Day of Chanukah: 2 Sufganiya count: 3 A little background on the doughnut that became the token Chanukah sufganiya: Jelly doughnuts, known as Sufganiyah (סופגניה, pl. Sufganyot סופגניות) in Israel have become a traditional Hanukkah food in the recent era, as they are cooked in oil, associated with the holiday account of the miracle of…

I wish that if people really believe this, they’d talk about it more… Especially the president… If you believe in the war, why didn’t you encourage your own daughters to fight for your country? Or did you?THE PRESIDENT: I believe Americans can contribute to the security and well-being of our country in a variety of…

This is how it goes down on the second night over here:

I’m sitting at the back of the 18. So is the old guy behind me; the old guy behind me who is wearing a pastel pink hat, a baby blue scarf, a 70s-style blazer, cow-print velvet pants, a multi-colour tie, and blasting earphones. He gets up suddenly and starts clapping his hands. I’m a New…

Ministry of Immigrant Absorption aliyah statistics: Total Immigration to Israel: Year No. of Immigrants % Distribution 1989 24,300 2.0% 1990 200,170 16.4% 1991 176,650 14.5% 1992 77,350 6.3% 1993 77,860 6.4% 1994 80,810 6.6% 1995 77,660 6.4% 1996 72,180 5.9% 1997 67,990 5.6% 1998 58,500 4.8% 1999 78,400 6.4% 2000 61,542 5.0% 2001 44,633 3.7%…

A weird irony about Jewish models is that their faces are glamorous and their names are – sometimes not. For instance: Yael Goldman sounds like she could have been the girl who got straight A’s in high school and got married after seminary. But look at her:I mean, maybe she did get straight A’s in…

I’m kinda getting tired of saying good-bye to people. My brother has been here since the wedding, and left tonight after an adventure consisting of running a soup kitchen, building furniture and cowboy-ing. I’d say it was a complete post-college-break experience; but I guess you’d have to ask him. He made several contributions to our…

We’re discussing if a direct life-threatening situation arose here, would we leave/when would we leave. And it’s weird because I feel like somewhere out there, a young couple in 1930s Germany was asking each other the same thing.

In other news, a commercial just came on for Star Wars: Darth Vadar walks into a bank. The guard starts to pat him down and asks, “Neshek, yesh?”