30 Dec What Happens When Santa Claus Comes to the Middle East
'Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house...
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07 Aug The Day the Jews Killed the Airline Search Sites
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...
31 Aug Live Blogging the Pre-Flight
I just wanted to use the words "live blogging." Here I am in the atrium looking all important on my laptop. (If holding a shawarma in one hand while looking at ESPN looks important.) No time for graphics...
12 Sep Shana Tovah from 30,000 Feet!
It’s great to be back in Israel where the feel of the chagim just doesn’t compare to that in the States (in the best of ways). Both at camp this summer and during my three years recruiting for Young Judaea’s Israel programs, I constantly talked...
15 Oct “Cafe, B’vakasha? Coffee, please?”
Let’s review some famous questions in history: 1) Why did the chicken cross the road? 2) Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? 3) Shalom, Benji...
10 Aug THE BIG DAY (and I’m not talking about football season)
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in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments
Here I sit, in seat 45A. Hardly an empty seat on the flight, and somehow there’s one next to me. I was really hoping to post an entry from JFK Airport before boarding but I just didn’t have the time. Someone asked...