Category: general
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Reverse laughology.
A Thai comedy group singing “Hava Nagila”… I suppose it serves us Israelis right.
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Caring for the kalba.
I never had a dog in America. I don’t know what the vet experience is like back there. But, not surprisingly, the vet experience here is very… Israeli. I just get this feeling that the same laid-back attitude that pervades all other areas of life (especially government offices) is not absent within the walls of…
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I used to be a journalist.
I used to be a journalist. I didn’t like many aspects of it, so I stopped my advance into that profession. One thing I have found that I enjoy about the field is the collecting data for the story. Not integorrating people who don’t want to be questioned and not pushing my way through crowds…
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Who says there are no seasons?
Who says there are no seasons in Israel? At least there are enough leaves for this city worker to get paid. I call it: Guy with rake.
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Meet my little friend.
If you know me, you know I’m crazy for dogs – big, chunky, friendly, loyal, happy dogs. Dogs that run up to you when you come home. Dogs that look you in the eye. Dogs that trust you and are trustworthy themselves. Dogs are magnificent animals. For the last 24 years, I never had the…
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Israel is niiice!
Guess who‘s coming for a visit? I come to make the sexy with you (even though you are Jews)…
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Thanks, Hagshama.
I needed the number for Minhal Studentim in Tel Aviv. I never would have thought they’d be organized enough to have a website. Well, they probably don’t, but someone very wonderful found this site when searching for it. It’s a list of useful numbers Hagshama put together, hopefully mostly current. Addresses to various offices, useful…
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What's in a name?
My husband changed my last name at Misrad HaPnim today without totally-fully-100% checking with me. To see that we were doing that whole name changing thing. I went from one ridiculously Jewish last name to another slightly less ridiculously Jewish last name, but the original reflected so much to me; my priestlyness (ok, my dad’s…
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Not your mother's nuclear-attack drill.
Sign next to the elevators at Bar Ilan today (translated): Please note. At the sound of the siren, please descend below to the bomb shelter in building 604, room 105. I remember in 6th grade, learning about the 60s, and my mother telling me that in her day, in 6th grade, they had nuclear attack…
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The Israeli supermarket inefficiency theory.
Here is an amateur theory of mine: Jews are a diaspora people forced into mercantile jobs and ghetto villages -> Jews organize their lives neatly within a ghetto-based society -> Ghetto is interrupted by the Final solution and Jews get homesick -> Jews return home -> Jews become Israelis -> Israelis find themselves using all…
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The simple life is not wading through bullshit.
We were up North for the weekend (my cousin’s bat mitzvah), so we stopped off at Kibbutz Lavi, where my brother is working as a cowboy. Kibbutz life seems at first like ‘the simple life’ – but if you think farm life is like that, you don’t wake up between 5 and 6 (or earlier)…
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What being part of a minority is like.
Excellent JPost op-ed by a Jerusalem 20-something. “Why I’ll be marching this Friday“ by Yonatan Leibowitz The highlights I’m pointing out – because I’m kinda tired of reading and talking about the parade – are more about this guy’s experience with his sexuality. “On November 5, 1995 I wore a kippa all day for the…