Now I’m Just Being Silly

28 Apr You Wanted It?…YOU GOT IT! ”61 More Things I Love About Israel!”

Posted at 19:44h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Now I'm Just Being Silly, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Inspired by last year's "60 Things I Love About Israel", without further ado, here are 61 more things I love about Israel. (We made Jpost again this year...

26 Apr This Doesn’t Look Weird or Anything

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Welcome to my community, Swine Flu! Want to come for Shabbas dinner?...

11 Apr State of the Blog/Inaugural WWZ Mailbag!

Posted at 07:10h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Culture, Now I'm Just Being Silly, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

You wanted the best, you got the best! So goes the name of the Kiss live album. Well, this is the best I've got, my loyal readers. As I said the other day, I haven't been able to post too much as of late. ...

16 Feb I Guess I’m Not as Familiar With Their Platform as I Thought

Posted at 14:28h in Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

Post 2 of 2 today...

06 Feb 25 Random Things About Yasser Arafat

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Yeah, so everybody and their Prime Minister is doing the Facebook 25 things post. Incredibly enough I've only been tagged once or twice. For the first several days, I thought "is something wrong with my account?" Or "do I just know everything...

14 Jan Who Heard That?

Posted at 07:28h in Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

A siren went off in Jerusalem last hour because: a) Missiles are on the way b) It's Yom Hashoah c) Aliens are coming to eat our brains d) Somebody screwed up Am I missing anything? Maybe it's 2 and 3 both. "I will vaporize you, earthling!...

12 Jan Am I Inappropriate?

Posted at 13:10h in Culture, I Love Hebrew, Miscellaneous, Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

I was recently told by someone close to me that my writing might suggest to people that I am taking this, ahem, matzav too lightly. I replied that my loyal readers wouldn't think so but perhaps a casual passerby might agree with him. What do...

09 Jan BREAKING NEWS: Gaza War Turns Nuclear!

Posted at 02:12h in Current Events, I Love Hebrew, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

This just in: WE'RE IN A WAR ZONE!!!! CNN said so, people, so it must be true. In fact, my camel Chumus-hump just took two bullets to the solarplexus. EVERYBODY FREAK OUT!!!!!!!!! I don't want to cause mass panic here but this conflict...

01 Jan Happy New Year from Hamas!

Posted at 02:44h in Current Events, Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

Thanks to loyal reader and Emmy-award winning friend Micha Liberman, we have a contest winner! As I asked for here, Micha managed to capture Hamas leader Khaled Meshal wearing a tacky Middle East t-shirt. I'm pretty sure he captured him on film, not...

30 Dec Live Blogging Reading about Gaza

Posted at 00:25h in I Love Hebrew, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Now I'm Just Being Silly, That Thing That Pays the Bills, The War Zone 0 Comments

6:45 AM I woke up and went to Jpost.com. 6:49 AM I went to NYTimes.com. 6:51 AM I turned on the dood. This is of far greater importance to me than anything the traditional media outlets are covering. 6:52 AM I read other...