This is terrible. It’s the first time, even with last summer’s disengagement, that I feel unprotected by the IDF. That the IDF seems clumsy to me, like they wouldn’t be able to deal with 100s of scenarios that could happen tomorrow. It wasn’t the missed targets in Gaza that did it, though they helped. Gilad…

The country is stirring with the news of kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.What steps to take?Trade prisoners?Who to knock out?When does Peretz go?Etc., etc… But we can count on MK Lieberman to provide vengeful smiles on our faces in the midst of it all:“MK Lieberman calls for Israel to kidnap Palestinian PM Haniyeh“

I just came from a kalla class and about to go to a wedding. I’m torn about what to do about covering my hair and keeping full niddah laws. I guess this is very personal, or supposed to be. Anyway, I haven’t felt religious in a long time, and religious to me has been in…

I spent this evening meeting with Israeli shlichim who are about to embark on individual trips across the world to engage diaspora Jewry in their home diaspora communities. I was asked to be there as a recent oleh, to discuss the process from the oleh’s point of view and to discuss/warn of my home town’s…

Working for an American hi tech company in Israel is sometimes like working in an American hi tech company in America. Most of the time, though, it’s not. I majored in English and Political Science in my BA and have experience in journalism and political actvisim. Is that enough to get me a pretty damn…

As a new week unfolds, with its own deadlines, traffic and nothing to eat in the fridge, I’m hoping that this is the kind of week it might turn out to be: [This photo is from mid-June when a delegation of sumo wrestlers visited Israel. I think we all found it most funny when dozens…

Here’s how to be a poster child for the Anglo Singles’ Aliyah Movement.It goes with my theory that everything an Anglo needs to get married is located on the Emek Refaim strip. Someone has to host the Friday night where you end up meeting him for the first time, or where the host realizes you…

I didn’t think weeks could get more stressful than last week. Then again, last week I didn’t think the week before could get anymore stressful. I don’t even know if that makes sense, but the point is, each week has been getting more stressful than the last, despite my thinking it couldn’t get worse. I…

I don’t mind Ghana beating the Americans in the Mondial today because watching this a coupla days ago was fun:

No more pencils,No more books.No more teachers dirty looks. Psych! Today was the last day of classes, but that doesn’t mean I still don’t have 3 papers due “at some point” in the summer and 3 finals two weeks before my wedding. Oh, and preparing my thesis topic. That’s because there is a major cultural…

Walking across campus today, in a 15 minute span, I heard: *Hebrew*English*French*Russian*Arabicand…*Sign language (Ok, didn’t hear that last one…)

There have been two little ants crawling around my bathroom floor for the last week. I don’t kill them because their existence doesn’t bother me, unlike some creatures. Ok, I’m actually warming up to the smaller yellowish jukim. I’m from New York, for god’s sake. I’ve had a cockroach crawl up my thigh. A New…