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09 Feb The Times of Israel: “The Idiot’s Guide to Bombing Iran”

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Hello, my loyal readers! Everyone ok out there? Quick life update: I ran my car into a tree. The good news is I'm fine. The bad news is it was on Tu B'shvat. The JNF is pissed. Ok, ok, I'm joking. (Sorry if I scared you, Mom.)...

10 Aug Five Years in Israel: What Does Aliyah Look Like?

Posted at 05:13h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Culture, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front, Now I'm Just Being Silly, 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, Video 0 Comments

On August 9th/10th, 2006, I did the craziest, boldest, scariest, and most exciting thing I have ever done: move to Israel. Where have the last five years gone? I have been anticipating this day for some time now and I knew I'd have to mark it...

07 Aug Just Call Me Doctor

Posted at 00:43h in 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

We've already discussed the Israeli postal service's amazing ability to deliver poorly addressed mail in this tiny country. And we've looked at some of the many ways my name is butchered ("Ben-Gay", anyone?) Apparently somebody is testing the mailman. With my five-year aliyah anniversary just days...

14 Jul Some Things You Really Shouldn’t Buy Secondhand

Posted at 05:32h in Miscellaneous, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Hello, my fellow Israelis! How's your bank balance doing? Up? Down? All around? If you've been following the news, you know that, well...

09 May WE’RE BAAAAAACK! 63 MORE Things I Love about Israel

Posted at 07:49h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Culture, Current Events, I Love Hebrew, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front, Miscellaneous, Now I'm Just Being Silly, That Thing That Pays the Bills, The War Zone, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph, Video 0 Comments

We're still a few hours away but since Jpost already went live with it, Chag Ha'atzmaut sameach! If you made it here from Jpost, welcome! If you enjoyed this list, then be sure to subscribe to my mailing list on the right for more hilarious...

05 May The Yoms are Coming: A Photo Essay

Posted at 03:16h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, I Love This Place, Jew Stuff, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Five days till "63 More Things about Israel" goes live! Four days if you get the paper. Stay tuned...

06 Apr I Haven’t Been to a Government Office in a While, Why the Hell Not?

Posted at 11:25h in Comedy, Culture, 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

Come out to the Comedy Basement this Saturday night where I'm performing with Baruch Spier, David Kilimnick, and another guy making fun of Israel. Details here. Also, check out the Stage One Theater Festival over Pesach in Jerusalem's Beit Avi Chai. Although I'll be missing them...

20 Mar The Maccabeats, Purim, and Mr. Ed’s Israeli Cousin

Posted at 07:54h in Comedy, I Love Hebrew, Now I'm Just Being Silly, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Are you ready for Purim? I don't want to overdo it but I haven't been this excited since David Ben-Gurion appeared on "Dancing with the Stars". Spring is definitely in the air, people are in good moods, and any reason to dress up like slutty...

29 Jan My Apartment Burned. And How Was Your Weekend?

Posted at 15:01h in Benji's Getting Serious, 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

Shalom, my loyal readers, and how are you doing? I'm pretty good, excited to be writing posts on my new site. Any of you still out there? I met one reader Malka last Sunday night when we were both hired to play extras on some...

18 Dec Now That’s Service with a Smile

Posted at 12:27h in Culture, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Here's another email exchange that you wouldn't typically find outside of Israel. Received from my accountant (British immigrant, been here 30+ years) when I was in the States: "Benji – Bituach Leumi sent a note that they are canceling your standing order arrangement with them. This...