י׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Saturday 12 November 2005)

Setting the Doctors Straight

י׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Saturday 12 November 2005)

I can never decide whether to love the New York Times or hate it. One week the Magazine is exceptionally strong; the next week Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd stink up the Op/Ed page. One week they get all the facts wrong about Israel; the next week they’re proving themselves culturally relevant with an important [...]

American Football and America

ז׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Wednesday 9 November 2005)

For about the first half of my life, I was a a baseball fan (New York Yankees since the mid 1980s). For the second half, I’ve been a football fan (Washington Redskins since the 1991 season). Usually, when someone learns about my taste for football, I’m confronted with a confused gaze and pressed to explain [...]

My Own Browser Struggles

ז׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Wednesday 9 November 2005)

Skimming through this list of Macintosh web browsers for fun, I was shocked by two points. First, I guess when I clicked on the link to go read the page, I wasn’t really thinking, but 83 different web browsers is a hell of a lot of software, a hell of a lot of options for [...]

It's all kumkum to me

ו׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Tuesday 8 November 2005)

Seth Stevenson in Slate reviews tea kettles, arguing pasionately and even a touch vehemently for electric kettles over traditional kettles. In Israel everyone has an electric kettle, and I was so confused when I moved here about why I’d never seen one before that I wasn’t even certain its purpose was to boil water. A [...]

Israel Customer Service Watch: Eye World

ה׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Monday 7 November 2005)

A while back I got a new contact lens prescription and new lenses, and in wearing them a few times a week over about two months, I never quite felt comfortable with them. In particular, the prescription for my right eye increased in strength by an entire point and, though everything seemed in focus when [...]

Israel Customer Service Watch: Bank Leumi Redux

ה׳ במרחשון ה׳תשס״ו (Monday 7 November 2005)

Two strikes against Bank Leumi. Last week I went to the branch nearest my home to deposit my paycheck, and the bank was closed, with a sign on the door indicating some sort of an unannounced, one-day strike. That’s an outrage! How can they just strike like that with no warning?!? I went to another [...]