Foto Friday #43
Filed under: Art, Blogging, History and Culture, Israeliness, Life
Good morning, Mia Compadres.
Spring’s in the air. No doubt about it. Warmer weather, birds a’singing, greenery in abundance, flower carpets everywhere.
Stumbled upon this wonderful photographer’s work – Bachspics is his profile name. Quite the eye & technique, don’t you agree?
Happy weekend…your friends @ Israelity.
Washing before Prayer
Acco Fisherman
Prayer
Spectating on Wine
If you’re a wine enthusiast i.e. the kind of person who actually notes the vanilla tones and earthy finishes and understands the pressing need to take a day off work & drive 30 miles to Healdsburg to purchase the boutique winery’s allotted one-case-per-customer Reserve Chardonnay your friends have been raving about, then I need not fill you in on the role of Wine Spectator within the world of oenology.
Wine Spectator writer Kim Marcus is currently touring Israel and tasting & writing it as he goes.
You can read his entries here, from his arrival to tours of Carmel, Rosh Pina and the Golan Heights. You’ll have to create a logon to get the full stories…
Married? Single? How Old?
Blogger Jewneric, a self-proclaimed bi-culturalist, sometimes finds it necessary to “adjust” to acute differences between a North American versus Israeli mindset.
Particularly when it comes to the workplace…
A few days ago, I had someone who does some work for me at my office, who is currently seeking a new job. I printed out his CV (resume) for him, read it, and made some minor punctuation and grammatical changes (in Hebrew for an Israeli) on it. I mentioned that is still shocking for me to see that people place their marital status on their CV’s. (Parenthetically, I am also shocked when firms place that they are looking for someone between 25 and 32 on want ads. Ageism is illegal here, but it is widespread.)
As I conveyed my reaction, my friend looked at me quizzically. He was flabbergasted, and stated that it is very important to know if the applicant is married. When pushed, he was hard-pressed for a substantive answer.
Oh, don’t get me started! Go over to Jewneric. Read. Leave a comment. You need not specify marital status or age.
Motherload Binge
Talk about the Binge to beat all Binges:
According to this story, thieves broke into a Haifa factory earlier in the week and made off with 100 tons (!!!) of chocolate spread.
Moshe Veidberg, one of the company’s owners, told the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot it would require five large trucks to transport the stolen chocolate, which he valued at roughly $415,000.
He said the company’s alarm system was deactivated and its surveillance footage stolen as well, leaving the fate of the creamy chocolate a mystery.
Wow…the uses for that much chocolate…wow.
Speculation is, however, that the heist was an inside job..
Ya think?
tia, froylein.
New Solar System!
Yahoo! Just when it looked like we’d have to vacation in Greece…AGAIN. . .
A team of worldwide scientists and “amateur stargazers” have discovered a new solar system that looks a whole lot like ours.
The group includes Israeli scientists working out of Tel Aviv University, this JPost article sez.
Friday’s Science Journal carried the story and aside from the actual find, one cutting edge aspect seems to be the way in which the solar system was spotted.
The team of astronomers from 11 countries used a technique called microlensing to spot the planets.
“Microlensing works by using the gravity of the star and the planet to bend and focus light rays from a star behind it,” lead researcher Scott Gaudi of Ohio State University said. “If you are looking at one star and another passes in the foreground (gravity from the front star) will focus and bend light rays. That causes the background star to be magnified,” he added.
Eurovision 2008
This is Israel’s official entry to the 2008 Eurovision this year. Boaz Mauda with Keilu Khan (As If Here). Semi-finals May 20th in Belgrade.
Barack Talks
You’ve probably seen them. The e-mail messages making the rounds about Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
You know the ones…they talk about his Muslim upbringing, his radical leanings, picture him in Muslim-esque garb.
And then you also may have heard that Louis 
Farrakhan has publicly endorsed Obama…
Hmmmm, utter pro-Israel types or those who adhere to the Jewish faith.
