a meeting. He was standing in the security line, which you can imagine is pretty intense over there in the Knesset. They went through pretty much everything, which is a lot more than they do at airports.
Even more, we’re all used to getting rid of our bottled [...]
We’re now officially Tzur Hadassah residents, no matter what amounts of arnona tax we’ve been paying for the last six months.
We got our first shmira (security) service notice in the mail. Of course, it’s not really we, it’s more he. I’m too woman to be standing alone at gate of the yishuv, I suppose.
Basically, you [...]
It was my longest stretch between my last visit to the States, and I have compiled a quick list of things I’m mildly shocked to notice during the past two weeks I’ve been in New York:
1. Capitalism.
Oh, how I have forgotten this. My concept of capitalism has been dumbed down to long Supersol lines on [...]
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 haven’t even moved there yet, but I feel like I’m already getting cheerleader-syndrome for Tzur Hadassah. Looks like the Jerusalem Post is either reading my stuff or recognizes the quickly-growing settlement:
On Location: Between chalets and minarets
The feature article starts off like this: “Nestled somewhere between the hills of Switzerland and the mosques [...]