17 Mar De What???
Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about my effort to buy Pant Steak from the store. That was just the most recent example of my attempt to read English words in Hebrew which all Americans know are the toughest ones to make out....
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11 Mar Where Do I Find an Ulpan for English?
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Hello, my loyal readers. Sorry for the recent lack of posts. Life as an oleh chadash is busy as always and I’ve had a packed few weeks with stand-up shows and other things. A couple weeks back, I was asked to perform for at a...
22 Jan Inaugural What War Zone Caption Contest
I feel like this is notable so I'm posting it. Blogger now supports Hebrew and Arabic! What do you have to say about that, my loyal readers? Best caption wins a prize....
29 Oct ”This is the Sound that Israelis Make When Trying to Get a Thought Out…”
Games are fun, my loyal readers. Rare is the occasion in adult life that we get to play them but when we do, it's always a fun time. As childhood turned into college, Chutes and Ladders and Monopoly gave way to good fun...
20 May Just for the Taste of It
So I like to make fun of my Israeli friends. It's fun. The way they put the "s" in the wrong place, like "its depend" or "what its mean"...
19 Apr It’s Another Installment of Ulpan Adventures…ONLINE!!!
It’s Christmas in April, my loyal readers! More Ulpan adventures! I and my fellow immigrant friends recently took a field trip down the hall to the computer lab to do some online Hebrew tutorials. Ayze kef! Why are classroom workstations always so outdated? I think mine was...
21 Feb Ulpan Adventures….They’re Baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With apologies to Fiona Apple, I've been a bad, bad boy. When life gets hectic, the first thing that suffers is Ulpan attendance. It's a horrible shame because as many of my Israeli friends tell me, learning Hebrew should be right at the top of...
16 Feb The Mother of All ”Yiyeh B’seders”
As I detailed a few months ago, one of the national slogans here is "Yiyeh B'seder (it will be ok)". There's no situation yiyeh b'seder can't handle. It's the Clorox bleach of phrases. I recently witnessed the mother of all yiyeh b'seders when talking with my...
29 Jan ”Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on…..ehhhhh……”
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I recently talked to my friend Noga who's been following my adventures. I was interested but not surprised by her impressions of my writing. She was a tad irked (ech omrim "irk"?), not as much by what was on this site as much as what...
12 Dec ”Shalooooooom, Newman”
Nothing better than a Seinfeld marathon, broadcast on Shabbat. The funniest show ever...