war zone Archives | Benji Lovitt

25 Nov “War! What Is It Good For? Writin’ On Your Facebook….”

Posted at 01:51h in Benji's Getting Serious, Comedy, Current Events, Life on the Home Front, The War Zone, This Aliyah Moment is Brought to You by the Letter Aleph 0 Comments

With apologies to Edwin Star...

15 Nov Yawn…It Must Be Time for a War

Posted at 12:49h in Benji's Getting Serious, Life on the Home Front, The War Zone, Video 0 Comments

Hey, I just landed in Israel 4 hours ago and boy, are my long-range missiles tired. Remember my blog? What War Zone??? Good thing I kept the URL. We're back in business, reminding you, my loyal readers, that despite the occasional uptick in violence (and...

10 Oct My Big Fat Greek Yom Kippur, Part I

Posted at 07:02h in Jew Stuff, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, The War Zone 0 Comments

Bill Simmons-style, I'm breaking this one up into two parts. Link to Part II at the bottom. Cross-posted on the Times of Israel. Shana tova, everyone. Did you have a memorable season of chagim? I did, having spent ten days on vacation in Greece. Aside from...

13 Mar The REAL Truth in Gaza: A Photo Journal

Posted at 11:51h in Current Events, Life on the Home Front, Now I'm Just Being Silly, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, The War Zone 0 Comments

This piece also ran in the Times of Israel here. Greetings from America. Thanks to Jspace, I've had a fun trip, bringing laughs to people in Southern Illinois, South Bend, and tomorrow, Madison. (Have you created a profile yet? Go do it now...

23 Aug Is Ted Turner Dead? He’s Definitely Rolling in Something

Posted at 11:07h in Miscellaneous, Now I'm Just Being Silly, Once in a While I Just Have to Vent, The War Zone, Uncategorized 0 Comments

If we're talking stereotypes: Israelis may be rude...

17 Jul Welcome Back, Blog; See Ya, Facebook

Posted at 06:52h in I Love Hebrew, I Love This Place, Life on the Home Front 0 Comments

Once upon a time, there was some dumb oleh named Benji. He started a blog. A lot of people read it. It was possibly the thing he was most proud of in his life. Good times were had by all. Then he started posting on...

23 Mar Jerusalem Bombing: “So What are People Saying Over There?”

Posted at 16:23h in Benji's Getting Serious, Current Events, The War Zone 0 Comments

"So what are people saying over there?" That's the question my father often asks me on our way home from the airport in Texas. "So what do people think about what's going on...

28 Sep 36 in the War Zone!

Posted at 15:54h in Current Events, Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

Hello, my loyal readers! Did you have a good day yesterday? I did. As I wrote on Facebook, yesterday was all about double-chai (and I don't mean a drink). I know, I know, you didn't have me pegged as the same...

28 Dec My Birthright Photo Essay: Ready to See Some Skin?

Posted at 06:43h in I Love This Place, Jew Stuff 0 Comments

So I'm back. Tired. After adding this experience piece to my pie of year-programs, summer programs, and camp summers, I have some new perspectives and burning questions about Jewish community, resources, difficult funding decisions, follow-up and long-term programming, and more, many of which have no...

22 Oct This is What We’re Dealing With in the War Zone

Posted at 11:30h in Now I'm Just Being Silly, The War Zone 0 Comments

We already know that our enemies will do anything to influence world opinion, having doctored photos during the Second Lebanon War. They're at it again, people. Last night, in honor of the President's Conference, Some Dumb Oleh, aka Benji Massachusetts, attended a networking event sponsored by...

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