Category: general

I walked into a university library today for the first time in ages. Strolling through the stacks of old books, the faint odor of yellowed crispy pages surrounding my head, I felt so invigorated: So much to do! So much to learn! There. I am a huge geek. I wear black plastic frame glasses. I…

Hi family, Just because I’m a bit far doesn’t mean Thanksgiving hasn’t been on my mind… It’s definitely one of my favorite holidays. So just to update everyone, I’m working in creative marketing for Answers.com which is based in Jerusalem and in the evenings I’m taking my courses in Conflict Managament and Negotiation (masters) near…

FYI: Thanksgiving-shabbat dinner was top. My first turkey was juicy as Israeli politics. My guests were mainly Commonwealth folk: 3 Aussies and 2 Brits. Americans outnumbered, just how I wanted it (3, including me). I was hoping for a Canadian but he couldn’t come. Thanksgiving outside the US: jolly good fun!

For now, I’m drinking apple cinnamon tea. That’s as close as I get on an Israeli workday on Thanksgiving. There’s a 7 kilo (16 pound) turkey in my fridge. A sign in my office reads:Happy Thanksgiving!Hodu l’Hashem Ki Tov! Thank God, because it’s all good…

I miss autumn so much. It’s my first away from New York. I felt it yesterday as I came out of work – getting closer to the big revolving door, I felt this chill and it smelled like Thanksgiving… and the chill reached my bones and I wasn’t wearing a heavy coat and I was…

I never put this stuff up, but this seemed clever – 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America.4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winner…

It’s a moderate rain on this first day of chol hamoed; maybe it’s the leap year causing shemini atzeret to be later or maybe it’s weather craziness everywhere. Religiously speaking, it doesn’t bode well when it rains in Israel before we’ve prayed for it (shemini atzeret).

e: i sent you the list i made. b: you really have a lot of free time over there, don’t you.e: eh, it’s a dead week. there’s two people here, i’m barefoot, frustrated, and freaked out about life. it made sense to make pointless lists. you know how i love pointless lists.b: why are you…

First part of Succot down, making this the beginning of the end of me having spent a full year in israel Shalosh-Regalim-wise. Recap: Last Pessach was in Mitzpe Netufa, up north, with crazy family; Last Shavuot was down south, Beer Sheva;and now I’ll have a complete set, with succot in Jerusalem in the succah i…

and how can i lizrael update on my yom kippur, holiest day of days, day of the holy of holies? my first yom kippur in israel, my first really terrible fast, and my first yom kippur away from my shul in staten island. let’s start with the latter: the hardest thing about my yk was…

i woke up at 6 30 after an awful awful dream… my mom came to israel to visit and then tried to trick me into coming bacl to america with her, and i nearly fell for it, for some reason… i really believed her, or i felt guilty, and then an hour before i had…

hi dad, so yesterday xxx came to my office and i let him in and he was very impressed by how ‘fancy’ and ‘serious’ it was, like an ‘american’ office… and the truth is, it resembles a nyc office to some extent… except that we are all wearing jeans…anyways, he was also very impressed with…