Once in a While I Just Have to Vent

20 Jan An Israeli’s Response to the Funniest Book in the History of the World

Posted at 05:42h in Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front, Now I'm Just Being Silly, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Here's one that's been sitting in my proverbial hopper for months, just waiting to be written (ech omrim "proverbial hopper"?) It's a long one...

13 Jan THIS IS WAR, YOU BASTARDS

Posted at 03:45h in 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

Only one week ago, I wrote about the tendency for people to mispronounce my name here. Apparently "the gods" did not look favorably on this post and have decided to wage all-out war on me. I got my first tlush maskoret (salary statement) last week from...

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...

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...

19 Dec This is Where My Taxes are Going?

Posted at 18:35h in Current Events, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

As if this wasn't silly enough...

17 Dec Eat Your Heart Out, Ray’s Pizza

Posted at 19:24h in Israelis Make Me Laugh, Miscellaneous, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

In the spirit of Ray's, Famous Ray's, Original Ray's, and the like...

13 Dec Seriously, Ynet?

Posted at 02:05h in Current Events, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

I'm one more ridiculous headline this week from making a Ynet category in this blog. This is what greeted me when I clicked onto their site this morning. Most Israelis are not racist. They spent money on a poll to tell us this? ...

11 Dec So Much for this Journalist Winning the Pulitzer Any Time Soon…

Posted at 08:46h in Benji's Getting Serious, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Ok, I hate to draw attention away from anything but the disgusting, sad topic of this article, but the author makes it so hard not to.Really? THAT'S the word of choice? Would "go number one" have put this article over the maximum word...

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 Oh, those crazy talkbackers

Posted at 09:11h in Current Events, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

I have a love/hate relationship with online news. I like the immediacy of it but I hate…ok, I’ll say it. I hate the commenters at the bottom. At least when it comes to the Middle East. Could these individuals be the most angry, hateful people...