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09 Nov That’s Funny, I Could Have Sworn Our Version of ‘American Idol’ Was Called ‘Kochevet Nolad’

Last week, our company headed down to Arad for a two-day summer sikkum (wrap-up). With each department responsible for presenting themselves, guess which member of the North American desk got to make a fool of himself in front of everyone on video? ...

02 Nov Words That Look Like Hebrew But Aren’t

Posted at 01:00h in I Love Hebrew, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Check out the new version of Haveil Havalim, the weekly Jewish blog wrap-up, here. Guess where I live now? Yup, as of yesterday morning. Crazy. Anyway...

30 Oct BREAKING NEWS: New Beginnings (Now WHERE THE #*!?$ DO I DRINK MY HAFUCH?!?)

Posted at 01:00h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Ok, here we go. Let's do it. Jumping right in. Shalosh, arba...

28 Oct Sorry to Get Personal

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But I think I just got caught by a co-worker as I was violently yanking out a nose hair. I'm moving back to America....

05 Oct Adventures in Journalism

Posted at 01:00h in Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

As a few commenters recently discovered via the print or online editions, Jpost recently published a profile of me in their Friday paper a week or so ago. Every week or so, they have an "Arrivals" column profiling an oleh chadash or vatik (new...

12 Sep For One Weekend Only: What Hurricane Zone??? (‘YIYEH B’SEDEEEEEER!!!’)

Posted at 01:00h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, Current Events, Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, The War Zone 0 Comments

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...

06 Sep I Haven’t Had Chumus in a Week and I’m Starting to Shake

Posted at 23:15h in Culture, Current Events, Miscellaneous, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Hello, my loyal readers! Have you missed me? Six days in, Part I of my trip is over and I’m now in Texas, having spent three days in Atlanta. Before we jump right in: 1) I'm leaving my apartment. If you...

20 Aug Did That Just Happen?

Posted at 00:00h in Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, That Thing That Pays the Bills, The War Zone 0 Comments

My busy work season is just about DONE, my loyal readers, or hadn't you heard? For the last 3.5 months, I've been planning Birthright programs for one of the 25 or so trip organizers. My most recent trip is a 14 day program, as opposed...

08 Jun Good Thing I Use Bank Leumi

Posted at 01:00h in I Love Hebrew, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Just a week or so ago, I wrote about the Israeli flags this country was importing from China. Hmm, how did that turn out? Here is the Chinese-made flag currently hanging in my room which came included in the newspaper before Yom Ha'atzmaut, thanks to the...

03 Jun ‘Scalpel…Forceps…Ehhhhhhhhhh…….’

Posted at 14:30h in Israelis Make Me Laugh, Miscellaneous, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Hello, my loyal readers-enjoying the lovely weather? I just got off a phone call with a friend Rachel who described the day as lovely. Are women halachically required to describe everything as "lovely" once they hit their upper 20s? I recently noticed a few of...