Israel
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 ...
Get Your Peanuts Out of My Chickpeas!
I love it when hummus is in the news. Partially this is because I love hummus. I had hummus for ...
Alan Dershowitz–Republican?
Say it ain’t so Alan! One of my favorite liberals (at least I always considered him a liberal), Alan Dershowitz, ...
Immigrant & Migrant Worker Issues in Israel
Longtime residents of some south Tel Aviv neighborhoods angrily protest the influx of foreign workers and asylum seekers. (Jerusalem Post)A ...
Why I Know My Binyanim
Last night I had a dream that I was back in high school, and was working on some homework form ...