Lag B'Olmert

All I can say is that I wouldn't mind it if a Talansky would park his jeep by my house and throw some of his envelopes into our garden….instead all we got this year were torn Bamba bags and empty yogurt cartons.

Sweet Sixty

The economy sucks, the drivers are jerks, the rich are obnoxious, the poor want to be rich, and a very ugly person in Iran keeps threatening to annihilate us, but then suddenly.., for a few days in May, we are expected to cheer up and celebrate what a fantastic county Israel is.

The Prophet

During the course of any year in Israel…we are hit with so many mind-boggling events that it is difficult to absorb all the information and pretend to be intelligent at the same time.

Rosemary’s Baby II

Eileens review of the Sequel to “Rosemary’s Baby”
She tries to pretend that she was an innocent victim…but eventually, even she can’t ignore the signs that something is terribly wrong!

To Whom The Band Visits

The best thing I can say about the "Band's Visit" is that it is only 84 minutes long.

Eileen’s conception of the “New Seven Wonders of The World”

Internet facilitated the election for the “New Seven Wonders of the World”. Everyone in the whole world was able to vote! Having access to the Internet was helpful. So was having 700 trillion million citizens like China so that their “Great Wall” came in first place. Surprise! Surprise!

Boring summer

Some thought the war would start in June.
June is a good month for wars. Lots of them started in June.
If someone mentions “The OCTOBER War” you know immediately which one they are talking about, even when Yom Kippur falls in September.

Time of the Year again

Between phone calls, I reflect about brilliant bank owners, who are so smart that they earn trillions of shekels a minute making MY money work for them