Israel isn't a big market. Over the course of its history it's had a bunch of print newspapers, but until the 2000s, let's say, we had three main print newspapers: Yediot Acharonot (ynet online), Maariv (maariv online), and Haaretz (haaretz online, which in the past vaguely and today firmly takes the most left-leaning approach to news coverage ( Read more... )

So today included ( Read more... )

Preface: This post is going to be about a bad experience I had with, specifically, the Orthodox Jewish establishment in Israel, which is technically the only kind of state-recognized Judaism there is here. This country sometimes, I swear.

A good friend of mine is getting married on Friday, and she asked me to go to mikveh with her last night.

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I'll post about something happy soon cause I've had a pretty great weekend and overall, it's been busy-good, but ugh, no :( I just found out a coworker's father was killed in the kosher supermarket attack in Paris. He was - never mind the story, but it's utterly chilling ( Read more... )

1. They are talking about a ceasefire tomorrow morning, negotiated by Egypt. I'm not actually clear on whether both sides are on board yet but ugh Pleasepleasepleaaaaase let this happen. I mean, for one, obviously less death and war, but also it will mean I can go to sleep again dressed in a less decent clothes than the shorts I've been wearing in ( Read more... )

(warning for some talk of death ( Read more... )

Things are quiet now; it's amazing how quickly you can shift between modes, normal vs national emergency. This entire week feels like it took dragged on forever, yesterday morning feels like a year ago, and at the same time I feel like I barely blinked and now it's over ( Read more... )

Hi guys, just checking in to say everything is fine with me. No concrete information on what caused the explosion in Tel Aviv, everyone at work is mostly checking in with family and refreshing news sites and trying to figure out how much to worry and making morbid jokes ( Read more... )

Air sirens in Tel Aviv! Fun times. I have nothing to complain about; there are, by far, people worse off than me, like, say, the Palestinian population, like every Israeli in the south whose lived under fire for the past twelve years. So you know, I'm good. I'm not even staying in Tel Aviv over the weekend. It's a little weird, and new, and I will ( Read more... )

Ugh, I don't even know what to link to, but fuckety fuck fuck fuck. Here we go again.

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