tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38795821135494884362024-03-20T21:41:29.934+02:00The Aliyah DiariesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-44956681620056999222013-03-13T08:01:00.000+02:002013-03-13T08:01:15.180+02:00The Point of This Blog
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As I was drifting off to sleep last night a thought popped
in my head. It struck me with a sense of intense importance. An importance only
endowed to emergencies of war, childbirth, and thoughts that occur in the murky
space between sleepiness and dreaming. I realized, considering last night’s
blog post, some of y’all might get a negative impression of Israel. Which is
fair enough. I wrote about a nasty incident of sexual harassment. Not fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, Israel is my home and I love it here. I think it’s important
to say. There are a million reasons to
be critical about it. A trillion reasons to laugh about it. But for the life of
me I can never think of a single reason why I love it. I just do. I had a teacher once tell me that when a
person first gets married they have a long, long list of reasons why they love
their spouse. They love their spouses sense of humor, looks, table-manners,
etc.. But as the marriage progresses in
time, the list gets shorter and shorter until there is no list anymore. The
person just loves the other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This struck me as such a lovely sentiment. I'm not married, but that’s
really how I feel about my home. I feel like adulterous every time I step on
and airplane. I feel such comfort in the hilly green beauty of Jerusalem and
the eclectic ocean front of Tel Aviv. I don’t actually know if it is
objectively beautiful. It’s just like a familiar face. It’s comforting. It’s
home. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And I know part of the problem is that so many different
people and peoples think the same thing about this tiny strip of land. So I
hope I never take for granted living here. And I pray I never stop being able
to be critical and more importantly, being able to laugh about it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>Bhatzlacha all</o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-79222232457865490052013-03-12T23:34:00.003+02:002013-03-12T23:34:56.299+02:00Response to Comments<br />
Really wish I could do this in the comments section, but its not working for some bizarre reasons. Maybe just my technical ineptitude. At least it provides a great opportunity to use the word ineptitude.<br />
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In response to comments left on I<a href="http://aliyahdiaries.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/im-not-your-sweetie.html#comment-form" target="_blank">'m Not Your Sweetie </a> by Anat. :<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">"These things make me angry as much as anything possibly can! I do think it's terror, it makes you afraid and feeling helpless and vulnerable... I suggest carrying pepper spray. Even just for the sense of safety! It just makes my want to curl my feminist mustache in despair "</span><br />
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So I agree with you 100% I think that we're taught to sort of treat this kind of day to day violence against women like its nothing. I know I take it for granted that any time I walk down Ivin Gvirol I will probably get harrassed like this at least once, if not more.<br />
The last line sort of says it:<br />
"How are you honey?” she asks with a kiss to the cheek." - potentially a gesture of comfort.<br />
"“Absolutely fine. " I say, and for some weird reason, it's true. "" - its weird, precisely because it is weird to be okay with this kind of bullshit. It's bizzare we just put up with it.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-66378815051929335392013-03-12T11:01:00.001+02:002013-03-12T11:04:19.776+02:00Response to CommentsFor some reason, I'm having a bit of difficulty posting responses to comments. But I just want to respond to a comment that was left on <a href="http://aliyahdiaries.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/the-evil-eye-blinks.html?showComment=1363028907508#c5420307952198281768">"The Evil Eye Blinks" </a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">'ll take the risk of sounding super naive,But did this really happen or is this like,Prose? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">A short story?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">First off, It's a really good question. I like it. </span><br />
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I don't really know how I'd classify my writing literarily. I think they are too short to be short stories, so maybe they are tiny stories? </div>
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Also, they don't happen exactly like I write them, but almost. </div>
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I hope that answers your question. If not I'm madly in love with comments, so leave some more. </div>
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- Fumbling</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-62515723410584494082013-03-11T19:41:00.000+02:002013-03-12T10:54:36.137+02:00The Evil Eye Blinks <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKeIjWOUFHimQcS_kHrzxrNJQwZmF-syXKn18qb2QiT9gAe1R-xO0NkM6OEJPUK9pmgMWvgHGaYbEze5UHkZYCFij0h0alKAgBEAkjDLLI05FBzu7dvWgcUW13MZmb9yfpseOgmzdNnIB0/s1600/IMG_0050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKeIjWOUFHimQcS_kHrzxrNJQwZmF-syXKn18qb2QiT9gAe1R-xO0NkM6OEJPUK9pmgMWvgHGaYbEze5UHkZYCFij0h0alKAgBEAkjDLLI05FBzu7dvWgcUW13MZmb9yfpseOgmzdNnIB0/s320/IMG_0050.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Art by Me, <br />
