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Category Archives: Israel
Hope for humanity
I refuse to admit that I’m overstating things when I say this makes me feel better about the human race, at least for four and a half minutes: Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. Spotted … Continue reading
A Day In Israel: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 – 13th of Tamuz, 5768
0830 We got up and started getting ready for our day. This included a light breakfast for us and Hadarya. 0900 My friend, roommate, and rabbi Scott, called to tell me that Channel 10 News was covering the prisoner exchange … Continue reading
Posted in Arab-Israeli Conflict, Blogging, Commentary, Family, Israel, Parenting, history, life cycle, television, travel
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Movie review: You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
Hilarious. Chock full of Adam Sandler’s typical bathroom jokes and 80s-centric humor, this movie (Flash heavy site) won’t disappoint his enormous day-to-day fan base. But the movie is also packed with tons of audience-specific gags that are only truly funny … Continue reading
Earth Israeli Girls are Easy?
I don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed “courtesy” of Reuters Oddly Enough, emphasis added: Wolf whistle works, woman strips WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Road workers in a small New Zealand town got their wish granted when a woman stripped … Continue reading
Posted in Good News, Israel, News, entertainment, travel
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Brain dump, Tuesday night
I have to blog a thousand things, but I’ll just keep this to the top that I’m able to think of, in no particular order, before my fingers get tired: The evil bastards who control the food packaging disaster that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Family, Israel, Jewish holidays, Parenting, Podcasting, Politics, books, entertainment, funny, humor, life cycle, movies, music, religion, sci-fi, technology, television
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The Onion takes on the latest US-Israel espionage story
I’ve only caught snippets of the story, since I don’t always hear the entire news broadcasts at the top of the hour from Israel while listening to Reshet Gimmel, but I got the gist of it from this brief review, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, News, entertainment, satire
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Shabbat shalom and happy bageling!
Despite the name of the practice, bageling is a very appropriate Pesach activity. I was introduced to this charmingly named entertainment by a friend of my dad’s, who forwarded me the column below today. Happily, unlike in the case of … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Israel, Jewish holidays, San Diego Jewish Community, Shabbat, entertainment, fun, travel
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No words
Posted in Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israel, News, Uncategorized, education, life cycle, religion
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Blasphemy has never been so funny.
The thing about Israelis is, they we are equal opportunity offenders. Christians? No problem: If Mary had been a modern Israeli woman (5 MB WMV download) Chasidic and other ultra-orthodox Jews? We got you covered: I’m sure there’s plenty of … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Israel, entertainment, funny, humor, religion, satire, television, video
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Looking forward, looking back
I delivered the d’var Torah this past Shabbat at Ohr Shalom. I had volunteered to do this months ago, but had completely forgotten about it, so when the rabbi emailed me on Thursday night to remind me, I emailed back … Continue reading →