Ladies & Gentlemen: Mr. O has spoken. To the Jews. In Cleveland and now in Israel via an interview granted to Israel’s Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot.
Allison of Pajamas Media is carrying a few prelude quotes from the interview carried in today’s press. The excerpts are teasers for the full megillah scheduled to run in the paper’s weekend edition this Friday.
A sampling:
…the Jewish community and Israel fears that because of your Muslim background you will favor the Arab side in the Middle East conflict. How do you respond?
“First of all, it is important to state the facts: I am not a Muslim and I never have been. I never studied at a Madrassa and I have never sworn on the Koran. I am committed to Christianity. For four years I lived in Indonesia as a child and I studied at a secular school. When I am sworn in, I do it on a Bible that belongs to my family. Those who know the facts do not doubt my commitment to Israel’s security and my commitment to the U.S. relationship with Israel….
You wish to read further material? Take a trip over to Allison’s…(linkage above)
Massachusetts Travel
When our favorite funny guy Benji read this Haaretz story:
Study: For Israeli women, going on vacation means more sex
…having sex is an important factor in a woman’s satisfaction from her tourism experience. In some cases, it is even an essential element and/or a motivating factor for the vacation, meaning that the vacation is perceived as an opportunity for a couple to conduct their sexual relationship in a new, relaxed environment……a trip backpacking was described by participants in the study as an opportunity to have casual sex in a foreign environment. In such instances, the number of sex partners increases….
…He promptly acted as any smart & enterprising business person might do:
Enter “Benji Massachusetts Travel” where …When you travel with tour guide Benji Massachusetts, you can be sure you are getting the finest in relaxed environment, the finest in trip backpacking, and the finest in whatever the hell else these women said they wanted.
We currently offer trips to Thailand, South America, the Far East, and for women hailing from rural Israel who consider Tel Aviv to be a tourist attraction, an apartment on Sderot Chen near Kikar Rabin. (Please be advised that the other person living in the apartment goes to bed around 10 PM. Parking not included.)
Ach, the transparency. There’s more to life, BL.
Really.
Skittles Alert!
This just in: Skittles are no longer Kosher in Europe.
I repeat: Skittles are not Kosher in Europe anymore.
Hurry. Stock up on the kosher ones while you can. Where you can. Run!
(But can you still get ‘em in Israel?)
30 Days
Filed under: Blogging, History and Culture, Life, Profiles
In Jewish tradition, thirty days after a burial or “shloshim” marks the end of the 1st period of mourning.
Why 30 days? The Jewish calendar is marked by lunar time. As the moon waxes and wanes in a cycle, the 30-day period of mourning is an opportunity to emotionally come full circle. The process begins with the funeral and first days of shiva, when not even a glimmer of light is seen. As time goes on, the light slowly comes back, fuller and fuller. The 30 days is an important central cycle of time, a time to renew and to come to grips with a new reality. 
Blogger Elms in the Yard has written a heartfelt tribute to friend Beverly Burge who died suddenly last month. Beverly “was the section head of the Quarantine Unit at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo where she hand-raised many animals including a tiger, lion, kittens, ferrets and, last of all, a Persian leopard named Roo who died last year.”
Beverly’s “shloshim” will be marked tomorrow in Jerusalem during a special memorial service.
“Beverly Burge?” asked the angel. “Welcome! Right this—” Suddenly she froze. “Goodness! Duck!”
Bev looked into the distance and grinned. “Cassowary,” she corrected as the cloud of feathers, fur, skin and scales hurtled closer. The angel leaped aside as a young Persian leopard sprang forward, knocking Bev to the ground.
“Roo, let me up! I’m glad to see you too, but I can’t hug you all at—”
Roo nudged her gently, his eyes twinkling.
“Oh,” Bev breathed, spreading her arms and finding that her embrace was as wide as it needed to be. “Oh. I guess I can.”
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