Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Hiking near the Dead Sea
Last weekend, I went on a hike with an Israeli hiking club. I knew one other person on the hike who is American by birth, but has now become an Israeli citizen. The hiking club is known for being a ‘hard-core’ hiking club. You basically hike with water and food for the day, and then [...]
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Meeting up with old friends
This past weekend, we had a chance to catch up with a group of old friends. On Friday, my friend Noam and Valerie, his girlfriend, came to Jerusalem to visit us and to get ready for a cross-Israel bike ride. Seems like everytime we get together, there is always something else going on that is [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Love this video
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Obama and Football
This morning I woke up at 1:40am to start watching election results. We in Israel didn’t have it so easy that we could start watching at 7pm and just have a nice relaxed evening. I headed over to my friend Brian’s place (he had CNN), and then an ‘American’ bar was hosting an Election party.
Overall, [...]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Photography
Lately, I’ve taken many of the pictures that I’ve taken (or Scott or Jessica have taken) and started posting them onto Flickr.com/chadica. I post there for 2 reasons. The first is so that you can see the pictures and get a glimpse of what we are doing and seeing while overseas, and the second is [...]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Happy Halloween
Sadly, Halloween isn’t celebrated in Israel. That didn’t stop the Rabbinic students from having a Halloween party. It amazes me the custom ideas people came up with in a city that doesn’t really have costume shops or thrift stores. I think I’m inspired to have a $10 or under Halloween party next year. People definitely [...]
