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27 Apr Well, It Was Fun While It Lasted…Get Ready, I’m About to Get Serious Again

Any of my long-time readers notice the serious amount of posts over the last month? Let's just say that I've had a fair amount of time on my hands. April officially became my most prolific month of writing last week and with a few more...

24 Apr List This

Posted at 02:11h in Miscellaneous, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Last week, I went to an Israel21c happy hour hosting a group of techie bloggers from the Bay Area with What War Zone??? secret field correspondent "Melissa." The group was brought over by the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, presumably to see life in Israel,...

23 Apr Do People Lie on Their Resumes Here Too?

Posted at 10:23h in Miscellaneous, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Post 2 of 2 today...

15 Apr The Shawarma-nator

Posted at 05:01h in I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

And now…a look at life in Israel.(2 minutes before this exchange, a co-worker I barely know invited me to his Seder. Good Lord, Israelis are the most hospitable people in the universe.) Benji: Why are Israelis so nice? You can’t go to miluim (army reserves), we...

09 Apr New Column Out

Posted at 02:30h in Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

My monthly column in the Atlanta Jewish Times's monthly supplement is out. Although I only put pen to paper a few weeks ago, it's safe to say this column has been running around my head for the better part of 15 years. This month's theme is...

09 Apr Abu Lovitt is Now Terrified to Order in Restaurants

Posted at 02:28h in I Love This Place, Miscellaneous, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

They're calling out to Abu Lovitt again and this time it's from my office computer. I did eat chumus in Abu Gosh a few weeks back. Could this have anything to do with it? Or maybe it's my dirty Arabic vocabulary. On that note, good...

23 Mar How Can Someone Wet Her Pants But Still Conjugate in Passive Tense?

Posted at 06:15h in I Love Hebrew, Jew Stuff, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Good morning, my loyal readers-I hope to have my Purim update online in the next 24 hours. I’m having some logistical issues in the camera department which will be resolved soon. As always, it was a nice holiday experience. I hope you all had a...

20 Mar We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Broadcast to Make Fun of Americans

Posted at 03:29h in I Love Hebrew, Israelis Make Me Laugh, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Lioz Shem-Tov is an Israeli comedian who recently was invited to audition for the next season of “Last Comic Standing.”Apparently the show, in an effort to become more interesting, has decided to open their doors to a few international performers.Lioz flew to Miami and was...

17 Mar De What???

Posted at 05:15h in I Love Hebrew, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about my effort to buy Pant Steak from the store. That was just the most recent example of my attempt to read English words in Hebrew which all Americans know are the toughest ones to make out....

12 Mar Thank You for Not Smoking (Except for in the Stairwell, You Freaks of Nature)

Posted at 10:41h in I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Two days in a row, my loyal readers...