As I detailed a few months ago, one of the national slogans here is "Yiyeh B'seder (it will be ok)". There's no situation yiyeh b'seder can't handle. It's the Clorox bleach of phrases. I recently witnessed the mother of all yiyeh b'seders when talking with my...
Every superhero has his arch nemesis. Superman and Bizarro. Batman and the Joker (or was it the Penguin?) Mine is my roommate on cleaning day. Now I must admit up front...
A few weeks ago, my friend Rani invited me out for coffee to meet his neighbor. Apparently, he discovered that a non-Jewish journalist named Kathrin from Germany is living next door to him while on assignment. “She has a blog...
Two comments regarding this recent post: 1) Kibbutz Galuyot is not a kibbutz. It’s a phrase which means “ingathering of the exiles”. 2) About my roommate yelling “die!”: I remember hearing stories years ago about Israeli mothers in the States yelling that at...
Two days after move-in and a long road lies ahead. Dirty floors, not much furniture, and no time to address either. Work is way too busy (a topic I won’t address here), and I was exhausted and in a rotten mood when I...