י״ז בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Tuesday 17 January 2006)

Calling all frustrated academics

י״ז בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Tuesday 17 January 2006)

Fellow Jerusalem blogger Joanna has posted a very enjoyable ethnographic study about the Bat Ayin Yeshiva. I recommend it confidently for those of us who enjoy reading this sort of literature, and for anyone who has even a passing interest in Joanna’s thesis topic, “American Neo-Hasidut in Israel” / hippy Judaism. Souls of Chaos: Spiritual [...]

Sofi's Aliyah

ט׳ בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Monday 9 January 2006)

Today I had a very special privilege: welcoming Israel’s newest immigrant at the airport. I’d written previously about Sofi’s upcoming Aliyah, with the news that she’d arrive in early January and live in Merkaz HaMagshimim. Sure enough, today being her arrival date, I left work early, tremped to the bus station, took the 947 to [...]

Central Bus Station

ט׳ בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Monday 9 January 2006)

I found myself in the Jerusalem Central Bus Station today (the reason for which I will soon share) and needed to change out of my work clothes, covered in mud and dust, into normal street clothes. So I headed for the third floor bathroom, which is hidden way around a corner, behind the buses to [...]

Do the Crawl!

ז׳ בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Saturday 7 January 2006)

I am, when I have access to a television, a compulsive 24-hour news junky, and what I think I have in common with all other compulsive 24-hour news junkies is our compulsive need to know the news, 24 hours a day. That’s why I love “the crawl,” the constant rotating headlines at the bottom of [...]

What's it going to be like today?

ז׳ בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Saturday 7 January 2006)

I don’t have a television and don’t listen to the radio, which means I need to rely on the internet for almost all of my news (I can acquire the rest by personal observation), including weather reports. In the Jerusalem summer, that’s not difficult at all: hot, dry, cool at night. But in the winter, [...]

Betar Reunion

ו׳ בטבת ה׳תשס״ו (Friday 6 January 2006)

I’ve hardly ever been prouder to be a member of Betar than last week, when I attended a reunion for American Betar at the Begin Center. Barry Liben, a Betar alum from New York and owner of Tzell Travel, in whose offices I used to meet with the New York Betar alumni group, donated a [...]

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