Easily Amused
An Israeli Errand…Not Just a Stop at the Dry Cleaners!
The Israeli lifestyle often involves lots of errands. Unlike the errands most of us are used to: dry cleaning, grocery shopping, post office and the bank in Israel you can add bureaucratic government offices to your list.
A typical stop at your local health office, municipality or tax authority means you are stuck in lines without [...]
Are you a member of this Facebook group?
If you thought that Facebook was just a website for your random friends and photo albums, then you are sorely mistaken. If you have ever joined a Facebook group then you know that there are a lot of strange and wonderful things happening in cyberspace.Perhaps you have an interest in toes, well don’t worry because [...]
Funny falafel sign on Ben Yehuda St.
You may have seen this sign in a felafel store on Ben Yehuda St. in downtown Jerusalem. But if not, it’s pretty amusing. And I especially like the apostrophe in the word “buy’s”. I’m still trying to figure out what it could mean.
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My favorite parking spot in Israel: the half-curb
Here is a photo of my favorite parking space. I didn’t know I would ever have a favorite parking spot until I saw this one. I present to you Jerusalem’s official (painted lines and all) half on the sidewalk/ half off the sidewalk parking spot. In the background of the picture you can even [...]
The most unfortunate typo ever
Jay Leno, if you’re reading this and want some headlines for your segment, feel free to to use this. This ad appeared in The Jerusalem Post almost a year ago for a women’s empowerment program, I’ve just been too lazy to put it through the scanner. No offense to The Hebrew University or their program, [...]
Take Out the Trash
The trash cans are overflowing and the stench, overwhelming. The streets are littered with remnants of dinner from last week, stacked ten feet high, and there is no waste worker in sight to clean up this mess. While this could very well be the scene of another trash workers’ strike in Israel it’s actually the [...]
How I Faked It: Breaking Into The Media
I faked it. While the Americans brought their top security guys from America and Israel posted police on every street corner- I managed to sneak into the Press hotel and pretend to be one of them. It amazes me just how lax security was- so much so that I even had a taste of the [...]
Israeli view on spaghetti, meatballs, and the New Hampshire race
As I watched the sign-language translation in the corner of the six o’clock news, hoping to get a peek at how they really translate Olmert into Hebrew sign language, I perked up as the news anchor called their New Hampshire correspondent, Moshe… in an Italian restaurant. As I watched the 2 minute clip rerun of [...]
Best and Worst of 2007: the big felafel style
BEST
WORST
Olmert getting rid of that nasty nasty comb over
Olmert still in Office
Free television online at alluc.org
Television tax that only some people receive even if you don’t own a tv.
The Facebook Song
Annapolis
The dollar losing value
The dollar losing value
Discovering the show Israelim
Discovering they [...]
Did anybody else notice this wacky bus story?
Although I don’t usually focus on news stories, this one particularly caught my eye. (See full article below or at Jpost)
It appears that a man was neglected by Egged at a Kiryat Ye’arim station. Awww… Next thing you know, that guy is getting 18,000 shekels from Egged! Still feel sorry for him?
Is Israel turning into [...]