pictured: Hamtza, and a semi-kabalistic rendering of the Rekiyahs</td></tr>
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It wasn't her boobs that made me stop and gawk. No. Pushing my cart in the dingy grey <i>makolet</i> (corner market),
something glitters in the corner of my eye. I turn. A great golden <i>Hamtza </i>bounces ominously with every
breath she takes. I stop. The filigreed hand bobs up and down waving
at me like the hand of Midas resurrected. This awakens in me sudden anxiety. The feeling someone I think I know is waving at me, but really they are just waving at
the guy behind me. I have to actively suppress the urge the wave back. Instead
I choose to awkwardly run my hand through my hair. Nearly free, I turn to pick
my yogurt, but its single lidless eye captivates me. Transfixed. I cannot, now, resist the
urge to stare. To gawk- to gape – seduced by the unblinking blue eye
cradled in the palm ebbing in the midst of liver spotted cleavage. Against my
will I’ve entered into a staring contest with the eye of Sauron. To blink would
to cause mini-Orcs to come crawling out of the long dark crack of her cleavage.<br />
<br />
There’s a truth to this, I reason, like Sauron, the <i>Ayin Hara </i>too<i> </i>is an evil eye. The religiously<br />
superstitious, part of me is
certain that if I break eye contact with this manifestation of the <i>Ayin Hara</i> I will have bad <i>Mazal</i>
(luck) for all eternity. Though, I should have figured that openly
ogling another woman’s breasts in the middle of the market is probably also not
the ticket for good luck.<br />
<br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
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The older woman clear her throat, and I am thrown back to
reality. Back to the dairy aisle. Back to a world where I must look like a
lesbian. Albeit a desperate, socially-inept lesbian, staring at leathery old
breasts in the middle of the <i>Makolet. </i>Reluctantly,
I break eye contact from the pendant and meet the lady’s gaze. Her eyes are brown
but milky, coated in a blue veil of age. Her round face is dark and crumpled
with cigarette wrinkles. <o:p></o:p><br />
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“Can I help you?” she asks with her eyes and with her
wrinkles.<o:p></o:p><br />
<br /></div>
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I have no idea how to respond. I try and make my eyes say “I
might be beyond help Ma’am.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She keeps staring,
and I assume my eyes said something else. Her cart blocks my way. Should I say
something? Should I use the go-to trick of men caught with wandering eyes? The
ol’ compliment the necklace. Even though it’s true for me, I feel can’t say a line
too often lied. So, should I lie instead and compliment her breasts? No. That
is a horrible idea. They might be hoisted up high courtesy of French
Aerodynamics, but unhinge the clasp and God only knows. Swing low sweet
chariots. The intense desire to wave at the <i>Hamtza</i>
overtakes me again, but before I lift my hand, my mouth takes matters into it’s
hands – lips? – and says: “Do you know where I can find peas?” I ask in English
hoping, praying, she might just show me the toilet and I can have a laugh
later.<o:p></o:p><br />
<br /></div>
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Breaking eye contact really did grant me bad luck for
eternity. The old woman smiles, her face creasing further like a giant walnut. She
proceeds to list every different type of pea available to me. Frozen, canned,
fresh, dried, whole, split, green, white, red….<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
While she lists, my mouth and brain engage in a brief
dialogue:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Dear Mouth –<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Just remember, you
were the one that thought of this, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Brain”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Dear Brain, <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Please rescue me. I
don’t like peas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mouth”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Dear Mouth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is your baby. You deal with it<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bugger off, <o:p></o:p></div>
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Brain.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But but but.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“But what sweetie?” The old lady asked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“But what kind peas are best for soup?” I ask. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Evidentaly I’m making soup. I just came in for some
emergency rations: chocolate and pizza. Cure to comorbid PMS and exams. Now
this enormous savta raba has highjacked this plan and I may be stuck eating
something with actual vitamins. I long for rude abrasive stereotypical Sabras. But I have been saddled with the nicest lady. She
drags the front of my cart behind her, snaking up and down the aisle. Wheeling
me around she fills up my cart with ingredients. Carrots, celery, grains, spices
whose names I can’t even translate. We reach the meat counter and I cringe. The
browning red meat behind the glass makes me more homesick for North America
than a thousand Katusha rockets ever will. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The woman negotiates with the butcher for a bit. Rousing him
into service and renegotiating four or five times about the cut and trim of
fat. I should just make a run for it now. Abandon my cart and sleep for a week.
