Baseball & Israel

August 1, 2007 by Stephanie · 5 Comments
Filed under: History and Culture, Israeliness, Life, Sports

Nice site and very quick movement on getting it up and running…This is the new Israel Baseball League website where fans can keep abreast of stats, scores, schedules and …

Wow. Slick. There’s even info on finding baseball camps in Israel, baseball and the Bible, and a glossary of English and Hebrew baseball terms.

Excuse me while I go browse.

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Head Gear

August 1, 2007 by Stephanie · 3 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Immigrant Moments, Israeliness, Life

Israel’s newly enacted helmet law requiring rollerbladers, bicyclists, skateboarders or motorized scooter riders to gear up is getting mixed reviews.

While health promotion sites like Rubenu favor the new law – stats cited in this story claim an 85% decrease in injury when riders don helmets – the private sector isn’t altogether convinced.

Not a Fish sez she doesn’t have an issue with the idea, per se, but feels the law should be tailored to younger people and…

I don’t really have anything against helmets. I wore one religiously for years, until just recently. I still wear it on weekends, and when I ride with Youngest. I’d just prefer to wear it out of choice. Being forced to wear one makes me really really really opposed to wearing it.

I stopped wearing it because I got very tired of being so hot and sweaty with it (plus, of course, the not-to-be-taken-lightly fact that it squashed the hard-come-by curls in my hair!). Discomfort caused by wearing a helmet was one of the factors that caused me to quit riding at all, for quite a while. Then I found the careful sidewalk alternative. Still I continued riding with the helmet hanging from my handlebars, just in case. It was only when I got back from Amsterdam, last month, that I ditched it.

Read on for more detail. I personally favor helmet wearing. But a law? Seems a bit extreme and more like a silly loophole for handing out fines.

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