Hello, my loyal readers! Enjoying the warm weather? I sure am. Summer is coming which means, as always, the Middle East is heating up in more ways than one. In fact, just recently, Obama and Bibi traded speeches to the American people and at the...
We're still a few hours away but since Jpost already went live with it, Chag Ha'atzmaut sameach! If you made it here from Jpost, welcome! If you enjoyed this list, then be sure to subscribe to my mailing list on the right for more hilarious...
Five days till "63 More Things about Israel" goes live! Four days if you get the paper. Stay tuned...
Good morning, everyone-are you enjoying your Pesach? Can you believe here in Israel we're more than five days into this thing? Two more and it's chametz time. (Kind of like Hammer Time but with more bread and less booty-shaking.) I spent three nights last week around...
It's 8:26 AM: do you know where your chametz is? Mine is quietly minding its own business in the cupboard, doing whatever chametz does when left unattended. I'm slowly coming to terms with Passover starting in only 10 hours, another holiday where I failed to...
Here's my newest "man on the street" video, this one sponsored by Size Doesn't Matter, a Canadian Israel advocacy initiative. Big props to my video editor Amos and my wingman Tal for making me look much better than I could on my own. ...
As I celebrate my fifth Rosh Hashana since making aliyah, I reflect on my holidays seasons here. Perhaps fewer invites this year, due to my no longer being fresh off the boat? I'm feeling the buildup less, surely because it arrives so darn...
Here I sit, in seat 45A...
You've waited all year...
Hello, teenage readers! Are you sick of listening to the Jonas Brothers? Not ready to go to frat parties and barf all over yourselves? Then perhaps a year in Israel is for you. Whereas Taglit-Birthright Israel has become the most popular short-term...