O! glorious sleep. But when I try to move, my shoe squeaks on the linoleum,
catching Savta Raba’s attention. She calls me over. Asks where I think I’m
going. And I don’t know why I feel so beholden to this woman, but Sauron
between her breasts threatens me with his unblinking eye. If I leave now, all of Middle Earth will burn. Or maybe just me. It's hard to read the expression of a lidless eye without an eyebrow.<br />
In a haze of moed aleph exhaustion, the choice of Savta
Raba and Sauron versus making a run for it, staying makes more sense. Besides, she is
being nice. And I could use some nice. There’s not enough nice in this world. I strain a smile and
my face feels like it might crack from the effort. Savta Raba seems to take
this as encouragement. A giant leg bone of a cow lands with a clatter into my
cart. What the hell? It’s nearly as long as my arm. Upside down, the long
bright white Styrofoam and cellophane package shines like a beacon in the
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“It’s good.” She says. With that smile. An enormous half
circle on her round, round body. All round and suishy, she’s wider than she is
tall. An image of her puffed up and rolling down a hill like a human beach ball
pops into my brain. I smile a bit at the thought. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“New York?” she asks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You have family in Israel?” She asks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“No.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You come to me for Shabbat?” She asks, but it doesn’t sound
like a choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Right…. Find a way to get out of this. The Eye of Sauron
gives me a dirty look, heaving up and down. I can’t do this anymore. Please God
who may or may not be out there. Send me a lie. Pleeeeeaaasssse! Send me a lie.
Right. Brain. Think of a lie: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, thank you. I would love to come.” My mouth says. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Seriously, Maybe God!? Not the lie I was looking for. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She let me cut her in line. Graciously, she gestured with
her round gelantonous arm waggling about. Afraid I might actually have to
purchase half a bovine skeleton, I politely tried to demure. No success. Bodily she forces me ahead. I
cringe as the cashier weighs the bone. Maybe I should just cut my losses as
this point and buy a dog. I lay down two weeks worth of grocery money on this
bone. Grudgingly parting with both my dignity and my need for food. Nearly
free, out the door, cart returned, five shekel piece retrieved, Savta Raba
calls out after me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I didn’t get your phone number.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I return home and lay out my purchases on the kitchen table.
My roommate looks at the bone, looks to me, looks back to the bone and shrugs.
