May

12

Where should I live?

May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

There is a facebook group which is discussing places to live in Israel for young (poor) anglos. I created this poll to help. Let’s see if it works:
Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll provide a topic.
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Jul

27

Christians United for Israel Tour

July 27, 2007 | 1 Comment

Boing Boing brought to my attention this post which discusses CUFI marching for Israel. The author says,
I have covered the Christian right intensely for over four years. During this time, I attended dozens of Christian right conferences, regularly monitored movement publications and radio shows, and interviewed scores of its key leaders. I have never witnessed [...]

Jul

7

IAO - Day 5 - Semantics and Prayer

July 7, 2007 | 1 Comment

Shavua tov anyone or everyone (I try to be optimistic - can you tell?). Today’s IAO is a tough one. If it seems like I’m making little sense, please forgive me. The reason that it is so difficult to write about is because today’s IAO is about:
Prayer

For me, prayer is hard to talk about. On [...]

Jul

6

IAO (Israel Appreciation Observation) - Day 4

July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

So I’m going to start abbreviating the titles of these posts because I’m getting tired of typing Israel Appreciation Observation over and over again. Since today is Friday, Erev Shabbat, I think that the choice for today’s post should be obvious. Our IAO for today is:
Shabbat in Israel

I don’t even really know if this one [...]

Jul

5

Israel Appreciation Observation - Day 3

July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

If yesterday’s post was fairly specific, then today’s post is going to be very general indeed. Today’s Israel Appreciation Observation is about something that native Israelis just can’t understand nor ever really appreciate. Today’s observation is about:
Aliyah - aka Coming Home
I was 23 when I made aliyah and moved from the US to Israel. Growing [...]

Jul

4

Israel Appreciation Observation - Day 2

July 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

Since yesterday’s post was such an outstandingly interesting observation, today we’ll try to shoot for something a bit more mundane. For 20 years, before I moved to Israel, I lived in Elizabeth, NJ in the US. Now, for the most part, I had a fairly delightful time in the city of brotherly mugging. But there [...]

Jul

3

Israel Appreciation Observation - Day 1

July 3, 2007 | 3 Comments

I’ve been feeling down about living in Israel. With the wars, corruption, chaos, calamaties, death, destruction, destitution, and general disorder, it has been getting very difficult to find ways of ignoring the overall feeling of malaise. So, in the spirit of doing something positive to immunize myself against my feelings of depression, I have decided [...]

Jun

10

UK Academics: F*** YOU!!!

June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip: Scientific American
Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have demonstrated that neurons cultured outside the brain can be imprinted with multiple rudimentary memories that persist for days without interfering with or wiping out others.
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Jun

7

Of Spiders, Mice, and Chumus

June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Ordinarily, a story such as this one which appeared in my Google reader this morning, would not attract much attention. Ok, Disney has acquired rights to Spiderman and some other Stan Lee/Marvel properties. Pretty standard business/entertainment news. Not much to raise an eyebrow, right? Wrong. As I scanned the article, I noticed a name jumped [...]

Jun

3

Bibi does his thang…

June 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Upon reflection, I don’t think that Netanyahu is the one to run our government (I can’t think of anyone else, but so what?). I think that he should be Foreign Minister, no matter who is Prime Minister. On the other hand, no matter how many people hear these types of messages, people hear what they [...]

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