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29 Sep State of the Rosh Hashana Address

Posted at 05:52h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Well, my loyal readers, I had hoped to churn out a deep, thoughtful 475 page post about my vacation (more than just my impressions of American grocery stores and US Weekly's most recent article on ______'s baby bump), all the reflection I did about my...

28 Sep I’ll Be Lucky If I Make It Another Year

Posted at 15:05h in Current Events, I Love This Place, Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

Good golly, has it really been a year since this event? Then it must be time for some pictures from the war zone! (Yes, I know I'm wearing the same shirt. I'm a Tel Avivi, nu! Black shirts are issued at the airport...

26 Sep An Israeli Live-Blogging the Presidential Debate

Posted at 22:01h in Current Events, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

After four hours of celebrating a certain special occasion at the Armadillo bar on Ahad Ha'am, I'm wide awake, baby. It's time for the presidential debate. Let's do this. 4:00 AM I just ate a full bag of bissli. It's gonna be...

22 Sep The Idiot’s Guide to Finding a Job in Israel

Posted at 08:04h in Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Thanks to those of you who "voted" for me in the JobMob contest. Here's the entry which won in its entirety. 11.5 hours till my flight...

31 Aug Live Blogging the Pre-Flight

Posted at 13:36h in Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh 0 Comments

I just wanted to use the words "live blogging." Here I am in the atrium looking all important on my laptop. (If holding a shawarma in one hand while looking at ESPN looks important.) No time for graphics...

30 Aug Lions and Tigers and Chul, OH MY!

Posted at 22:36h in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Tonight, I'm off to chul* for 3 weeks to see family and friends. I've heard that each trip over the years becomes progressively weirder and weirder which I believe already. While I am excited to walk about SuperTarget with my jaw on the...

25 Aug EXCLUSIVE: The Real Olympic Wrap-Up

Posted at 00:00h in Current Events, I Love This Place, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

Well, my loyal readers, the Olympics have come and gone once again. With the Chinese government cracking down on the free release of information and the TV networks keeping the video coverage off the internet, staying up-to-date on all the events was difficult. ...

15 Aug Can You Feel It, Baby? It’s Tu B’av!

Posted at 03:30h in Comedy, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

Can you feel it, my loyal readers? Something's in the air and it might be Tu B'av, the Israeli day of looooooooove! After wanting to get out and film for a while, it finally happened this week when I teamed up with the...

10 Aug This Day in History, Brought to You by the Letter Aleph and Rotem the Ars

Posted at 00:00h in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Editor's note: After publishing this post, I realized that I completely failed to take into account that today is Tisha B'av, the day where we mourn the destruction of the 2nd Temple, along with many other tragedies throughout Jewish history. While I almost always do...

07 Aug Good Thing They Didn’t Mention the Cats*

Posted at 00:00h in Culture, Current Events, I Love This Place 0 Comments

This has made its way around the internet for a couple of weeks now but just in case you haven't seen it, here's the relatively recent NYTimes story about Tel Aviv. Nice city we live in, right? But would it have killed the bride in...