It’s the end of August. Chofesh hagadol is over, thank God, and tomorrow morning the kids go back to school. In Jerusalem that means moving season is at its peak, because nobody switches...
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Because Israel is YUM!
The Restaurant Has a Name, Besties!
My parents took me to Paris three times before I ever went with my school, and every single time it was for my own good. That was the actual pitch. Paris would make me cultured. Paris would make me...
Stairs, Ships, Swedish Babes, Menachem Begin and a Tuna
Athens in 1982, a ferry with no beds, my father’s sunken destroyer, and a song about a Walkman and heartbreak. A photo of a staircase showed up in my feed this week and the memories started flooding...
Mamdani’s Selective War Criminals
Zohran Mamdani spent basically his entire mayoral campaign promising he would personally arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if the man dared set foot in New York City. Not “I support the ICC.” Not...
Ben Gvir’s Crocodile Moat. Not A Joke.
Let me say the sentence out loud so you understand how insane it sounds even before we get into why it’s also just historically illiterate, ineffective and breathlessly stupid: Israel’s...
Jerusalem’s Shabbat Coffee War Has a Missionary Problem
Jerusalem was rocked over the past two weekends by Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) Jews protesting on Shabbat afternoons against a recently opened new café located in the downtown area, Café Basimta (in the...
Choreography, Not Courage: Rahm Emanuel in Tel Aviv
Rahm Emanuel gave a speech in Tel Aviv yesterday. OK. Cool, right? I met his niece, Rebekah Emanuel in Jerusalem in 2012 at one of those 2-day conferences that the city’s tourist infrastructure...
Vigilante Criminals, Not Settlers
I want to be friends with Mayor Aliza Pilichowski. Maybe the three of us, her, me, and her husband Rabbi Uri Pilichowski, who has his own remarkable site full of essays and Torah teaching, can grab a...