Silently she walks back into her bedroom. We’ve adopted a live and let live
approach to living with one another ever since I took up the uekele. A silent
live and let live approach. So she’s not really going to help me cook any of
this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The bone lies in a
rectangular sturofoam plate, protruding a bit on both ends. Held in place with
clear cellophane it glistens in my flouresent apartment. I behold the almost its
curved length, the thin strip of pink gristle and chunks of coagulated white
fat. I try to approach it with an apporiginal’s ingenuity. Like an inuit in the
frigid depths of Canada. I could make soup, and a bowl, and some fancy art or a
knife or something.. Perhaps I need to think like a caveman as this has to newly
discovered the mastodon fossil. It’s massive. Enormous. It will take days and
days to just heat it up, let alone cook all that brown marrow thoroughly. I do
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My phone rings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Shalom.” Though the number comes up as unknown, I know. I
know who it is. I know its her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Hi.” I respond.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So you coming?” she asks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Savta Raba calls me in time for Shabbas. Part of me is
amazed. Another part is certain this would happened. Of course I incurred
the wrath of the <i>Ayin Hara. </i>I blinked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks so much for sticking with me. I know it's been forever since I posted anything. I recently moved from Jlem (Jerusalem) to TA (Tel Aviv) so it's like across the country. I've been a wee bit focused on that.<br />
I'm now embarking on an integral part of the Aliyah process. -No, not starting Uni.- Visiting my parents abroad. All I really have to say about that is I found the<a href="http://cargocollective.com/holycacao/ONLINE-STORE"> best gift </a>for my dad:<img src="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/6/203938/3231637/c_905_905_905.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://www.holycacao.co.il/">http://www.holycacao.co.il/</a>
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I first tried it at the Jerusalem Wine Festival, it was seriously the best thing I ever tasted. Seriously. It's smooth dark chocolate with cinnamon and chili peppers. It's intense and delicious.<br />
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They have lot's of other flavors and stuff, and you can buy the chocolate in health food stores here, and online.<br />
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Wish me a safe flight, Nisiyah Tova<br />
B'Ahava,<br />
L<br />
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By the way, I'm in no way paid to endorse this. I just believe in supporting and promoting Israeli brands. And also it's really tasty. :-)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-9665992237356325772012-08-06T10:03:00.002+03:002012-08-06T10:03:31.099+03:00Cool Stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Princess Penelope Sees Sceninc China.<br />
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Still no word from the Warehouse Bandits in many days.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-23244850490722141382012-07-29T18:25:00.001+03:002012-07-29T20:59:23.509+03:00Butterfly on a Black and White Bus<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Sign visible at the front of all Egged Bus Company Busses. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Translation:</span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>All passengers are permitted to sit in all places that they
choose. With the exception of places designated spots for people with
disabilities. Discrimination and harassment of passengers in this regard is
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So I wanted to visit my friend in a <em>Hariedi</em> neighborhood in the north of Jerusalem. It takes two buses and about two hours to get from where I live to to my friends. After the first leg of the journey, I alighted, at the stop in a mixed neighborhood.<br />
After about a fifteen minute wait, the bus pulled up and opened the back door, an anomaly, usually buses open from the front door only. It's a security precaution, so the driver can see who comes on and off. I shrugged it off, figuring it had to do with the fact the bus was exceptionally overcrowded. It had been a long time since I saw my friends and I dressed especially for the occasion. Despite the oppressive heat of the day, I took special care to cover my collar bone, elbows, and knees. My friends are pretty open minded, so I did not wear stockings or closed toed shoes, though that is considered standard dress in the neighborhood. I wore a long sleeve green gingham shirt, unbuttoned over a pink and purple striped tank top, a knee length denim skirt, blue fingernail polish, sparkly pink toenail polish sandals and two perky pigtails bouncy, on either side of my head. <br />
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I walked to the front of my bus, not to make a political statement, but rather to pay my ticket. Because while sitting at the back of the bus might be a rabbinical decree from the <i>Gedoley Ha Dor</i> , G-d Himself said not to steal. Even from The Egged Bus Company. <br />
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As I approached the front of the bus several women handed me their electronic bus cards to swipe by the driver. I wondered why they felt it acceptable for me to journey into only-man's-land but not them. But I decided better not to ask. The bus turned and swerved and snaked through the city. I made my way through the men's half of the bus like a technicolor anachronism in a black and white film.<br />
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Like a butterfly flitting among a forest of bearded trees I made my way to the driver. All the men reeled back from me as I extended my arm to the card reader. <span style="background-color: white;">Afraid of violating <em>shomer negiyah</em> the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i>halachic </i><span style="background-color: white;">principle that men should avoid touching women outside their nuclear family, they parted like I was Charlton Heston, and they the Red Sea. </span>I put in my card and the card of my fellow female passengers. I felt simultaneously like a slut and a martyr. It's rather a weird thing for a Jewish girl to relate so closely to Mary Magdalene, but I at that moment I did.<br />
