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14 Jan

Posted at 05:01h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Culture, I Love Hebrew, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph, Video

Hello, my loyal readers.  Next month will mark six-and-a-half years living in Israel and the same amount of time blogging.  I’ve written about war, work, Jerusalem vs. Tel Aviv, and of course, everything an oleh chadash could laugh about from mopping the floor to ridiculous...

11 May

Posted at 07:43h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Culture, I Love This Place, Life on the Home Front, Mr. Miyagi, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph

In case you missed it, here's my latest blog post from the Times of Israel.  Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!   Once upon a time, 45 bajillion blog posts were written about olim, their complaints, and a partridge in a pear tree. In our immediate-reaction, “look, two...

10 Aug

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

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...

05 Sep

Posted at 01:10h in Miscellaneous

As my occasional contribution to the Jewish blogging community, I have volunteered again to host Haveil Havalim, the weekly "blog carnival" of the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere. (Ech omrim "blogosphere"?) Haveil Havalim was created by Soccer Dad and currently maintained by our friend Jack. I have...

06 Jun

Posted at 01:25h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Life on the Home Front, Miscellaneous, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph

Update: That's a question above, by the way, not a declaration. This is a post I've been meaning to write for a while. Hey, remember this blog? The one which made fun of Israel, cultural differences, America, Hebrew, "yiyeh b'seder", and, oh...