Cheder Boy: “Tomorrow is isru chag so I’m so excited about tomorrow in school. We’re having a chidon- contest, a seret- movie, games, and a arucha meshutaf- meal with everyone [the whole school].” I was a little confused. I didn’t know that watching movies was allowed in cheder. Me: What’s the movie about? Cheder Boy: […]
I learned a new fact in Israel. Shavuos is called chag hamayim- the water holiday. It’s a Moroccan minhag that the entire Yerushalayim adopted. I saw many kids pouring buckets and bottles of water all over each other. On Eretz Chafetz- a street in Sanhedria I saw the most disturbing/comical sight I’ve seen in Israel. […]
Who said Israelis aren’t into fashion? I saw at least four girls walking around Geulah in CKNY sweatshirts.
At a friend’s wedding in Bayit Vegan I saw at least ten girls wearing crocks, ranging from garden hose green, bright flashing red, to baby pink. The kallah (and the chosson) had made aliyah so it was an […]
On Shavuos I joined throngs of people walking to the kotel. We all went together through Sha’ar Shechem (there is a place where Jews and Arabs peacefully co-exist together- walking through sha’ar shechem on Shavuos.).
Walking back from the kotel to the courtyard I found myself in a human traffic jam. It felt a lot like […]
I constantly get mixed up with zachar and nekeivah- feminine and masculine words. The Israelis assured me that I shouldn’t be worried because even Israelis don’t speak with correct grammar.
I found out this is true this morning. My three year old nephew came home from gan- preschool and said that he got adashot in gan. […]
I stayed over a family in Sanhedria for Shavuos. Right outside my window I had the gorgeous view of 500 graves. The grave-yard is not even exposed from the street, it’s surrounded by walls so you can only see it if you go inside or from the window of a high-story building. It’s not a […]
Did you ever notice that everyone always remembers that the bar mitzvah boy “spoke beautifully” but no one ever remembers what he said? They remember his posture, his sweet tone of voice, and his hand motions.
I was at a vort which was hosted in a backyard. The boy went up to the balcony on the […]
was sitting on a bus and I was left with only one other woman on it. She explained to me that she doens’t like to be on the bus alone and so she asked me where I was headed. I was going to my cousin’s house in Sorotzkin so I responded “Yesh li pgisha” - […]
The only type of cell phone you can buy or rent in Brachfeld is a kosher one. My cell phone has a kosher stamp of approval on the side which reads “the organization of rabbis have deemed this phone appropriate for communication.” A kosher cell phone doesn’t have any goyisha ring tones like tap dancing. […]
I was in the waiting area of the Kaiser emergency room one year sukkos time because a family member was walking outside barefoot and ended up with a nail up the palm of their foot.
It was really late at night and so on TV the host of a late-night comedy show was saying - this […]