Category: general
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Maurice Sendak teaches Stephen Colbert how to write a children’s book.
Oddly, I’m writing about Maurice Sendak twice in one month. But dude deserves it. I guess he’s having his Betty White moment. Whatever the case, I’ll take any gem or pearl this wild thing has to offer. Please allow yourself both parts of Sendak’s recent appearance on the Colbert Report, where genius of another type…
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Israeli Children’s Book of the Day: Box Edition.
Brought to you by one of my Hebrew favorites, הבית של יעל.
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Gotaway.
We did the impossible. Or at least, the impossible when you’re immigrants here alone, without close family, and then your mother-in-law comes to stay and offers to watch the kids while you go away overnight. And that’s what we did. We kept it simple: a night in a hotel in Jerusalem, a trip to town,…
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Where Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things Are.
Loved this interview with Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator galore. Dude’s got attitude, like little Max. “Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive… and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die, OR, that blow to the head was so inspiring you come back up and…
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How’s the serenity?
That’s for you, Darl.
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Running 101: A 10k for beginners.
10k’d, bitches! Last night I ran my first race, the Jerusalem 10k. The plan was to run up to about 6 (my top so far had been 5.3) and walk the rest, maybe attempting to finish the last kilometer on a run. Instead, I ran the whole thing… whoops. How could you not? It was incredible!…
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Jerusalem night run (for mattresses).
Aaand I’m doing this. I was supposed to start the ‘running circuit’ in the Tel Aviv 10k in March 2012, but alas – F it. I’ll probably walk half of it, but it should be a nice and… relaxing? night out.
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If the shoe fits (and isn’t older than your aliyah…)
On my bucket list, which I tend to revisit before or after having a kid, is to run a marathon. I know there are all types, all distances, but I want to get to the point where I can run together with a giant group of people and feel togetherness. 10k, 20k, 548626mm, whatever. It…
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I have a daughter now.
I have a daughter now. We’ve begun to play our part in The Girl Effect. And 600 million other girls, trying to survive in the developing world – that’s beating the odds of childhood marriage, teenage pregnancy, sex slavery, HIV – need the same chance…
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Baby belly begone.
Me and this guy, recently we’ve become pretty ‘tight.’ There’s, apparently, something comforting about Zack Morris’s older brother telling you to “hang in there, gang!” Well, it’s Day 3 and I still did it. Aaaand breathe!
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The time has come to return to Israel.
They’re talking to you, Israelis. The Israeli government has been enticing Israeli ex-pats back for a while now. But it seems they’ve added emotionally heart-tugging videos to their Jewish guilt arsenal. The Returning Home Project – not just for born-diaspora Jews anymore. The campaign seems aimed at getting friends and family still in Israel to…
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1 in 4 Israeli elderly live below the poverty line (Shana Tova)
Quick shout-out to Ezrat Avot, in honor of the quickly-approaching Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year… Back in my old job, around the major holidays, we’d band together and as an office, collectively donate around 20,000 NIS to Jerusalem-based Ezrat Avot. Even though we are no longer giving together, I do hope many of us continue…