Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Jewishly speaking…
On the Jewish calendar today is ב’ אייר, which happens to be the date on which Koala was born last year. So happy first Hebrish birthday to my Koala! I’m sorry that you’re feeling ill today… I’m sorry you have two or three new teeth coming in… I’m sorry I won’t let you play with…
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You know you share your bathroom with a baby when…
Not that I mind.
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Jerusalem of Brown.
It’s unfortunate that we’re still abused with news stories about Jerusalem Holyland scandals. Or Olmert. Whatever. That’s what we happened to be talking about on our way to our offices in Jerusalem today when we noticed the dirty skyline from Gilo hilltop: Paging Pig-Pen? At first we posited that it was a dust storm but…
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Car seat FAIL.
Aright, I know in Israel they are really into putting car seats in the front, but c’mon… #FAIL.
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Zurich Airport is child-friendly.
We flew back to Israel last week as a family; no solo parenting flights from hell this time. Phew is exactly right. It also helped that our stopover in Zurich was an absolute pleasure. I haven’t flown cross-Atlantic with a stopover in 8 or 9 years (and that was my Lufthansa-Frankfort story, which is inappropriate…
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Something fishy…
What’s wrong/funny/ironic/totally normal (depending on your point of view) about this picture?
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Matzah in nature.
I love how you can spend a Passover day in Central Park and leave a matzah trail for all the other ‘Yids’ on vacation: Like charedis at a nature preserve, matzah bits settled on leaves and rocks is slightly out of place.
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How do you like them Apples?
Go retro! Between combing through my old bedroom for crap to throw away and bringing up the Passover dishes for the big Switch, I managed to recover two blasts from the past. The Passover dishes – for 20+ years – have always been stored in this old box: Anyone else remember growing up with the…
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Koala update: Eleven months.
We’re nearing a year and look at that, I have time to update (barely). I also have a lot of flashbacks about what this time last year was like. Childless, calm and well-rested. Ah, memories. Informal poll: Is my sabra the only one to have ‘todah’ (thank you) be his first functional word? Just wondering…
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Who needs aliyah?
Why bother making aliyah from New York City? In the span of four days, I’ve managed to: pass the Holon Grocery, find a metapelet originating from Ein Karem, drive behind a טוב טעם truck. What’s next? Also, I suppose it’s logical that my son’s first exposure to fast food was today in his American daycare…
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Conversation peace.
So on Thursday, from 2 am Israel time to 5:30 pm New York time (with a 2-hour stop in Geneva), I experienced the worst trans Atlantic flight ever. Koala was a wreck. This is a boy who, when overtired, refuses to make that better by actually sleeping. Ah, yes, all kids do that, you may…
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Must be dreamin'.
There was ridiculous traffic on the dirt road leading up the hill towards Arafat’s compound. We each supposedly had meeting times but were all very late for them in any case. To the right was the beginning of the dusty compound and to the left was the beginning of the dusty hills. To get into…
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