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17 Apr Mimouna: Getting in Touch With My Sephardic Side

This is post #2 of the day, my loyal readers. I have a feeling that when I post more than once in a short period, people miss the first one. And if you liked that, you have GOT to see this!!!! Did you click on...

15 Apr Quick Pesach Fun

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Only five shopping days till Seder. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!! A couple of quick kosher for Passover bits of fun...

14 Apr Fuzzy Math: 7 + 11 = 60

Posted at 01:15h in I Love This Place, Jew Stuff, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

Boker tov, my loyal readers-how are you? I was recently reminded that when someone greets you with "boker tov!" (good morning), one traditional answer to respond with is "boker or!" (morning light) I say "reminded" because I can't tell you the last time I recall...

31 Mar Purim in Sderot (Better Late than Never)

Posted at 00:00h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, Current Events, I Love This Place, Jew Stuff 0 Comments

Is it too late to talk about Purim? Because of camera issues, I didn't have my pictures till now but I don't want to let it go by without at least a quick recap. (Usually when I preface an email with "in short", I proceed...

23 Mar How Can Someone Wet Her Pants But Still Conjugate in Passive Tense?

Posted at 06:15h in I Love Hebrew, Jew Stuff, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Good morning, my loyal readers-I hope to have my Purim update online in the next 24 hours. I’m having some logistical issues in the camera department which will be resolved soon. As always, it was a nice holiday experience. I hope you all had a...

18 Mar Idiot’s Guide to Israeli Weddings, Part Shtayim

Posted at 06:45h in Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff 0 Comments

Guess where I went last night? A wedding! Good times had by all…mazal tov, Mark and Hadar! As an addendum to last week’s Idiot’s Guide to Israeli Weddings, here are a couple more observations I forgot to include. Read that first if you haven’t already… --Upon entering...

13 Mar An Idiot’s Guide to Israeli Weddings

Posted at 12:20h in Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff 0 Comments

Well, my loyal readers, the weather’s heating up. You know what that means: that’s right…love is in the air. Wedding season is upon us so you best be prepared for it, Israeli-style. I had the privilege of attending a couple of weddings recently which gave...

04 Mar Haaretz Gets in Touch With Their Inner Tupac

Posted at 10:48h in Current Events, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

YO YO YO, MY LOYAL READUZ!!! This is MC B-Love, kickin' it from the 03 in TA. EAST SIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!! I want to focus today on my main man Moziz. Moziz be CRAAAAAAAAAAY-ZEEEEEEE! I knew it for a while, you know what I'm sayin', but I don't know if...

22 Jan Who Wants to Spank a Tree?

Posted at 13:29h in Culture, I Love This Place, Jew Stuff, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

I feel like the story of Tu B'shvat was started as some kind of a practical joke and then continued over the years (why does this sound familiar?...

09 Jan Michael Steinhardt Can Not Be Happy About This

Posted at 12:16h in Jew Stuff, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Hot off the presses. Just a couple of hours ago, I visited a friend of mine at Tel Aviv's Independence Hall who is staffing a birthright israel trip. That's Independence Hall, the building where Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion addressed the nation and signed...