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I made my way to the back of the bus. But, the vehicle was overcrowded so I grabbed a bright yellow pole in the first available spot. In the men's half. I stood, undulating with the bumps and turns of the road. Again, completely covered from collarbone to knee, I suddenly felt that my bus pole had transformed into a stripper pole. I tried to put the thought outside my mind. It's all in my head. Right? It's all in my mind. Those women in the back in their black and brown ponchos aren't staring at me. Right? I'm not a whore for standing where there's space? I'm not a slut for wearing green. And purple. And pink. And denim. Right?<br />
I closed my eyes and tried to put it outside of my mind. stand on a bus. I bent my knees and steadied myself balancing with the bumps.I feel like this is what it would be like to surf. So I leaned up up against the pole and imagine the sea.<br />
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Voices leak into my reverie. <em>The Jewish people will never be the same. It's such a shame. The worst thing to happen to the Jews. What will the future hold for us?</em><br />
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"What? Really?" I thought. "I'm not... I'm not a bad person. It's just colors. Seriously. The Jewish People have survived much worse than stripes and plaid. " <br />
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A pressure behind my eyes began to grow and a small voice began to scream within me: '<em>I'm a good girl, I am'</em><br />
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Then a great bearded figure behind me said: <br />
<em> The Gadol ha Dor. Rav Elyashiv. Died. </em><br />
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O.<br />
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Um... <br />
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Does that mean now I can stay at the front of the bus?<br />
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Definitions:<br />
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Charedi / Hariedi/ Haredi - Super Ultra Orthodox Jews in Israel. literally from the Hebrew word to tremble. <br />
Gadol Ha Dor - literally Great One of the Generation. Refers to the Rabbis that issue decrees and are highest up on the rabbinical hierarchy.<br />
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Gedolei Ha Dor - Plural or <em>Gadol Ha Dor.</em> See above. <br />
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Halacha / Halachic - Jewish Law.<br />
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Shomer Negiyah - Prohibition against touching members of the opposite sex outside one's nuclear family. <br />
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Seen at the Tel Aviv Centeral Bus Station. Those of y'all that follow my blog will remember the lonely sandwich. Well, the lonely sandwich is lonely no more! I'm so happy the lonely sandwich has now made friends, and has a strong and budding support system. <br />
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Interesting (or whatever, I'll let you determine that) side note: After I took the picture this old guy who works there starts talking to me. <br />
"OOoo. You take picture. Why you take picture of sandwiches?"<br />
"Well, " I reply, "It's a long story. It's for a blog. It's a joke, because the other day there was just one sandwich and now there are many." <br />
"Yalda Chamuda." translation: sweet girl. <br />
"Uhh/" I had no idea what to say. <br />
"You have an accent from where are you? France?"<br />
"Nope. U.S." I replied. <br />
"But do you speak French?" he said. <br />
"Nope."<br />
"But you have a French accent." <br />
"Okay." <br />
"Say something in French."<br />
"I have to go now." I said, as I backed away. <br />
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I really have to learn that Jerusalem manners and Tel Aviv manners are two different things. <br />
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Okay, <br />
Kol Tuv (It's all Good) <br />
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Love to all in Bloggyland!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-27978767764302896462012-07-19T16:21:00.001+03:002012-07-19T16:22:44.623+03:00Hello BloggylandHello Bloggyland!<br />
My internet is a bit wonky so please bear with me and my bad spelling. I will try and post often, with interesting material, but because I'm not at my home computer, it's probably going to be reposts for a couple of days and not original picts and writing. <br />
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Y'all rock, and have awesome taste in blogs, <br />
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'Cause I love folk music like a Grampa.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-86397460258154925252012-07-17T17:27:00.001+03:002012-07-19T08:50:26.355+03:00This is love<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6umzWF8pbL8?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-219950157034926192012-07-17T16:59:00.000+03:002012-07-17T16:59:12.489+03:00The First Photos of Captive Prince Papergoods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First photos of Prince Papergoods finally released! Though he looks gaunt and rather decaffeinated, it's with great happiness to announce that he is alive and relatively well. Experts from the Mossad, CIA, NSA, and Interpol are examining the photograph for all information they can collect. Of the Revelation, Princess Penelope proclaims, <i>"O! How perfect to peruse pictures of my precious prince." </i></div>
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The Warehouse Bandits released their demands with the pictures. 500 million billion trillion kajillion staples, and free wifi for a year. </div>
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Princess Penelope is now adjusting her awareness campaign to a fundraising lecture tour. </div>
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Remember, you saw it here first. </div>
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<i>Source: Yediot Achronot and The Warehouse Bandits. *</i></div>
