Category: general

If members of our government aren’t going to be passionate about Israel, why should I be? I’m angry, like most other Israelis are these days. Especially those in the North and Southwest. What is anyone doing about all the shit going down on all sides of us, and amongst our own? I’m sick of governments.…

Yet another example of Israeli society borrowing from American culture (and I don’t mean the 24-hour coffee shop). It’s cool with me this time, though. I like the creative way “Cup O’Joe” is spelled in Hebrew: “Kaffe Joe/Kappa Joe” (coffee/cuppa). And we’re in dire need of a 24-hour anything in Jerusalem.

I’m not allowed to read the news anymore. At least, that’s what me-man is saying. I guess I can’t deal with it. I’m too empathetic. I’m too sensitive to worldly plight. I internalize it. It gets me down. It affects my day. But come on, how could it not when we’re dealing with this and…

After almost a month of trying it out, and despite enthusiastic encouragement from some, I have decided that covering my hair, at this time, is not feeling in harmony with myself. I think the biggest thing about it that is disturbing me is the feeling that I am being judged right away, according to the…

To be Israeli is to have your annoying relatives over one shoulder, tsking you; all the schoolyard bullies over the other, whispering threats while beating their fists; one hand tied behind your back and your other hand bleeding from picking out thorns.

I know, I know. It’s nowhere near soup season yet. But both of us were feeling run down this week, and I’ve been craving my vegetable soup since Sunday. So, like Christmas shopping in October, here’s to starting the season early:

TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY DUBLIN Sorry. But that’s a library. I’ve been feeling let down by Bar Ilan lately. I guess I always thought the people who attended and sneer about it were just being patriotically negative, like so many of us are about our hometowns or schools. But I’m feeling like the professors don’t even…

After working for an hour and a half on my assignment covering ethnocultural tension, multicultural citizenship, contact hypothesis and sustained dialogue, I left the office and waited for my ghetto bus with everyone else. There I was, holding my English newspaper, feeling 10,000 miles away from the group of teen Ethiopians sing songing next to…

The Dublin pub in Jerusalem is the closest I’ll get to Ireland for now. And it’s sooo awesome… Sigh. Ireland.

Ha. The more I am religious on my own terms, the more comfortable I am with it.I used to be deathly afraid of having to explain my weird religion to people. I should say, my weird religious practices. “So how come you can’t eat here?”“It’s… not kosher.”“But it’s bagels!” “So why can’t you come out…

It’s the… Kill Amelek game! With the Punch out Nasrallah game, we could start a collection… Says so many things about these times in which we live.

I hate Fridays in Israel. I hate that it’s a short day. I hate that everything closes at 2 even if Shabbat is at 7. I hate that if you sleep late, then you’ve lost your one day to get things done outside of work. I hate that you can’t actually plan a whole fun…