Israel
Wise Fridays: Heaven and Land
“Each people has as much heaven over its head as it has land under its feet. ” —Hayim Nahman Bialik ...
Rugelach and Blessings To Go
My friend dropped me off across the street and pointed out the shelter where the minibus stopped. “The 16 sherut ...
Making Aliyah Is Not A Job
We’re about three minutes away from weekend, but I just want to take this opportunity to vent a little bit. ...
Like Holy Rollers, But True
I didn’t get a chance to see Holy Rollers, the movie about Hasidic kids who get involved smuggling drugs into ...
Israeli Movie Stars, the Western Wall, and Other Awesome Mistakes
So. I’m in Israel. We’d just had our two free hours in Jerusalem, virtually the only free time on this whole ...
Israeli Eurovision Retrospective
There’s a long and hilarious article in this week’s New Yorker about the Eurovision contest, and it includes a short ...
Summer Reading Recommendation: These Mountains
It’s hot outside. Too hot to focus on anything. I usually love to read a big fat novel, but in ...
Israel’s Other White Meat
For any kosher law abiding Jew, visiting Israel is an opportunity to eat some of the things that are normally ...
How Do You Say Goal in Hebrew?
If you’re like half the population of the world, you’re pretty interested in that whole World Cup situation that’s going ...
Wise Fridays: Families of Jerusalem
“Beautiful are the families of Jerusalem: A mother from a Russian curse and a father from a Spanish curse, A ...
Floatilla Consensus
Hey, it turns out there’s one thing we can all agree on when it comes to the Floatilla disaster: the ...