‘Holidays’ Posts
Occupation Day… Or "How I spent my summer vacation"
Tweet Butt. Poop. Budge. Intrigued? Amused? Slightly repulsed? Join the club. These were just three of the new words that the Little One learned to use with great gusto during his two weeks in an American day camp last month. Of course, it now seems like ages since we were [Read More]
My son the five year-old
Tweet The celebrations began two days ago with a field trip. As the Little One’s birthday falls on Shavuot this year (which begins today), we opted for an alternative sort of birthday party, taking his entire pre-school to the Old Courtyard at Kibbutz Ein Shemer. The [Read More]
Excerpts from an audio diary
Tweet The essay below is the transcript from my January 8th audio diary entry (filed on Wednesday evening, January 7th), written specifically for the BBC World Service radio show “The World Today“. Currently, two of my three diary entries can be found online [Read More]
How Chanukah began…
Tweet Little One: Mommy, did you and Daddy fight the ancient Greeks and win, or was that just Grandma and Grandpa? [Read More]
Another year, another muppet…
Tweet As usual, I am procrastinating. I should be emptying out the dishwasher, filling up the water bottle, tying up lose ends on a project, and getting ready to run out the door to pick up my cousin at the train station. Instead, I’m looking up cheesy Rosh Hashanah [Read More]
Out with the old and in with the new
Tweet Happy New Year! Not, of course, that you’d know it was any sort of special day around these parts, given that both December 31st and January 1st are considered regular days here, and while more and more local establishments are going out of their way to offer [Read More]
What will you be eating on Christmas Day?
Tweet I once told an Israeli friend of mine who relocated to the US about some of the Jewish traditions that I grew up with, and he later admitted to me that there was one he hadn’t quite believed, until he saw it for himself. So, what will you be eating on Christmas [Read More]
80s Music Video Sunday #47
Tweet Life wasn’t easy when I first went off to college in Boston. I had just spent a year abroad in Israel and, having already gotten used to living away from home without having my parents around, I found it more than a little disconcerting to find myself surrounded [Read More]
Why they really went to Annapolis…
Tweet I was very skeptical about last week’s Annapolis conference. I didn’t expect anything to come out of it, and I was rather dubious with regard to some of the participants (and clearly I had good reason to be, as Allison points out here). In his severely [Read More]
You're spending Chanukah where?
Tweet Chanukah – the festival of lights, begins this evening at sundown. At work, we had a company candle lighting ceremony, where I managed to scarf down an outstanding, obscenely calorie-ridden sufganiya filled with caramel, while at the same time explaining the holiday [Read More]
