Nostalgia Sunday

September 30, 2007 by Stephanie · 1 Comment
Filed under: Art, History and Culture, Israeliness, Life

This is fun! Yes, indeed. Do you have an “Eretz Tropeet Yaffa?”

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Succot Shake

September 30, 2007 by Stephanie · 1 Comment
Filed under: Holidays, Pop Culture

This is a goodie! Happy Sukkot!

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Happenings

September 30, 2007 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
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We here at Israelity believe in a good time. So we’re spreading the love this Sukkot holiday.

Because there’s a lot of good time to be had in Israel right now and we wouldn’t want you to miss out.

See how we are?

Your Friends @ Israelity.

1) Fruit Pickin’. Here’s a two-for-one deal: Travel up to the scenic Golan area AND pick and eat fruit to your heart’s content. Guava or mango are the current seasonal picks. All at Moshav Ramot. Cost is NIS 10 for adults and NIS 5 for kids. Advance notice required: 052-2796151

2) Graffiti Magic. Feel like putting your unique signature on a sukka wall? Kibbutz Sde Boker is holding a holiday decorate-a-thon: decorate the sukka, put up graffiti on the walls, draw what you feel or scribble your wishes for the country as it marks 60 years of statehood in 2008. NIS 7 for kids; NIS 10 for adults

3) Games Galore!. At Holon Mall, it’s all fun and games. Literally. Sunday and Monday (today & tomorrow) go try your hand at a round of Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly, cards, Building Blocks, Marbles and more. Family fun.

4) Jerusalem March. Like crowds? Then join the other 29,000 expected revelers who’ll be heading on up to Jerusalem Tuesday for the annual march. Check local listings for times and transport info.

5) Israel Arts 6. Israel’s largest art festival starts at 5 p.m. in Jaffa port. Don’t miss the antique mall, huge papier mache doll exhibit, art literature sale, gallery booths, museum generated creative seminars and more. Bar and cafe on the premises. Entrance Free.

This is a mere sampling. Get on out there and get going!

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Sukkot Sukkot

September 30, 2007 by Stephanie · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Blogging, Holidays, Life

Hey there. Sorry it took so long to wish you all a Happy Sukkot.

Moving house between the holidays my etiquette got packed into a box marked “Etcetera”.

I opened the box this morning. So first and foremost, a good one to all.

Here in Israel, kids are off school and that “holiday scent” is in the air. There are festivals, activities, events and fun stuff galore to attend all over the country not to mention dinner invites, social happenings and get-togethers with families to fill in the gaps. All good stuff.

To mark the holiday, we’ll stop by A Mother in Israel’s blog where she lists “Seven Things About Sukkot” that make it unique for her.

Then we’ll post a few goings-on you might want to take in with a special someone, the family or solo if you’re in Israel for the holiday.

Whatever you do this Sukkot, make it a good one….your friends at Israelity.
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Seven things about Sukkot (partial excerpt from A Mother In Israel)

1) My husband likes to quote the midrash where one of the nations tells God it wants to accept the Torah, so He lets them try sitting in the sukkah. The hot sun causes them to come running out. My husband never understood this midrash until making aliyah (immigrating to Israel), because the sukkah in the U.S. was always cold and often wet….

2) My daughter said to me, “Thank you for making aliyah.” We are so happy be be finished with our one and only three-day Yom Tov.

3) Planning for holidays does get easier. I have had the same guests for the first day of Sukkot three years running. I finished cooking late Wednesday and didn’t have much time to think about organizing the serving, sleeping, or heating up the food. But thanks to a combination of older children, familiar guests, and experience everything ran smoothly. I even found an old list of items to bring to the sukkah but the challah knife, salt shaker and soup ladle had already arrived in the basket.

Go on over to Mom’s blog to get the rest!

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Toxic

September 29, 2007 by Stephanie · 1 Comment
Filed under: Art, Blogging, Pop Culture

Israeli jazz artist Yaron Herman is about to release a new album and one of the titles is his “jazzed up version” of Britney Spears’ Toxic. Give a listen here.