Category: general

I’m kinda getting tired of saying good-bye to people. My brother has been here since the wedding, and left tonight after an adventure consisting of running a soup kitchen, building furniture and cowboy-ing. I’d say it was a complete post-college-break experience; but I guess you’d have to ask him. He made several contributions to our…

We’re discussing if a direct life-threatening situation arose here, would we leave/when would we leave. And it’s weird because I feel like somewhere out there, a young couple in 1930s Germany was asking each other the same thing.

In other news, a commercial just came on for Star Wars: Darth Vadar walks into a bank. The guard starts to pat him down and asks, “Neshek, yesh?”

Since cable TV magically started channeling through to our apartment (not so magic, really; we just hooked up the TV and there it was) we’ve begun to morph into couch potatoes, Israeli style. The usual American TV-show suspects (Friends, Seinfeld) repeat way too often (you’ll see the same episode aired four times in 48 hours)…

It’s nearly two years since I made aliyah. There are a lot of things about the experience I’m over at this point. Some highlights of what I’m over: – ‘Making aliyah’– The intrigue of being a secular Israeli– Being called by my Hebrew name– Speaking English in the street– Visiting the States– Maps of Israel–…

The thing about living in a Mizrachi neighborhood is… everyone looks like Benny Sela.

You know how I know I’m growing up? I don’t convulse or throw-up-in-my-mouth-a-little at the thought of Justin Timberlake. Now, wait – before you write me off – it does make sense. Surely, a lot of people know they’re growing up when they get over silly pop culture, but I wasn’t so much like a…

You know you’re married when you get hit on by the hottest guy and the first person you call to gush about it is… your husband.

I didn’t have a dog in the States, but I knew (or assumed) enough about doggy etiquette by watching Americans in my area walk their dogs. Americans:– Hold their dogs on a shorter leash when passing by other people and dogs.– Rarely let their dogs run loose unless in a dog-specific park.– Are careful about…

Like back in the old country, the Israeli shopping centers are gearing up for the oncoming holiday season (it’s just minus all the green and red). Get ready to light up, folks.

Today, on strike day: two, the paper said that the government employees are striking because they haven’t been paid – in one month, three, and even twelve. Well, that sucks, and I’d strike too. Which means one painfully, frustratingly obvious thing: The government is SELFISH. And it can be as socialist as it wants, but…

I am not at Misrad Klita (Absorption office) right now. Everyone with a government paycheck is on strike. Why? Because now they have to bank (and get screwed) like the rest of us. SELFISH! I get it’s a socialist country, but it doesn’t seem very social that we, the people, should get screwed both ways.