Jul

17

IAO 7 - On Excuses and Exhaustion

July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I have been very lax in posting updates to my Israel Appreciation Observation series due to the fact that I have just started working on a new project and it is taking a lot, if not all, of my free time. However, since right now I am waiting for feedback on some things and I [...]

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 [...]

Apr

30

Blessed Be He Who Distinguishes Between the Sacred and the Profane…

April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

While out browsing for a birthday card for my wife, I saw something on the shelf of a local gift store which simultaneously made me laugh and shake my head in disbelief. What makes the scene even funnier, at least to me, is that this morning I was banned from our local Modiin email list [...]

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