Posts under ‘Israeli Culture’

Finally! Season Four of the Israeli version of Big Brother started on Sunday. As with previous seasons, I am going to post about the housemates, for those of you who speak some Hebrew and try to follow the show. These posts have proved to be very popular in the past, so I decided to take [...]

This post is about a campaign calling Israelis who left for the US to come back home. When we were traveling in the US, browsing Israeli websites from American ip addresses, the ads kept coming up. “Come back home before Abba turns into Daddy”. Abba being the Hebrew word for Daddy. They had several versions [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, I posted about the Men of Big Brother Israel and now it’s time to continue with part 2: The Women Liam Raz – the last one to enter the villa, Liam opens my list. She’s 27, from Haifa, and is both beautiful and apparently very intelligent (any Technion student can’t be too stupid). She [...]

The third season of Big Brother Israel started last week. Seventeen men and women are locked away in the villa, performing strange tasks given to them by Big Brother, hoping not to be voted out by the viewers, who can monitor their every move and word 24/7. My past posts about Big Brother Israel proved [...]

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 [...]

Broadcasting the latest news in Jewish Laws today. Don’t laugh – I’m on the first page of Yahoo search results for the term “Hannuka”, along with the Chabad site, Torah.org and Wikipedia, so I think that makes me an authority site on Jewish religion, don’t you? My latest discovery is that Broccoli is as bad [...]

Went out on the weekend and came back with a movie review and some good words on a local chain of restaurants. The movie is local too, so if you don’t live in Israel or not visiting, this post may be irrelevant to you. The movie was Land of Genesis – a unique one-of-a-kind production [...]

The school year ended yesterday here in Israel. Today I took the boys to “Kaytana” which I think can be translated as “day camp”? I think this is a good opportunity to finally post about the school my kids go to – the democratic school. I have been meaning to do this for a while, [...]

In a sense, even though the Jewish nation is thousands of years old, the Israeli nation is just about a century old (or, depending how you count, only sixty-two years old). Part of the Israeli journey towards a coherent cultural identity is culinary. The very question of “what is Israeli food?” is often the focus [...]