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iPhone: The First International Phone

י"ב באלול ה'תש"ע (August 22, 2010) Aliyah

Since moving to Israel in 2004, I’ve purchased two new mobile phones. The first was a Sony Ericsson T630 that I bought from a shop on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street in early 2005. The second was a first generation iPhone that I bought in America in early 2008. My reason for buying the first phone [...]

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10 Reasons NOT to Delete Your Facebook Account

כ"א באייר ה'תש"ע (May 5, 2010) Aliyah

If you’re in the habit of following these things, you’ve by no doubt now read Dan Yoder’s 10 Reasons to Delete Your Facebook Account. I’ve seen it posted in six or seven places in just the past few hours. Unfortunately, it makes less and less sense every time I skim it. For the following reasons [...]

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Find My Tel Aviv Apartment

כ"ג באדר ה'תש"ע (March 9, 2010) Aliyah

I’ve started a new website to organize, catalyze and galvanize my hunt for a new apartment (no word yet on whether the hunt will be mesmerized). It’s called Find My Tel Aviv Apartment and its main objective is to advertise this fact: I will pay a finder’s fee to whoever gives me information leading to [...]

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Chicken Shnitzel

י"ז בכסלו ה'תש"ע (December 4, 2009) Aliyah

Read it and weep, people. Here I am in The Atlantic, holding forth on one of my favorite topics: chicken shnitzel. My contention is, and has been on many occasions, that chicken shnitzel is the authentic Israeli cuisine because it is the only notable dish invented by Jews in Israel that’s culturally accessible to all [...]

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Beach weather

ג' בשבט ה'תשס"ט (January 28, 2009) Aliyah

It’s the last week in January and today’s temperature is in the mid 70s Fahrenheit – I couldn’t say what that equals in fake degrees – and I’m walking the dog in a t-shirt (I’m wearing the t-shirt; Sharav is nude). To the person who recently asked me if I don’t find life in Israel [...]

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Year Four in Review

ט"ו באב ה'תשס"ח (August 16, 2008) Aliyah

Four years is kind of a long time, about 15% of my life, or the length of a generation in high school or university, or the amount of time it takes for a professional sports team to win a championship, start sucking, and then get good again (not the Redskins), or the term of a [...]

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Where I be (at)

כ"ב בסיון ה'תשס"ח (June 25, 2008) Aliyah

Where have I been for the past few months? Let’s see… As many people know, my job moved to Ra’anana last January, and as some people know, I’ve given notice to my employer that I’ll be leaving, at the end of next week, for a new job in Tel Aviv. The new job is also [...]

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where did three years go?

ט"ז באב ה'תשס"ז (July 31, 2007) Aliyah

Ooops, I turned my head for a minute and another year passed by. I actually did sit down and contemplate the past year on the third anniversary of my Aliyah, thought a lot about it, such as what I did and what happened to me, my decisions, the decisions that other people made that affected [...]

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Have a meaningful Hanukah!

כ"ז בכסלו ה'תשס"ז (December 18, 2006) Aliyah

Growing up in America, I used to think a lot about Hanukah. Hanukah is a really weird time to be Jewish in America for someone who’s passionate about being Jewish while not being brought up religious or in any sort of insular Jewish setting. On the one hand, I had Christians suddenly conscious, all around [...]

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college (part deux)

ז' במרחשון ה'תשס"ז (October 29, 2006) Aliyah

It’s official. For the first time in more years than I’d like to believe, I am a college student. This time around, I’m doing it at the Raphael Recanati International School, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. The degree: a three-year BA program in Middle East Security Studies, Counter-Terrorism and International Relations offered by the Lauder School of [...]

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