Sunday, December 11, 2011
The Texas Grill - Eilat (2000)
Anya and I were looking for something filling one evening while staying Eilat. We happened upon the Texas Grill, which sounded pretty good. A "real American BBQ" on the Red Sea coast? Count me in!
Well, long story short, the short ribs were just plain awful. Not too much meat and not too much BBQ. I think a better description of the restaurant would be "The Real Israeli Interpretation of American BBQ by Someone Who Never Had American BBQ." I ate what I could and then made my way back to the nargila bar!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Cleaning Guns - Hatzerim Airbase (1996)
For a couple weeks I participated in the SAHAL program, which is essentially volunteering with the IDF. You are helping out the military by doing the BS work that would normally be done by soldiers. Here we are at Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert cleaning UZIs, M-16s, and Galils. Our supervisor Oren, nicknamed "Vegas" by one of us because he had spent time there, was really nice - even though he would confide in me that American girls drove him up the wall, especially when you had to deal with a bunch of 'em at once. No shit, chaver!
The newest recruits had to sleep in those tents in the background. Suckers!! Also funny, the soldiers on the base who had screwed up and lost their gun (or misplaced it) had to walk around with fake guns painted red and made of wood! Talk about shaming someone into never making a mistake again...
Friday, September 2, 2011
The OTZMA X Songbook - Eli, Eli (1995)
A mandatory entry in the American Jew's songbook is Hannah Szenes's "Eli, Eli." Her story of Jewish nationalism and anti-Nazi heroism is legendary:
In 1941, Hannah joined Kibbutz Sdot Yam and then joined the Haganah, the paramilitary group that laid the foundation of the Israel Defense Forces. In 1943, she enlisted in the British army in the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class and began her training in Egypt as a paratrooper for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). In March 1944, she and two male colleagues, Yoel Palgi and Peretz Goldstein, were parachuted into Yugoslavia and joined a partisan group. After landing, they learned the Germans had already occupied Hungary, so the men decided to call off the mission as too dangerous. Szenes continued and headed for the Hungarian border. At the border, she was arrested by Hungarian gendarmes, who found the British military transmitter she was carrying, used to communicate with the SOE and other partisans. She was taken to a prison, stripped, tied to a chair, then whipped and clubbed for three days. The guards wanted to know the code for her transmitter so they could find out who the other parachutists were. She did not tell them, however, even when they brought her mother into the cell and threatened to torture her too.
This is a songsheet handed out (probably on a Shabbat) during OTZMA X:
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Volunteer Card From My Life-Changing Year
I can't remember if I've said it before on this blog, but my year in Israel as part of the OTZMA program changed my life forever - and here is where it all began. After arriving in the country we filled out these cards, which gave us volunteer status for 11 months. I have reflected on that year almost every day of my life...and that was 1995-96!
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Erotic Massage (Without Sex!) - 2007
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30 minutes - 150 NIS
45 minutes - 190 NIS
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Please tell me the point of being massaged by naked girls when you can't have sex?! Even so, my wife wouldn't let me call.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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