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19 Nov *Beelti Precedentzia (Unprecedented)….And There’s a 30% Chance That’s Actually How You Say It

Posted at 23:54h in Life on the Home Front, Miscellaneous, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Something I forgot to ask when I wrote this whole thing: Am I the first oleh in recorded history to make aliyah to Tel Aviv and then move to Jerusalem? I know someone who did Jerusalem-Tel Aviv-back to Jerusalem (not the guy from Hadag Nachash.)...

30 Oct BREAKING NEWS: New Beginnings (Now WHERE THE #*!?$ DO I DRINK MY HAFUCH?!?)

Posted at 01:00h in Benji's Getting Serious, Culture, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front, 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 0 Comments

Ok, here we go. Let's do it. Jumping right in. Shalosh, arba...

16 May Do They Sell ‘Belated Happy Birthday’ Cards in Hebrew?

Posted at 16:38h in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place, Jew Stuff, That Thing That Pays the Bills, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Well, it's the Friday night before the week my first group arrives from the States. Exciting times. I'm spending the weekend taking it easy and catching up on my life, doing all the things I either do in the next 24 hours or...

03 Dec No Need to Divide Jerusalem, There’s Enough to Go Around

Posted at 05:13h in Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

Before a recent trip to the nation's capital, I was surprised to learn from weather.com that Jerusalem was at the time 34 degrees but felt like 20. (I always wondered why they had to report both the actual temperature and the wind chill. "Today in...

08 Apr Get in Line, Sons of Bitches

Posted at 02:02h in Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Last night, I boarded a bus from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Well, to be accurate, I was forced on by a raging mob of impatient pushers and line-cutters. Why they had to push, I have no idea, since we were standing close to the front...

21 Oct Shabbat in Jerusalem

Posted at 02:50h in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place 0 Comments

At the current point of Jewish history, people talk about the Jewish world being elliptical with two foci, or main points, Israel and America. Israel too has two geographical foci which arguably hold greater significance than others, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Most American...

07 Oct Yom Kippur in Israel

Posted at 14:19h in Benji's Getting Serious, Jew Stuff, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

The holiday season. In America, we have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Christian, Jewish, or whatever, things slow down in the office and in general. The phone rings less at work, people are off, school’s out so there’s less traffic. Here,...

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