Lizrael Update

Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004

  • The man with a helmet who jumped from space.

    ‘An astronaut is a man who goes up to space in a spaceship.’ ‘Or a balloon!’ ‘As of today… yes.’

  • New statue alert: Dove love spotted in Tzur Hadassah

    Watch out, Hitchcock. We’ve got birds up in this piece. Or peace? Looks like Tzur Hadassah got another new art installation last week, right near the western entrance and the entrance to Har Kitron. With so many artists and sculptors and painters in town, feels pretty lucky to get prettied up once in a while. International sculptor…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Bible

    It’s amazing how much Bible exists around us when you’ve got the Book on the back of your mind… And, oh, you live in ‘the holy land.’ The holiday season… The fields of our forefathers… A trip to the Kinneret… The annual celebration of torah… Rows of pomegranate trees .. Attending a brit milah… Teaching ‘In…

  • Bebe update: Eighteen months.

    I’m not gonna lie. Sometimes, I look at you, in your eyes, and you return it with a look that scares the crap out of me. I know it’s an unfair question, but promise to always love me, ok? You’re a year-and-a-half, B, and for some reason I’ve been looking forward to this mark for…

  • Tzur Hadassah’s resident math problem.

    Status: puzzled.  Can someone explain to me how adding a brand new apartment building complex, with the capacity for 900 units, to sit on top of what is now a quite pretty nature area (which is besides the point) – can someone explain to me, how those 900 new units inside Tzur Hadassah, for which…

  • Fifty-Two Frames: Inanimate.

    Two clown princes after my heart. What’s a citizen abroad to do? Until I decide how to cast my (let’s face it) totally symbolic vote, I’m going to fantasize about all the names I may write in. Week 39: Inanimate In-animate: Me, when posed with this question. Alternatively, the options fail to  animate, move or…

  • Sukkot junior.

    Sukkot was fun as a kid, and then it was kinda ok, and then it was fun again with kids. The end. Good job, Bob. Inspection. Self control not to take a bite. Decor’d.

  • Catching up.

     

  • No-Bake Banana Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pie.

    Oh no she didn’t… Oh hell yes, she did. (And that’s why it had to be all caps in the title). I ‘baked’ if by baking I mean did this amazing 10 minute thing just now: Here’s the recipe, which I got from my friend Lisa who gets 3741083754 mitzvah points for feeding this to me…

  • The time Bibi addressed the UN General Assembly in his kindergarten voice.

    Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pretty much gave the world a deadline extension, and we’re probably going to have to bomb Iran enrichment facilities in April 2013 (wanna come for Pesach?) I’m going to skip the seriousness of the dire warmongering situation here at the UN General Assembly 2012 and instead enjoy some relaxing…

  • Shuffling through the IDF [VIDEO]

    So I’m unabashedly obsessed with this as of… 11am this morning. At the end of March 2012, Ron Bronstein enlisted in the IDF (I’m assuming as a shlav bet oleh deal) and documented the experience of going from civilian to soldier to, I guess, civilian again by shufflin’ his way through it. Love the support-despite-the-wtf of…

  • DIY craft hack: Turn DVD cases into kids’ travel coloring kits

    It was time, folks. It was long time. To empty all the kids’ DVDs from their bulky plastic cases and… well, for lack of a better idea, throw them into a drawer under the TV. But the cases… oh the thousands of cases… Ok, it was about 25. But still! So much plastic. Which I…

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