Life on the Home Front

04 Jan SAY IT! SAY IT!

Posted at 01:00h in Culture, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -Some old dude B-Shakes knew what he was talking about. The rose may smell as sweet but they're not calling it the same thing all around the world. Whether...

02 Jan What, You Were Expecting Paul Shaffer?

Posted at 08:48h in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Another reminder to RSS readers...

11 Dec Damn You, Bird

Posted at 03:39h in Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

To the bird who lost his bowels on my In N' Out shirt on the clothesline...

09 Dec Hey, Thanks for the Support

Posted at 09:27h in I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front 0 Comments

Another one from Israelity...

20 Nov Who Felt That?

Posted at 04:47h in Current Events, Life on the Home Front 0 Comments

Either that was G-d telling me I need to post more or I just felt an earthquake. I thought it might just be something in my building until my friend Laz in Jerusalem just confirmed it. No word on the news sites yet. 12:00 PM ...

11 Nov ALIENS HAVE INVADED DELTA!!!!!

Posted at 03:09h in Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

I am not one for conspiracy theories but something is amiss in Delta-Israel! Please see the letter I recently received from their customer service department after having problems during a recent check-in. Some of the red flags: "Thank you...

26 Oct If I Move Back to America, This Will Be Why

Posted at 06:17h in Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Security? SECURITY??? When people say life in Israel is hard, this is what they're talking about. My socks, after falling to their tragic death. WHY DON'T THEY SHOW THIS ON CNN??? Fortunately, we have waitresses that look like this to make us forget about laundry stress. My visiting...

10 Oct Arnona, Part II

Posted at 10:30h in Benji's Getting Serious, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

As a follow-up to this, I just figured out how to calculate my share of the arnona bill. For a 3 person apartment, divide the total (discounted) bill by 21 to arrive at the oleh's share. For a 4 person apartment, divide by 31...

10 Oct I Think I’m Going to Name My First-Born Daughter Arnona Just to Ruin Her Teenage Years

Posted at 06:45h in Benji's Getting Serious, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Ok, since I got so many answers last time, I'm going to turn this into my own little aliyah forum. (Also because I'm fascinated by my new book "The Wisdom of Crowds" and a group's ability to come up with the right answer.) If high...

23 Sep Time to Pick a New Kupat Cholim

Posted at 18:20h in Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Shalom from my beautiful mirpeset (balcony) overlooking Rothschild Boulevard, my loyal readers. It is here where I come to write, seeking inspiration for my most recent blog entry. At times, I find myself with writer's block, wondering from where my latest misadventure will appear. Just...