Hello, my loyal readers, from the calm before the Hurricane Ike storm! I don't want to toot my own horn too much but I just made national news on CNN. Good thing we stocked up on doggie chewtoys. (Ech omrim "doggie chewtoys"?) "Twenty-two foot wall of fury"? Nope,...
Shalom from the Gulf Coast of Texas! Hey, kids, did you hear about the impending hurricane? If you're reading this from the Houston area or possibly from anywhere with CNN, you may have detected some sarcasm there. Good LORD...
Seriously, America-that's nasty. What can you say? The best thing I can say about McDonalds is that I ate a kosher for Passover chicken sandwich last spring. That was cool. Wandering around the airport yesterday, I was unable to believe how much fruits and vegetables...
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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...
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...
People, Israel turned sixty earlier this month; it's gonna be a year-long party. And the good times just keep on coming. (Here's the wrap-up which I posted Friday with some great video coverage.) My poor roommate is having surgery on Tuesday (that's not the...
This is about all I have energy to post...
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...