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Taking a break from my ongoing account of our US & Canada trip for some local affairs. A short recap of this week’s events for those of you who do not have Israelis or Iranians among their Facebook friends. Or haven’t read watched CNN or Al Jazeera. Or read the New York Times, Washington Post, [...]

Floods all over the world, in Australia, Brazil and Europe. Here, the weather is fine, sunny and dry, mostly, but we face our own murky waves, those of racism and hatred. Racist statements by Rabbis and political figures, demonstrations against African refugees, and now Avigdor Lieberman and members of his party who question left-wing organizations’ [...]

I confess, when the Bibi-Libermann government was set up, I took a break. The current political climate in Israel is too harsh for me. Instead of facing it, I turn the other way. Escapism is my therapy of choice – I just focus on my family life, our up and coming trip, or silly reality [...]

I’m working on a Big Brother post today, but stopped to post a quick one about our lesson yesterday. The kids go to school, but since they don’t get any homework to speak of, we add a daily lesson at home. Usually it’s either Hebrew, Math or English, but yesterday, we did a lesson in [...]

Once again, I see the same dynamics in action. An Israeli posting something negative, but true, about Israel. It could be criticism of the government’s policies in the West Bank, about soldiers mistreating Palestinians at checkpoints, or about some cab driver making a racist comment against Arabs. Things that happens in Israel, unfortunately on a [...]

What? Haven’t you heard? Israel has turned into a police state. Censorship all over the place and people are afraid of talking about “the affair” lest they get thrown in jail. “The authorities” were considering renting out a Gulag in Siberia for offenders, but it’s almost summer here and spending July in a cooler place may be [...]

Looks like Israel is about to join the list of places where American photographer Spencer Tunick has taken one of his mass nude photographs. You can see his previous work here. Personally, I find his pictures somewhat disturbing. In my world, masses of naked bodies, especially when lying down like in this picture, are automatically [...]

Tornadoes are so rare in Israel most people don’t believe they exist here. In fact, they are so rare, your average Israeli doesn’t know the difference between a tornado and a hurricane and they two are almost synonyms here. So, when my brother-in-law from Kibbutz Ortal called us to say he was within tens of [...]

Some interesting people and “issues” in this season’s Big Brother in Israel. In my posts about Big Brother Men and Big Brother Women, I reviewed the “special” people. We had one guy with Tourrette syndrome, one girl who used to be a guy, one deaf person (and a bit crazy too), one Polaniya (Polish woman [...]

First of all: Ha! Told ya! I said in my last post that Daleet Leumi won’t be staying for long and indeed she was the first participant to leave the house. With that out of the way, I can continue with part two of my Big Brother participants post and this time let’s address the [...]