So I was having my nightly 5 minutes relaxation with the newspaper and a hot choc when husband asks if my letter to the Jpost had been printed. I had clean forgotten I even wrote it, a mere 2 days ago. [I swear I had a good memory before I had kids]. Anyway he opened …
(This letter appears in The Jerusalem Post – 25 January.) Sir, – It’s interesting how Tova Ben-Dov, the new president of WIZO, develops her argument for women’s lib (“Women should be driving the bus!,” Comment & Features, January 22). She seems to view staying at home with small children as a punishment. Funny, that. I …
Winter is truly here, and its actually quite cold for Israel. Our mould continues to grow. All our bedrooms have black walls, our furniture is destroyed and the place stinks. Its now even turning up downstairs, creeping through the corners. Mould is not considered a health hazard here apparently so their aint nowt we can …
Chanukah is a special time out here, of course the communal candle lighting is fun and the latkes and the parties but to be honest the best thing has to be the Crembos. For the uninitiated, a crembo is the traditional Israeli “seasonal” treat, a combination between a marshmallow and a chocolate biscuit, yet not …
It has been a very difficult 2 weeks, probably the most challenging since our aliyah. After spending a freezing cold shabbat [even more freezing than normal in this damp, godforsaken house] with a headache that actually got worse after a shabbat shluff … I was feeling so dreadfully ill that Husband called a doctor to …
I remember thinking before I made aliyah how Israel is consistently 10 years behind on pretty much everything. I still think that, except, perhaps, some extremely important medical discoveries and the odd bit of technology, which is totally useless because it never filters down to the average israelis life, but I digress… still they say …
Well it looks as if Eilat is our holiday for the next 15 years, since lets face it, no other affordable city is an appealing option. Well maybe Dubai. I suppose it’s all in the choice of passport. I quite fancied the dead sea but was somewhat put off after a bad contact lens incident …
When I was in my twenties, and spent many a night out partying at fundraisers for Magen David Adom, I never imagined it would be my kid sitting in the back of one of those donated ambulances. I supported those events wholeheartedly, partly because I always thought a [as a fundraiser myself] that a houseparty …
The Jpost claims that most Israelis do not celebrate Rosh Hashanah because they don’t really know what to do. With no agricultural significance, and lacking the intense holiness of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah is the festival that gets short shrift. That doesnt stop the country buying it’s weight in honey though. So apparently we Israelis …
Somehow a year since the world’s most uncomfortable ride to Tsfat hospital has passed, and the baby is now 1. So we decided to throw him a birthday party. In true Israeli style we politely waited til the last minute to invite half our guests and prepared a pile of pashtidot [hebrew for quiche-type food] …