"This is why I have a blog, take II." I'm filming a video tomorrow for a Jewish organization and it's happening at the 90th minute as we say in Hebrew. For the Americans out there, it's just after the two-minute warning and the home team has...
On August 9th/10th, 2006, I did the craziest, boldest, scariest, and most exciting thing I have ever done: move to Israel. Where have the last five years gone? I have been anticipating this day for some time now and I knew I'd have to mark it...
It's 8:26 AM: do you know where your chametz is? Mine is quietly minding its own business in the cupboard, doing whatever chametz does when left unattended. I'm slowly coming to terms with Passover starting in only 10 hours, another holiday where I failed to...
It's Day 7 post-fire and things keep chugging along. And when I say "chugging along", I mean wearing the same clothes every other day. Nobody has said anything about me stinking of smoke in about 3 days...
Shalom from an undisclosed location, boys and girls. In case you didn't hear, my apartment became unlivable this past weekend. I'm still a wandering Jew, having spent this morning packing my possessions into garbage bags in anticipatzia of having to clear the way for shiputzim. We all know that...
I’m back! And after 5 weeks, believe me, I was ready. To the people I sat next to on Alitalia flight 810 who may or may not have ingested my body odor after two days in transit, I apologize. Speaking of...
Inspired by my idol Bill Simmons, I'm being nice to my loyal readers and splitting this into 2 parts. Can you believe we're already closer to Sukkot than we are Yom Kippur? How did that happen? And so much for my state of hunger. After just...
While I may be a little more out of it than I used to be (thank you, living abroad and not listening to the radio regularly since selling my car in 2003...
Here I sit, in seat 45A...
JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good news, people-I've found a way to jumpstart my blogginess. I just stood in line at the Mr. Zol (מר זול) in downtown Jerusalem and now want to commit mass murder. Is this why Hamas is so angry? This is...