Lizrael Update

Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004

  • Help an orphan, help the world: Donate to orphanages in Israel

    You know, we don’t think about this much. I think for too many people, orphans and orphanages are plot material for Broadway shows, TV or 19th century literature. How often do we actually give deeper thought to what it means to be an orphaned child? Who cooks their hot meals? Who supplies them with clothes,…

  • Aaaaand my daughter ate a crayon.

    I look up from the table. Bebe bounds towards me, Buddha belly first, emanating tubby tummy joy. “Heeyy!” “Ima!” “Hey!” “Cracker.” She’s pointing to her mouth which is covered in… “What? What is that? There’s no crackers here…” It looks like chocolate. “Did you go into my special cabinet?” I ask her, with a suspicion that foreshadows…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Panning

    Challenging week. I actually submitted a flaky photo – a blurry pan with pancakes – just for the sake of submitting something (I’ve never missed a week!) but in the last few hours I was lucky to ‘run’ into this opportunity… Week 5: Panning Winner gets pan…cakes.

  • Do it for the Anglo teens: Sponsor my 10k run for Team Crossroads

    Hello, it’s that time of year again where I get off my ass, get motivated by some grace of god, and run a 10k and then feel awesome about myself (then stop and procrastinate another 3-6 months). This time, I’ll run as part of the Jerusalem Marathon, and I’m going to do it as a…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Tell a Story

    Did you know? Romeo & Juliet are frozen in time, trapped in a cave on the Israeli hillside. There’s an inside joke in my family: got visitors coming from abroad? Take ’em to the stalactite cave. Ok, it’s not funny. But we find ourselves at this fascinating, nerdy, science-ridden cave of wonders once a year…

  • Tree lover.

    My lil tree hugger on Tu B’Shvat eve.

  • “It’s a wonderful country.” Did you vote in Israel today?

    On this beautiful Israel election day, in our eretz nehederet, let’s take a moment to appreciate the fact that we get to choose who screws us over. It’s actually amazing. Did you feel it today? Did you feel the country, divided, coming together? Did you feel we were united, at the very least, in feeling…

  • Tu B’Shvat in Tzur Hadassah: Pave a parking lot, put up paradise.

    Yesterday, in the morning, walking through Tzur Hadassah, I noticed this: And was all, WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Why you gotta touch my beloved valley? Why do we have to dig up the pretty parts of Tzur Hadassah we clearly don’t need for more housing or community centers? Why can’t we haz a little nature left over? Why…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Silhouette/Backlit

    Not so happy with my pic this week. I tried a few backlit options, but I don’t think I actually understood the concept until right before the deadline. It’s hard to do this with a (albeit fancy) camera phone. Week 3: Silhouette/Backlit Caged suburbia.

  • Koala update: Tale of the horse prince.

    Koala has been going through some stuff at gan lately. Boy stuff, school stuff, three stuff, soon-to-be four stuff (stuff Dr. Seuss didn’t write about this one so it looks like I may do the job for him). Anyway, on Friday I took him for a mother-son ‘adventure’ (his word, not mine) through the valley…

  • Searching Naftali Benn- oof, go home, Bibi, you’re drunk.

    Wow. So, this just happened. Heard HaBayit HaYehudi front runner Naftali Bennett got snotty on his Facebook page today, so I went to check it out. Typed out his name and – Oh, hello, Bibi Netanyahu. You crashed yet another party. Living your meme, much? Or are you a lil afraid you will one day…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Break the Rules

    Kinda like the side of the highway, where I walk in the mornings and find leftover snow to step in, for just a second, while no one’s watching – my 52 Frames photo this week is one last photographic taste of the good white stuff. Except more like street-lit at nighttime yellowish stuff. I debated…

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