[cross-posted from My Urban Kvetch] Last Friday, as rockets began to rain in the north, I found myself sitting in the Jerusalem offices of El Al. I had fixed my return date weeks before, while I was...
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Jewlicious @ The Beach: Sinai Edition
Sheikh Ashish of KoomKoom3’s daughter greets the crew You all may have been wondering why some of us haven’t been posting recently. Well, early last week, after ROI120, a bunch of us...
One More For the Road
Took me a while to post this, mostly because I’m in denial that the Muffti has left us. Well, he’s left Israel and has made aliyah to Croatia. Or at least he’s visiting as part of...
In Support of Israel (and Beyond)
Over the last few days there’s been a flurry of activity on the ROI120 listserve (ably set up by Aryeh Goldsmith, so todah to Aryeh) about ways to support Israel, both here (I write from...
How to Find a Wine Guy in Three Hours
Duh, you go to the Jerusalem Wine Festival. It was actually unplanned, but hoped for. I’d heard WG was going to be in J-town, but had no way to contact him. Remembering how erratic he was on...
Sh’ma koleinu, Adonay Eloheinu
Words from the 17th of Tammuz’s penitentiary prayers. “Hear our voice, Hashem, our God, pity and be compassionate to us.” The Three Weeks that begin today and culminate with the...
Two Strikes. Three and You’re Out
It turns out that the IDF allowed Hizbullah back into the same outposts on the Lebanese side from which they fled just several weeks ago. Also, it turns out that the IDF lowered its threat profile...
Beirut Airport bombed
WAR UPDATE Causing delays in some flights, Israel has targeted Beirut International Airport and bombed its towmain runways. Israeli aircraft bombed Beirut International Airport Thursday, sending...