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English book stores and sales in Jerusalem - used and new books
Here is a list of bookstores that have a selection of new or used english books. Please leave me a comment with any more details about these bookstores.
*Updated thanks to responses from the Yahoo group IsraelBooks, and commentators.
1. Sefer VeSefel
Location: City Center | On Yavetz St. which goes from Yaffo to the [...]
How to find an apartment in Jerusalem and the rest of Israel
A list of the apartment websites that have been helpful to me and hopefully will continue to be helpful to others. If you have updates about these sites or new sites, leave me a comment.
1. Magar Meida (English and Hebrew): Daily email with latest listings. Costs roughly 250 shekels for 2 months. [...]
How to find a job in Israel - helpful websites
Here’s a list of helpful employment websites for recruiters and the unemployed alike:
1. Israemploy: (English) Daily updates. You need to give a mandatory donation. I don’t know if this is still the case.
2. Janglo (English)
3. Kehilaton (English)
4. AACI - Jobnet (English and Hebrew)
5. Alljobs (Hebrew)
6. Shatil (non profit) (Hebrew)
7. Muvtal (Hebrew)
8. Drushim (Hebrew)
9. [...]
Today’s Balagan and Chaval Award
Today’s Balagan (mess) and Chaval (shame) Award goes to the Classics Book Store which closed its business today. Located downtown on the steepest alleyway between the municipality (ugh! Arnona) and the misrad hapnim (Ack! The face office), is a yellow gated, easy to miss, used English book store. Here’s how it looked inside. Imagine [...]
Supermarkets are not for the wimpy.
Israel has finally figured out how to sell packaged meat. Until now, you needed to go to the meat counter and order what you wanted. But this technologically advanced country has finally caught up and invested in a plastic wrapping machine and an open refrigerator. As I approached the packaged chicken section, I was disappointed [...]
You made aliyah! you crazy?!
When you make aliyah, it seems normal. You’ve prepared yourself - if that’s possible. You’ve lined up something in Israel that you’re looking forward to. So why is it that when other people I know make aliyah, I think it’s the craziest decision. How the hell did you do it? You just left everything like [...]
sabra cats
At some point during the course of living in Israel, you find yourself in a situation with a sabra (Israeli-born) cat - whether you want to or not. It might be your cat, it might be someone else’s cat, but nonetheless there is a cat situation that must to be handled. When I lived in [...]
The meaning behind the big falafel
This blog is dedicated to Jon Stewart of the daily show and his cousin Rebecca Leibowitz. It was on the set of the daily show that I was called a ‘uvula’ for the first time. (the thing in the back of your throat that dangles down). I was hoping to be recognized as a [...]
