shabbat Archives | Benji Lovitt

01 Apr It’s April Fool’s Day….Why Not Move to Tel Aviv?

Posted at 11:19h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Culture, I Love Hebrew, I Love This Place, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Tomorrow, I move to Tel Aviv. I was pretty sure this day was coming from the time I moved here; I just didn’t know it would take 3.5 years to return. My aliyah has taken me to Tel Aviv, then Jerusalem, and now back where I...

08 Jan Star Wars, Episode VII: The Fight at Arnona

Posted at 03:28h in Culture, Life on the Home Front, Mr. Miyagi 0 Comments

Boker tov-did you have a nice Shabbat? Funny how after five-plus years here, I've realized that I call the weekend "Shabbat" irrespective of religious connotations. I had a typical lazy weekend in Jerusalem, relaxing and watching illegally downloaded movies, or as I like to call...

29 Jan My Apartment Burned. And How Was Your Weekend?

Posted at 15:01h in Benji's Getting Serious, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Life on the Home Front, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Shalom, my loyal readers, and how are you doing? I'm pretty good, excited to be writing posts on my new site. Any of you still out there? I met one reader Malka last Sunday night when we were both hired to play extras on some...

21 Nov Live Blogging Getting Hit by a Car

Posted at 09:29h in Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

Because nothing gets you people more excited than the words "live blogging"...

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...

08 Sep It’s the Sabbath but It’s Not Saturday. I Must Be in America…

Posted at 00:00h in Current Events, Life on the Home Front, Miscellaneous 0 Comments

Clicked here yet? Just once per computer, thanks...

07 Jan ”Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus…However He Eats Traif on Shabbas”

Posted at 16:37h in Benji's Getting Serious, Jew Stuff, Life on the Home Front 0 Comments

A few days ago, I received an email from my 12 year-old Lubavitch cousin Mushki who lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. To my memory, I hadn't met her before moving to New York City four years ago. I saw her a handful of times in my...

29 Oct ”This is the Sound that Israelis Make When Trying to Get a Thought Out…”

Posted at 17:08h in I Love Hebrew, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh 0 Comments

Games are fun, my loyal readers. Rare is the occasion in adult life that we get to play them but when we do, it's always a fun time. As childhood turned into college, Chutes and Ladders and Monopoly gave way to good fun...

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...

10 Oct It’s Time for Our Weekly Holiday Report!

Posted at 17:03h in Jew Stuff, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

Well, my loyal readers, I have to be honest with you: my creative juices haven’t been flowing the last few days. I haven’t gotten into a normal routine yet in terms of my schedule which sometimes keeps me from writing regularly although I...

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