Category: what a country
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National Cleaning Day for Israel.
Here’s some more encouraging news about creating a clean Israeli environment: Israel to set National Cleaning Day Knesset approves bill to set national cleaning day some time in the spring. Soldiers, students, educators and concerned citizens to take part in cleaning up Israel, in hopes of promoting environmental preservation awareness (Ynet) Found this article from…
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Drink to your own security.
My husband is at the Knesset today for a meeting. He was standing in the security line, which you can imagine is pretty intense over there in the Knesset. They went through pretty much everything, which is a lot more than they do at airports. Even more, we’re all used to getting rid of our…
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Ynet resourcefulness.
Does anyone else find it funny that Ynet used very little resourcefulness to fill in an appropriate stock photo for this article, under which they captioned it, ‘Resourcefulness’?
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Presenting: the sukka boat.
Like the water? Even on Sukkot? No problem. You can build a giant sukka on a giant boat: Big boat… …big sukka. Found on the Herziliya marina yesterday.
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Making an ass out of Israeli marketing.
Anise: it’s the stuff behind arak, licorice, a new flavor of Wrigley’s Airwaves gum… …and it’s the butt of waaay too many inappropriate jokes, courtesy of the company’s Israeli distribution sector:
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Sex and the Holy City…
…and I’m not referring to Israeli TV show Srugim, although from what I’ve heard, maybe I should be. Riding on the bus through town today, I spotted this piece of culture sunbathing with all the rubble of the Yaffo – light rail construction site: The Kama Sutra in Hebrew. Even Jerusalemites need a few new…
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Welcome home, me.
I’m back, I’m jetlagged, I’m trying to catch up with work. I get a phone call. Israeli marketing guy: Is this Mishpachat G—-? Me: Yes. Israeli marketing guy: Are you the wife? Me: Yes. Israeli marketing guy: I’m calling from Makor Rishon, a dati leumi newspaper and we’d like you to join our readership, bla…
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Welcome to eretz.
Monday, the day I left New York, I met a friend in the city to hang for a bit; he just moved to New York from Tel Aviv so his perspective is still fresh. The conversation came to the usual point, of how impersonal New York is and how in-your-face Israel is. I forget that…
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For purple mountain majesties…
The following are 1/10 the amount of photos I took in the last 48 hours I’ve been in Colorado visiting family. It was hard to pick out just ten, and even that is a ridiculous amount to post. But guess what? The Colorado Rockies are breathtaking and I’m a country girl now. Ok, the Judean…
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Only in America…
There are certain things that are inherently American, like baseball and apple pie. To add to the growing list in my mind, I present to you… iPod vending machine at JFK airport: Starbucks drive-thru in Longmont, Colorado:
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And now, a little bit about Gsus…
Since I’m already on the topic of religion and conversion, and since Israel is a ridiculous place even without all that, here is an image courtesy of Tel Aviv’s Ibn Givrol that you can feel free to nail into your head… Does the crown of thorns come in extra small? Gsus Sindustries. Based in Amsterdam.…