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Peace talks or target practice?
September 2, 2010[Story ID: 12633] A morbid comment by a friend after the last two consecutive days of drive-by shootings of Israelis by Palestinians, which have left four Israelis dead – ‘you can always tell when peace talks are starting because Israelis start dying.’ It’s horrible, but unfortunately true. I think everyone is starting to remember how [...]
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Gazoz
September 2, 2010[Story ID: 12588] Following a summer partially spent in the States, including a month-long stint in Georgia, the land of free drink refills — we’re talking iced tea, lemonade, soda, and not just the endless cup of coffee — imagine my surprise to see on a local Jerusalem menu the word “refills” next to a [...]
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Eilat not just a third-rate Las Vegas
September 1, 2010[Story ID: 12554] Eilat – can there be anyplace more kitschy? A little tacky Las Vegas sans the gambling right within our friendly country confines. But after spending a couple end of summer 100 degree days there, for maybe the 10th time, I can loudly proclaim that Eilat is a whole lot more than one [...]
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Buffalo Birthdays
September 1, 2010[Story ID: 12555] Buffalo Steak House is the kind of restaurant you go to for a special occasion or when relatives have flown into town (and are treating). With a menu almost entirely given over, as its name implies, to various cuts of beef (with the occasional chicken dish thrown in for those trying to [...]
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Socialized sandwiches
August 31, 2010[Story ID: 12478] I have a lot that I could say and write about socialized medicine, but I’ll just tell this one story. I was waiting to see my doctor the other morning, a very popular doctor, I should add, given that we all waited about two hours each to see her. That’s because like [...]
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Nostalgia Sunday Tel Aviv Zoo
August 29, 2010[Story ID: 12300] Here’s a tidbit of useless information: do you know why Tel Aviv’s Gan Ha-Ir mall is called that? Because there used to be a zoo — Gan Hayot Tel Aviv — on the site. Gan means “park”, hayot means “animals”, ir means “city”. So, “animal park” and “city park”. Hence the name. [...]
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Gilad Schalit turns 24
August 28, 2010[Story ID: 12301] Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday night in Jerusalem to mark the 24th birthday of Gilad Schalit, the kidnapped IDF soldier who has been held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since 2006. According to The Jerusalem Post, at the rally, Gilad’s mother Aviva Schalit read out a letter addressed to [...]
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Bizarre buds
August 28, 2010[Story ID: 12302] Like any good Israeli, I tend to do a run of errands on Friday mornings, hitting the supermarket for last minute weekend purchases, the bakery for challot, kadeh — incredibly tasty semicircles of dough filled with feta cheese — babka and any other necessary treats, the weekend newspapers and, depending on the [...]
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What to do on the last week of summer vacation
August 27, 2010[Story ID: 12303] As the school year is quickly approaching, I thought I’
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Foto Friday Klone alone
August 27, 2010[Story ID: 12304] Tel Aviv. It’s Klone’s city and we’re all just living in it. If graffiti artists are, in fact, masters of all they survey — and tag — then Tel Aviv is ruled by graffito Klone, whose handiwork can be seen almost anywhere you look – or places you usually don’t look: highway [...]
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End-of-season sales
August 26, 2010[Story ID: 12228] It’s sale time in the Tel Aviv ‘designer’ clothing world. In these parts, you find out about sales from emails and text messages, often sent personally by the designer, but you can pretty much head into any boutique of your choice and find lots ‘o pickings, which makes it all the more [...]
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Parking lot blues
August 26, 2010[Story ID: 12229] Like most parts of the developed world, parking lots are getting quite sophisticated in Israel. But sometimes, the more forward you get, the farther back you go. Yesterday, I had an appointment at the labrynth-like Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem. When you first enter the comples, you take a parking ticket from [...]
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Aviv Geffen practices his Irish
August 25, 2010[Story ID: 12170] They may not be coming to Israel, but U2 will still have an Israeli tinge to their show next week in Athen, Greece. Aviv Geffen, the one-time bad boy of Israeli rock, and now just another talented mainstream singer/songwriter, will be one of the opening acts – along with Snow Patrol – [...]
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How to hike in the summer
August 24, 2010[Story ID: 12107] Summer vacation is almost over but the heat remains. Whether it’
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A protest is born
August 23, 2010[Story ID: 12048] When does a pop culture song contest become turn into a religious altercation? When it takes place in Israel apparently. It’s going to happen when the final telecast of the popular singing competition A Star is Born (based on the American Idol format) takes place on September 4th on a Saturday night [...]
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Twelfth Night
August 22, 2010[Story ID: 11991] Get thee to the current outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Gan Hapa’amon, which will be playing one more night, Monday, August 22, produced by Theater in the Rough. I may have mentioned before that Jerusalem is truly a small village. It is, which was brought home to me once again [...]
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Nostalgia Sunday Yashar Yashar
August 22, 2010[Story ID: 11992] We are traveling this week, in the company of a GPS navigator named Koby. That is to say, our Global Positioning System has a selection of audio interfaces, each language interface has a name and gender identity (you can select a male or female voice), and the male Hebrew-language interface is called [...]
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Ravishing Rosh Pina
August 22, 2010[Story ID: 11993] With Turkey off the natural list of prime destinations for Israelis this summer, more and more vacationers have been looking closer to home for some r&r. The ‘tzimmer’ – or bed and breakfast industry – has flourished here in recent years, especially in the Galilee. You can’t go ten feet without another [...]
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Thumping the watermelon
August 22, 2010[Story ID: 11994] It’s not a great summer for fruit in Israel; prices are high as a result of the extreme heat we’re experiencing this summer, and the Farmers’ Association reported that the main fruits affected by the heat wave are peaches, plums, grapes, nectarines, and watermelons. A shortage of these fruits is likely, they [...]
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The Jody Blum Culinary Institute
August 20, 2010[Story ID: 11895] Growing up, my mother refused to let my brother and me into the kitchen. While this created a carefree cooking-neutral childhood, it hasn’