Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Sukkot: Shake well.
Cute video tribute to Sukkot, a completely underrated holiday outside of Israel… Also, chocolate milk in Israel is pretty awesome, too. Not a big fan of all the Glee-tastic music videos that come out around the Jewish holidays. This though, made me smile. Good job, Yosef.
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Bebe update: Six months.
Can’t stop thiiiis… moving, crawling, slimy-slugging-across-the-floor creature. Wriggle wiggle jiggle-out-of-my-hands-when-I’m-changing-your-diaper creature. Places to go, toys to goo. No teeth yet though. Keep that goofy grin going, little lady.
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A look at photojournalism, in meta.
This is really interesting. It’s a photojournalist examining other photojournalists examining their target, which is the Palestinian-Israeli story (which isn’t really the point). The reality behind the zoomed-in reality. By the way, whoever posted the video is not the creator himself so the YouTube title takes it in a more political direction than I think…
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Baby belly begone.
Me and this guy, recently we’ve become pretty ‘tight.’ There’s, apparently, something comforting about Zack Morris’s older brother telling you to “hang in there, gang!” Well, it’s Day 3 and I still did it. Aaaand breathe!
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The potty process (or, toilet-training literature).
Toilet-training has officially begun. It unofficially began way before Koala was even two years old and took a serious interest in all the peeing Mama was doing (pregnant, perhaps). But in the laid-back fashion that my life is stitched in, we didn’t really try too hard. We let Koala explore the facts of toilet-training. He’d…
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Nothing like Chabad gan to start the year off righteous.
Like anything religious ever at all, the Chabad gan in Tzur Hadassah comes with its share of politics. Residents are wary over a charedi takeover. Some of the dati-leumi are at odds with the representatives. But me? I just love their gan. They run a tinokiya (baby daycare), peuton (toddler daycare) and gan chova (kindergarten).…
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Koala’s big boy party time!
On the last day of the year, here we are this morning, celebrating… Koala’s first full night with no motzetz! We had a minute or two of pitiful withdrawal face, and another 3 seconds of desperate thumb-sucking, but then he turned over and went to sleep. For the night! Toilet training has hit a new…
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PUTTING IT IN MY FACE.
The very best friends are the ones who won’t stop until you come to hang out with them in Tel Aviv and then when you’re finally there, a car ride, train ride, and bus ride later, present you with the very best stuffing-my-face-now-nom-nom-nom… Red Velvet. For months, I’ve been hearing about it and salivating over the pics…
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Aaaand, I’m officially *that* person.
I’m cutting up veggies for a salad. Huz picks up a bunch of lame lettuce leaves I’ve put to the side and throws them in the bin. “What are you doing?! I was going to put that in the compost bin I’m making!” He looks at me with wtf?! face. “Oh, I’m making a compost bin. I’m…
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The time has come to return to Israel.
They’re talking to you, Israelis. The Israeli government has been enticing Israeli ex-pats back for a while now. But it seems they’ve added emotionally heart-tugging videos to their Jewish guilt arsenal. The Returning Home Project – not just for born-diaspora Jews anymore. The campaign seems aimed at getting friends and family still in Israel to…
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You know you’re a successful immigrant parent in Israel when…
Are you an Israeli who grew up on the classics in Hebrew kids’ books? Did Ora Eyal draw your story time and color your imagination? Alternatively, are you an immigrant parent in Israel, reading your bilingual kid the classics? Loved this Eretz Nehederet clip from last season, where they reunite the now f-d up adult…
Questions? Comments? Advice?