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<i>*Seriously, I shouldn't have to say it. But CYA Not really don't sue! </i></div>
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<i><br /></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-33324672032155814302012-07-16T08:27:00.003+03:002012-07-16T08:27:50.749+03:00A day at the beach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Beach Somewhere Near Zichron Yaakov</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clouds in July - This doesn't happen often in the region where I live. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self Confidence.</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-79204923479958847242012-07-15T22:30:00.003+03:002012-07-15T22:30:32.808+03:00Princess Penelope in Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"<i>Just like the Eifel Tower looks like an electric transformer, I pray my electric love with transform the world and bring my precious Prince Papergoods back to me... O... and Paris is The City of Love... I guess I didn't really need to stretch for a metaphor there. "</i></div>
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<span style="color: #1122cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Bonsoir</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Source: Princess Penelope's Private Press Corps. </span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-8743759460555142572012-07-15T21:55:00.003+03:002012-07-15T21:55:41.317+03:00Sandwich<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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at<span style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> the </span>Tachana<span style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span>Merkazit<span style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> (Central Bus Station) , Tel </span>Aviv-
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-16799681265779255122012-07-15T19:53:00.003+03:002012-07-17T18:47:01.835+03:00Instruction Manual for Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I watch this video whenever I wonder what the hell someone else is thinking, and why doesn't it make sense to me. It helps me to remember that it's okay. </div>
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I have to sneak in some vegetables with all the sugary silliness <3</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-26571456500130532082012-07-13T11:11:00.002+03:002012-07-13T11:15:45.550+03:00Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/archives/2012/Jul/">Toothpastefordinner.com</a><br />
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To Isra-fy this insert the word cellcom, add a voice-menu that says "press three for english" and listen to the tech-support guy mock you in Hebrew.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-59618999920252782762012-07-13T09:36:00.001+03:002012-07-13T09:39:39.502+03:00Princess Penelope with the President at the Palace<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Princess P Meeting with World Leaders to Further Her Cause<br />
Left To Right: Pres. Obama, Queen Elizabath II (Priness P's Cousin), Michell Obama, and Princess P</td></tr>
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Queen Elizabeth said of the ocaasion, "<i>It is a momentous occasion to bring together the leaders of the free world.We do again send our harshest critism to the Evil Office Supply Bandits and do hope sincerly for the release of my grand-nephew Prince Papergoods."</i><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-8149992010496527702012-07-12T08:27:00.002+03:002012-07-12T08:27:53.864+03:00Princess Penelope Arrives Safely in London<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With a Guard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting a little Friendly</td></tr>
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"It's so cool," she says "he really doesn't move at all."<br />
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Source: Reuters*<br />
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*Not really. Don't Sue.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-5777279481644451442012-07-11T23:51:00.001+03:002012-07-11T23:51:35.526+03:00Princess Penelope's Personal Playlist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We managed to catch up with Princess P while she was waiting in line at Customs. We asked her what music she's been listening to on her flight.<br />
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She's streaming the <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/07/03/156205832/the-mix-the-woody-guthrie-centennial" target="_blank">Woody Guthrie Centennial Mix</a> from NPR. <br />
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Princess P likes her folk music. She says, "<em>Folk music's message of freedom and hope, reminds me of the future I will have when my darling Prince Papergoods is released from the shipping warehouse."</em><br />
Ahh. So romantic. <br />
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She's also listening to <a href="http://commonrotation.com/" target="_blank">Common Rotation.</a> <br />
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If the link doesn't work copy and paste. <br />
<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/07/03/156205832/the-mix-the-woody-guthrie-centennial">http://www.npr.org/2012/07/03/156205832/the-mix-the-woody-guthrie-centennial</a><br />
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<a href="http://commonrotation.com/">http://commonrotation.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3879582113549488436.post-36262402467168888792012-07-11T09:18:00.002+03:002012-07-11T09:22:15.124+03:00Postcard From No One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Source: <a href="http://www.postsecret.com/">http://www.postsecret.com/</a><br />
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I saw this on <a href="http://www.postsecret.com/" target="_blank">Post Secret </a>and thought of all the people I love back home. I just want y'all to know I love you too. XO <br />
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Love, <br />
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Okay, Back to making jokes and sillinessUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0