Category: general

Happy Purim:Wait a second, it’s missing something… Ok, now – Happy Purim: (What the hell is Purim? What the hell are these packages? Find out.)

I call it: Early Skepticism I’m wanting to express my religious frustrations but haven’t yet found the words, so this early photo expresses enough… The dual-feeling, the creeping skepticism, the blind acceptance, the sigh that wins over at the end of the day. Ok, fine, it was just a first-grade siddur party. But I do…

Today we had one of those office moments when the whole staff has to join together in the lunchroom for a corporate-sponsored education session. The topic this time was: how to use a fire extinguisher (in case of a smaller fire). And all I want to note is that it seems Israelis just want to…

There is a girls’ school up the block from me that is focused on artistic ability. For kicks they posted this sign at the top of the school:

Al Jazeera has an office inside my building. My journalistic side is curious and intrigued. My Israeli side is annoyed; why do they get to freely tramp around the country as professional journalists and Israeli citizens can’t even step foot inside most Arab ones?

There are two things present in this photo I took (circa 3 years ago) that I miss… Can you guess which?

Talpiot – a section in south Jerusalem – is known as the ‘industrial area’. That makes it sound awful, when in fact Talpiot is chock full of other things besides car dealerships, lumberyards and Russians. It’s the place to go if you want to choose from six different enormous supermarkets, if you want to get…

It’s cliche but Israel is painted with contrast. I captured my own a couple of days ago when I treated myself and a friend to coffees from an Israeli version of Starbucks that is so much better than Starbucks, on a day when I could have – and should have – been working but wasn’t.…

I stepped outside my building this morning and smelled bagel chips and then I missed New York because I thought for a second, if I was there, I could get whatever I wanted within a couple of minutes. But then I thought, I couldn’t get a good, kosher shwarma that easily. And then I thought,…

I must do this: I must give a shout out to Super Awesome San Simon Post Office Guy. That guy is just super awesome. So much so he must be an immigrant from a million years ago. Maybe from Poland. This guy is also so polite, cordial, gentle, friendly, helpful, patient and funny. I have…

I couldn’t trust myself to finish my paper – due tomorrow – at home. Not with all that music videos, the internet and my kitchen have to offer. Not when I’d find anything else to busy my time – even washing dishes – rather than sit down and work. So, armed with the laptop and…