by Adam | Tuesday 27 July 2010
TFR Shoutout:Daniella Cheslow, journalist nonpareil, who accompanied me to Jenin. I boarded the van from Jerusalem to Ramallah a little after 7:00 in the morning, it was cold in a way I hadn’t felt in a long time which is...
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by Adam | Monday 26 July 2010
A couple articles of mine were in the Jerusalem Post today. The first piece is about how one of President Obama's friends from his days in Chicago (and a small focal point in the 2008 campaign) is now helping arrange...
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by Adam | Friday 23 July 2010
by Adam | Tuesday 20 July 2010
Coincidences like this happen. Not realizing the saddest of all sad days on the Jewish calendar --a feat like beating Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, and Italy in the same World Cup-- is upon you the same day you visit...
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by Adam | Monday 19 July 2010
Forgive this brief break from blogging. brief break from blogging brief break from blogging brief break from blogging brief break from blogging brief break from blogging I've run away to the Negev Desert; mere meters from the grave of David...
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by Adam | Thursday 15 July 2010
The JTA is now reporting that the Queen of Jordan did not have Hebrew book offers to reject and so she is not a big, thin hypocrite, but rather a hot, regal mensch. Here's the grain of salt, the kind...
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by Adam | Thursday 15 July 2010
Yesterday (while I was writing oddly descriptive screeds about jellyfish) Haaretz reported that Queen Rania, the extremely attractive wife of King Abdullah II, has turned down numerous offers to have her children's book translated into Hebrew. What is her...
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by Adam | Wednesday 14 July 2010
Meduza (pl. meduzot) are commonly known in English as jellyfish, jellyfishes, aborted octopi, or little motherfuckers. Despite its misleading benevolence, I’ve always enjoyed the idea behind the name jellyfish: they are JELatinous fish (I kid), but this appreciation was...
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by Adam | Tuesday 13 July 2010
If only bacon could be sung about so poetically here. Thank you Hootie. I miss America....
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by Adam | Sunday 11 July 2010
Last week I attended a lovely little reading in Jerusalem featuring writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Etgar Keret. I've written a piece about it for the Jerusalem Post and I hope you enjoy it. JPost, Page 5...
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by Adam | Saturday 10 July 2010
Michael, the Sheikh Ahmed Yassin spiritual advisor of TFR/naturalized Israeli responds to my quite pessimistic first post from Israel with this: You're a dickhead. I hope desert flies bit your ass while you tried to sleep. I will now reverse...
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by Adam | Thursday 8 July 2010
by Adam | Wednesday 7 July 2010
Agnon's house in Talpiot. It's on an old hill in Jerusalem that overlooks something neither city nor desert. Agnon's house has a space in the back for us to assemble and as we do, we're quoted his Nobel Prize...
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by Adam | Thursday 1 July 2010
Author's Note: I'm becoming ever-familiar with the failings of the blogger/traveler balance. I've had all of 30 minutes of internet access this week and only a few hours to write so what you're reading is an early draft of something...
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