People are seriously obsessed with English in this country. Need I link to the t-shirts again? In the middle of speaking in Hebrew, someone will just - without warning - say one phrase or part of a sentence in English. I cannot...
This past weekend, I went up north to visit my friend Michael. That's Mi-kha-el (as in "who is like G-d", Hebrew), not Michael (as in Jackson, freak of nature.) Saturday morning, while I'm sitting at the table with his two kids, he starts to give...
How else to explain this story? A 27-year-old man, claiming to be a yeshiva student, decided to launch an unusual protest against a court ruling allowing stores and restaurants to sell leavened food during the holiday of Passover. The man, dressed as a haredi, arrived Monday...
Shalom, my loyal readers-I hope you all had a wonderful chag. We recently talked about Israeli reality TV but at the end of the day, this country (and much of the world) is still obsessed with American pop culture. Just last week, Channel 10 covered...
Hello, Ynet readers, and welcome to the War Zone! Put on your flak jacket and let's have some fun. Just a few quick photos before I (and the 35 pounds I just put on) hit the sack...
My anonymous field reporter "Melissa" is back with more news from the shetach (field) of Tel Aviv. This phenomenon CLEARLY deserves another post. (What aspiring What War Zone intern is brave enough to take a picture of one of these guys? Come on, college kids,...
We've aaaaaaaaall seen it. The menus with the typos. The weird-ass t-shirts. For the love of G-d, I think there's a typo in my company's freaking NAME! (As explained in the link, I'm not going to write it out here but shouldn't there be an...
And now…a look at life in Israel.(2 minutes before this exchange, a co-worker I barely know invited me to his Seder. Good Lord, Israelis are the most hospitable people in the universe.) Benji: Why are Israelis so nice? You can’t go to miluim (army reserves), we...
We laughed at their ridiculous t-shirts here...
My monthly column in the Atlanta Jewish Times's monthly supplement is out. Although I only put pen to paper a few weeks ago, it's safe to say this column has been running around my head for the better part of 15 years. This month's theme is...