Remember those old MasterCard commercials? Here's my version from Thursday night just before I was to deliver this talk...
What am I supposed to call this blog post? More on that later. Today marks ten years since I arrived in Israel. When all of us bloggers started to write less frequently a few years ago, a wise friend told me that I might consider how...
My latest from the Times of Israel...
Hello, my loyal readers. Next month will mark six-and-a-half years living in Israel and the same amount of time blogging. I’ve written about war, work, Jerusalem vs. Tel Aviv, and of course, everything an oleh chadash could laugh about from mopping the floor to ridiculous...
Israel is a dangerous place. Between the unrest in Egypt, the threat of war with Iran, and matkot balls flying around at the speed of light, we can never know what the future holds. I was reminded of this last week when I threw my back out...
Aaaaaand we’re back from America. Did you have a nice Yom Ha’atzmaut, my loyal readers? If you didn’t eat at least 45 cows, busha v’cherpa to you (roughly translated as “shame shame shame, everybody knows your name"). I write you (wrote, rather) from seat 28D on...
People, these are heavy days in the Jewish state. Worldwide condemnation...
"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...
"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...
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...