You Want the Hunger? Or, a Very Weird Night in the Golan Heights
When Mike, one of my closest friends from college, announced that he was going to visit Israel in early summer, I was thrilled. I was...
A Story About Meat, A Story About Cheese... But Not Both Together.
Several of my friends have told me lately that ‘funny/weird/exciting things just seem to happen’ to me. But I would disagree. Not about...
The Time I Watched the IDF Chase Egyptian Soldiers Out of Israel
The past month has been full of dozens of blog-posts-worthy of stories, and yet here I am, my first night living in Jerusalem, just...
The Time A Bedouin Kid Taught Me How To Herd Sheep
Yom Kippur, as most Jews observe it, has just never been my thing. I understand the concept — to skip food and the fun luxuries of life...
Hot, Dry and Just Getting Started
I’m sitting inside an bus barreling through the Negev desert, straight south to Kibbutz Ketura, deeper and deeper through endless hills...