The Marriage Witness

March 15, 2007

A couple of good friends of ours are getting married. In order to tie the knot, they needed two men to testify at the Jerusalem office of the Chief Rabbi that they are single and that therefore their upcoming marriage would not in fact be a case of forbidden adultery. They asked me to be […]

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Jack Attack

March 8, 2007

Thirteen-year-old Merav’s phone call was teary bordering on hysterical. It was hard to make out what had happened: was someone hurt? Had she been jilted by a boy? “It’s Jack,” she sputtered through breathless sobs. “He got away…we don’t know where he is…he could get killed…what are we going to do!” Merav had been entrusted […]

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My Hair Vote

March 2, 2007

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Biking in the Shadow of Gaza

March 1, 2007

Tucked away in the shadow of the Gaza Strip lies a magical meadow of rolling hills blanketed with rich red anemones and long green grass. Interested in visiting? You’d better act fast – the flowers are only in bloom for another two weeks. This veritable Hobbit’s paradise is one of Israel’s true hidden gems, situated […]

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Brian on The Joey Reynolds Show

February 22, 2007

This week, I appeared on The Joey Reynolds Show, a talk program that airs on WOR 710 in New York as well as 100 AM radio stations across the U.S. from midnight to 5:00 in the morning. Joey was broadcasting from Israel for the week and invited me to be a guest in the studio. […]

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Israeli rockers to get by with a little help from.. Oleh! Records

February 15, 2007

Friday afternoon is a time when many Israelis are winding down, preparing for the Sabbath or taking a break at the end of a hectic workweek before heading out for a night on the town. But at Tel Aviv’s Levontin 7 club, situated in a seedy, rundown neighborhood in the south part of the city, […]

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My Hair

February 8, 2007

For the past several months, I’ve been growing my hair long. The official reason is that my thirteen-year-old daughter Merav wants to dress me up as a girl for Purim, and she wants my hair longer so she can braid it or work with it in some way. But there’s another explanation. As my haircutter […]

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Jewcognito

February 7, 2007

Ahmed, our tour guide, clearly didn’t know what to make of us. He definitely realized that something about this “typical” American family was odd. We showed a surprising amount of interest in Cairo’s Ben Ezra synagogue where we demonstrated our proficiency in reading the inscriptions in – gasp – fluent Hebrew. We were all “vegetarians” […]

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If You’re Going to Egypt…

February 1, 2007

Well, we made it back from Egypt and we had a fantastic, fascinating, amazingly awesome experience. We felt perfectly safe the entire time and never felt any antagonism, though that might have been in part that no one actually knew we were either Jewish or Israeli. See this post on how we traveled “Jewcognito,” entering […]

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Branding Israel

January 26, 2007

During the 2003 run up to the war in Iraq, France found itself bitterly opposed to U.S. plans, earning it derision from conservatives who went so far as to insist that U.S. government cafeterias rename certain “French” foods as freedom fries and freedom toast. But at no time did France lose its image of also […]

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