Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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The magic of being bilingual.
On the way to gan this morning, Koala spotted a firetruck on the road. Obviously, this made his morning, and for the rest of the way cried out in excitement, “Fire truck! Fire truck woke up! Fire truck is here!” He was still talking about it as we walked up to the gan door, so…
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Retro Europe: the anti-Semitism still spills the blood of children in 2012.
In case you were feeling lost in the big bad world today, the world of terrorism, bus bombs, embassy bombs, car bombs, nuclear bomb threats, rocket launchers… Today we are exposed to some run-of-the-mill old fashioned European anti-Semitism. Of the absolute worst kind: the cold-blooded point-and-shoot murder of Jewish children. In 2012 France. The gunman…
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Nightmare: being a black boy’s parent in America.
I’m gonna do a lil Jon Stuart here and shift the focus to Camera 2: America. May I have your attention? I have a question for you. For us. It goes like this: What the fuck? The Trayvon Martin story. This 17-year-old boy was killed in cold blood when a 28-year-old community nightwatchmen (not a…
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Portal into a parallel universe.
Runners up for my Fifty-Two Frames submission this week. Don’t you ever want to drive straight through to the other side of whatever the hell it is?
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Fifty-Two Frames: Vehicles
It hasn’t been my week regarding vehicles. Perhaps that’s precisely why this week’s Fifty-Two Frames theme is appropriate. Week 11: Vehicles A small boy’s paradise. Taken on Friday in Mitzpe Netufa, Northern Israel.
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Israel <3s Iran. Do you?
Apparently, Israel <3s Iran after all. Or, it’s super simple to set up a website where people can submit photos of themselves to be overlayed with ‘Iranians we will never bomb your country. We love you.” Sigh. Iranians, I’m sure you’re as lovely, hot-headed, expressive, stubborn, artistic, annoying as we Israelis are. I say that with…
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Satire spotted on the internets?!
Maybe that Old Spice Guy served a purpose after all. Hello members of the U.N., Take a look at yourselves, now back to me, now back at yourselves, now back to me. Sadly, you’re not me. But if your cities got bombarded by 220 rockets in just 3 days, maybe you could feel like me.…
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Shimon Peres’ writing on the Wall.
Is there anything this cutie can’t do to make us smile? Now that he’s Mr. President – and finally found a job he fits – Shimon Peres just keeps getting better and better. Like when I watched him interviewed by Barbra Walters on The View last month… (?!) Now he’s gone and seen the writing…
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Some kind of ‘mom rite-of-passage.’
So… this happened. After picking up the kiddos, deciding to be spontaneous, bypass the way home, stop in Mevo Beitar to let the kids play in the way-better park, call up Koala’s lil bestie to come, split up an hour later to drive home, put the kids in their car seats, shut the doors, and…
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Fixing.
Sweet little innocence. Passing through the checkpoint outside my town on the day my kid was building Lego drills and ‘drilling’ walls at gan: “Koala, do you see those people wearing green?” “Yes. [referring to their guns] They are fixing.”
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Fifty-Two Frames: Silhouette.
This week’s photo is inspired by the work-from-home blues. It’s been over six months since I started as a WAHM, as they say. (Wham! You now work the double-shift at LIFE!) With the help of my biggest window’s soragim, and a bird as free as a Facebook account, my representation of this week’s photographic theme……
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Bebe Does America.
In short, it was a time of reflection for Bebe. Considering the murky waters of the Staten Island beach. Considering her first NYC subway ride. Considering the thousands of names at the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero. Considering the shortest flight she’s ever taken. Considering the very different waters of the marina in West Palm…
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