shawarma Archives | Benji Lovitt

16 Oct My Big Fat Greek Yom Kippur, Part II

Posted at 03:53h in Benji's Getting Serious, I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, Jew Stuff, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent 0 Comments

If you missed Part 1 of my Greek adventures, check it out here. An abbreviated version is cross-posted on the Times of Israel here (so much for getting a "Species II" reference in there.) And now, without further ado, here’s a list of unrelated thoughts at...

30 Dec ‘Check Out My Shawarma’ and Other Things That Sound Sexual But Aren’t

Posted at 04:27h in Current Events, Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

I love shawarma. Love it! It's not just a rumor that I won the shawarma-eating championship in 1982. In what historians have called either "The War to Settle the Score" or "The Pita that I Gotta Eat-a", I failed to repeat in...

13 May How About Using My Shekel To Buy a New Sign?

Posted at 13:17h in Now I'm Just Being Silly 0 Comments

Ever run to the bathroom and have a to make a split-decision about which gender's room to run into? Well, not because you don't know your own gender (this is already on the verge of turning into a bizarre post) but because you can't...

12 Mar You Couldn’t Make This S*** Up

Posted at 10:20h in Israelis Make Me Laugh, Miscellaneous 0 Comments

From a recent conversation between Some Dumb Oleh and his friend...

02 Sep I Don’t Even Know What to Say (But It’s Not B’tayavon)

Posted at 00:00h in Israelis Make Me Laugh 0 Comments

CAN WE GET SOME MARKETING EXECS IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM IMMEDIATELY?!? I just lost my appetite in approximately 2.7 seconds. What exactly is the " ועוד " (and more) at the bottom? I don't think I want to find out. Fortunately thousands of tourists don't...

17 Aug Great 300s in History

Posted at 00:00h in Miscellaneous 0 Comments

Hey, did you happen to catch our recent Tu B'av video? If not, you can now see it here on the Haaretz website. Good times. And now...

15 Apr The Shawarma-nator

Posted at 05:01h in I Love This Place, Israelis Make Me Laugh, That Thing That Pays the Bills 0 Comments

And now…a look at life in Israel.(2 minutes before this exchange, a co-worker I barely know invited me to his Seder. Good Lord, Israelis are the most hospitable people in the universe.) Benji: Why are Israelis so nice? You can’t go to miluim (army reserves), we...

17 Dec Eat Your Heart Out, Ray’s Pizza

Posted at 19:24h in Israelis Make Me Laugh, Miscellaneous, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

In the spirit of Ray's, Famous Ray's, Original Ray's, and the like...

17 Oct More Great Duos in History

Posted at 02:23h in Israelis Make Me Laugh, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

Has it really been a year since we covered some of the great duos in history? Let's take a look at a few more. 1) Steven Tyler and Joe Perry: Nicknamed the "Toxic Twins", these rock n’ roll powerhouses had enough hits to span TWO careers...

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