Category: general

another milestone in my aliyah-making declaring israeliness: i bought clunky, chunky, obnoxious, israeli shoes.they’re big, they’re bad, and they’re all mine.and i can justify a kartisiyat noar again. ha!

i’m deciding that i don’t want to be in jerusalem for the chagim. i’m not too crazy about holy days; not like it used to be anyway… sentimental… but jerusalem, as it says so eloquently in Ktuvim, is a whore. even the old city is littered with ‘foxes’. it’s depressing as hell, whether i’m religious…

something about working in modern-day Jerusalem: yesterday i was in a conference call meeting with my two bosses and our PR firm in New York. when we ended the call and reviewed the meeting, one of my bosses joked, ‘we gotta get those guys over here to see where they are calling to every week.’…

[expansion from previous entry:] well, on one hand, i’m beginning to see things how non-americans see them. i already was when i was in England for 6 months, including the month backpacking western Europe, but now i think people feel even more comfortable being honest with me because they see that i have made a…

i think that i have evolved as an american since leaving america… i think that some people do this and some don’t. i think i had it in me and here it is, growing and turning and moving around… evaluating how i grew up and how my american society shaped me and shapes itself and…

intense! Answers.com: pros: flexible, good pay, good benefits, less time, friendly relaxed atmosphere, anglo/israeli atmosphere, next to the mall (convenience), 15 min bus ride, potential for moving up within a few months, stay in jerusalem (live), can concentrate on school bettercons: not as ambitious, but still ambitious (marketing skills, people skills, management skills) Peres Center…

friend: “you’re always scared of commitment, but of course you can quit, but you’ve never ever been afraid of working hard at a job.”

hey A, i wish i could give u some inspiring examples from my own life, but its doubtful. ive been bummed for awhile. since making aliyah, i have only really felt unproductive, unadventerous, and a lot of the time, alone. depressing. aliyah was like the climax of my passion for israel, and things starting going…

hi mom, in response, i dunno what kind of news they are showing you there, but i watched it live from 11-5 yesterday, and its the most terrible thing ive seen after sept 11… little girls yelling at soldiers, crying, soldiers dragging teenage girls by their hands and feet from their houses, people burning down…

i have not been keeping close contact with many of you, so i dont know what your politics are or where you stand or how informed you have been keeping yourself on the following matters… but… it’s terrible here with the hitnakut (disengagement) and i just wanted to remind people that it is important to…

its tisha b’av today so i’m fasting because i’m nationalistic if nothing much else. i went to the tayelet last night and when i looked over the edge i saw three things: 1. orange lights of the jerusalem skyline 2. blue lights of the jerusalem skyline 3. arab teenagers and their parents picnicing on the…

hi mom, the fast was fine, i went to a lecture about looking at the holocaust and other jewish tragedies and trying to find god mixed up in it all. i also visited the tayelet nearby (promenade) and watched jerusalem as i heard aicha read. in answer to your question, my friends are generally split…