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Blogging the War: An Existential War

July 20, 2006

This article was posted on Jewish.com on Thursday, July 20, 2006. The link is here.    The war with Hezbollah is one that Israel cannot afford to lose. As war enters its eighth day and the north of Israel continues to be pounded by Hezbollah missiles, while Haifa braces for further attempts at hitting the […]

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Blogging the War: Still Life, With Missiles

July 19, 2006

This article was posted on Jewish.com on Wednesday, July 18, 2006. The link is here.How Israelis go on with “normal” life while war rages all around them   It’s been almost three years since I started writing “This Normal Life.” The goal when I launched the blog in August 2003 was to describe how Israelis […]

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Blogging the War: Tourism Hit, Not Decimated

July 19, 2006

This article was posted on Jewish.com on Tuesday, July 17, 2006. The link is here.    Hotels and beds and breakfasts across the north of Israel are empty and Macaulay Culkin and his girlfriend, Mila Kunis, have left Israel, but many tourists, campers and birthright groups are remaining in Israel despite the war raging across […]

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Blogging the War: War in North and South Lets Israel Reshuffle Deck

July 18, 2006

This article was posted on Jewish.com on Tuesday, July 17, 2006. The link is here.    In the fifth day of the 2006 Lebanese War, Hezbollah missiles killed eight in a strike on the Israeli port city of Haifa while the Israeli air force pounded more targets in Beirut and the south of its northern […]

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Bloggging the War: Mixed Mood

July 18, 2006

This article was posted on Jewish.com on Monday, July 16, 2006. The link is here.    Residents in center of Israel comfortable, but apprehensive as war in north and south rages. At about 5 p.m. every Shabbat afternoon, the parks in the comfortable Tel Aviv suburb of Modi’in start to fill up with families. The […]

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Blogging the War

July 17, 2006

You may have been wondering why I haven’t blogged the war that has been raging in Israel. I have…but not here on This Normal Life…yet. I’ve been hired by Jewish Renaissance Media to provide daily posts on the war on its sites: Jewish.com, the Detroit Jewish News and the Atlana Jewish News. Those reports began […]

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Munich in Florida

March 17, 2006

I almost didn’t go to see Steven Spielberg’s latest film “Munich.” I wouldn’t have been alone in that decision; many of my friends had already refused to attend. The film was biased against Israel, bordering on anti-Semitic at worst; difficult and violent at best, they’d heard. In the end, journalistic and Zionist curiosity won out. […]

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Reporter Loves His Vonage Phone

July 31, 2005

Always fun to be in the news. How I got picked up to be the featured article on the home page of the Vonage Forum for a few days last week, I’ll never know. I even got two separate postings. All I can say is: isn’t Google great? Here are the links: http://www.vonage-forum.com/article2010.html and http://www.vonage-forum.com/article1877.html

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The “Settler” from West Jerusalem

July 24, 2005

(The following op-ed piece appeared on HonestReporting.com.) Picture that appeared on the front page of the Sunday Chronicle For the past three years, I have been writing a decidedly non-political blog called “This Normal Life.” My goal has been to present slices of what passes for “normal” life in today’s troubled Israel. I have very […]

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Summer Color Wars

June 30, 2005

  “We’ve got a problem, boss.” “What is it, my esteemed chief marketing guy?” “It’s with our brand.” “Our brand? What could be wrong with that? It’s incredibly simple, ultimately recognizable and licensed to companies around the world.” “It’s been expropriated.” “By who?” “The Israelis.” “That doesn’t sound like a problem…more visibility for us.” “No, […]

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