People, Israel turned sixty earlier this month; it's gonna be a year-long party. And the good times just keep on coming. (Here's the wrap-up which I posted Friday with some great video coverage.) My poor roommate is having surgery on Tuesday (that's not the...
Some more work-related thoughts after a long day, wondering when I'm going to write about Yom Ha'atzmaut...
People are seriously obsessed with English in this country. Need I link to the t-shirts again? In the middle of speaking in Hebrew, someone will just - without warning - say one phrase or part of a sentence in English. I cannot...
We've aaaaaaaaall seen it. The menus with the typos. The weird-ass t-shirts. For the love of G-d, I think there's a typo in my company's freaking NAME! (As explained in the link, I'm not going to write it out here but shouldn't there be an...
We interrupt this program for me to break character for a minute. When I started this blog, it was the classic traveler’s journal for family and friends about my life, expectations, experiences, etc. It didn’t take long for me to find my voice and start...
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...
Hello, my loyal readers. Sorry for the recent lack of posts. Life as an oleh chadash is busy as always and I’ve had a packed few weeks with stand-up shows and other things. A couple weeks back, I was asked to perform for at a...
So I started a new job yesterday, my loyal readers. I'm a content writer for an online marketing firm and that's all I'm gonna say for now. Some of you in the place called chul might be asking yourself, "Self? How does an oleh chadash struggling...
So I like to make fun of my Israeli friends. It's fun. The way they put the "s" in the wrong place, like "its depend" or "what its mean"...
Well, my loyal readers, I’m back, spending my Shabbat catching up. Quick: what are the official languages of Israel? Give up? Hebrew and Arabic. So what does it really mean to be an official language? Not that I can speak from experience (as I’ve never been an...