In light of yesterday's travel news, here's my latest on the Times of Israel. I'm really enjoying the transition from "oleh chadash observations" to more current events and stuff. Are you? Is anyone even still here anymore? Did you hear the one about the guy who...
Shalom from a suburban Starbucks somewhere in North America. As I wrote on FB and Twitter a bit ago, if aliens ever do invade Planet Earth, they should disguise their spaceship as a Starbucks. The United States will enter the mothership willingly. Is there any...
Good morning, everyone-are you enjoying your Pesach? Can you believe here in Israel we're more than five days into this thing? Two more and it's chametz time. (Kind of like Hammer Time but with more bread and less booty-shaking.) I spent three nights last week around...
So last week, I brought up kugels and bagels and how maybe we Israelis should call our snotty people bissli and bamba. That led me to do a little online research about everybody's favorite Israeli snack food. Talk about learning something. Seriously,...
Well, my loyal readers, I come to you with a sad admission. I, Benji Lovitt, am a freier. I'm far from the first immigrant to discuss this concept but I may be one of the few to use the word to describe myself. For those...