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Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Pelephone?
Orange has a nifty iPhone app that shows you exactly where they're ripping you off Last week I wrote about my new iPhone 4S on the Israelity blog. I took a rather crafty approach in obtaining the...
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A Date in Jerusalem
Every year on our wedding anniversary, my wife Jody and I try to get away to a bed and breakfast/spa, somewhere in Israel for a night or two. This year, however, the prices were even higher than usual...
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Fuze Tea Blitzes Israel
You would have to have been living in a cave, under a rock or in general paying no attention whatsoever to TV, radio, the Internet or billboards all over Israel during the past few weeks to have missed...
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“Houses from Within” Returns to Jerusalem With More Trains
The annual “Houses from Within” weekend is one of my favorite Jerusalem adventures. The event opens tens of normally private homes and institutions to the public. Dwellings owned by artists like...
View ArticleIsraeli Spotting at the Super Bowl
Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday and, as always, the commercials were often as unforgettable as some of the bolder plays on the field. For Israelis, the spot to watch was GoDaddy’s promotion of its web...
View Article“Nice Jewish boy” Launches Playboy in Israel
When I was growing up, my father always kept a stack of Playboy magazines in the living room, next to the stereo. They were there for anyone to read, and despite the public potential for teenage...
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Supersol Gets Spooky Online
I hate grocery shopping in Israel. I might hate it in the Old Country too, but I don’t remember it so well. But here, I have no problem recalling my recoil. The aisles are too narrow, the lines are...
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Top zingers from this year’s Comedy for Koby
Comedy for Koby rolled into Jerusalem this week and my wife and I were there, along with our three kids, who we treated to their first live comedy show as a Hanukah gift. (Think of it as guffaws...
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Eddie and the White Smoke
We love our 1995 Toyota Corolla. It’s in fantastic shape and is our only car for driving out of Jerusalem. (Our other car is a Better Place electric vehicle which is now essentially a very expensive...
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The Case for Boredom
When was the last time you were bored? Think about it…what do you do if you have nothing of great importance to do – say, you’re standing in a line at the pharmacy and there are three people ahead of...
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Are we on the brink of a smartphone-induced mental-health crisis?
Israeli rocker Shalom Hanoch was at his best. Performing in an intimate concert at the state-of-the-art theater at the Elma Luxury Arts Complex in Zichron Yaakov, Hanoch crooned for over two hours,...
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The price of memory
“We found Mom. She’s safe.” That was the text message I received from my brother in California. It came out of the blue. We were at an open air concert in Rishon Lezion and I hadn’t read the news. So I...
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Fuze Tea Blitzes Israel
You would have to have been living in a cave, under a rock or in general paying no attention whatsoever to TV, radio, the Internet or billboards all over Israel during the past few weeks to have missed...
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“Houses from Within” Returns to Jerusalem With More Trains
The annual “Houses from Within” weekend is one of my favorite Jerusalem adventures. The event opens tens of normally private homes and institutions to the public. Dwellings owned by artists like...
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Israeli Spotting at the Super Bowl
Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday and, as always, the commercials were often as unforgettable as some of the bolder plays on the field. For Israelis, the spot to watch was GoDaddy’s promotion of its web...
View Article“Nice Jewish boy” Launches Playboy in Israel
When I was growing up, my father always kept a stack of Playboy magazines in the living room, next to the stereo. They were there for anyone to read, and despite the public potential for teenage...
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Supersol Gets Spooky Online
I hate grocery shopping in Israel. I might hate it in the Old Country too, but I don’t remember it so well. But here, I have no problem recalling my recoil. The aisles are too narrow, the lines are...
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Top zingers from this year’s Comedy for Koby
Comedy for Koby rolled into Jerusalem this week and my wife and I were there, along with our three kids, who we treated to their first live comedy show as a Hanukah gift. (Think of it as guffaws...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eddie and the White Smoke
We love our 1995 Toyota Corolla. It’s in fantastic shape and is our only car for driving out of Jerusalem. (Our other car is a Better Place electric vehicle which is now essentially a very expensive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Case for Boredom
When was the last time you were bored? Think about it…what do you do if you have nothing of great importance to do – say, you’re standing in a line at the pharmacy and there are three people ahead of...
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