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Jerusalem, my hometown: Election Night 2 – Analyses

David Lasoff — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:39:58 +0000

From last night just after the polls closed, still in Tel Aviv down at Hangar 1 in the media center for the foreign press: Well, they are bringing out the most scrumptious desserts! Little cute decadent things with chocolate and nuts and strawberries and they’re all so different and delicious at the same time in [...]

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Jerusalem, my hometown: Election Night 1 – the results

David Lasoff — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:04:36 +0000

So, I’m down here at the media center in Tel Aviv with all the journalists, pundits and party leaders. How’d I get in here? Well, actually the GPO was very thorough and I was on an access list just like everyone else. Apparently, the GPO likes my angle and it’s an easy one to like: I’m [...]

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Jerusalem, my hometown: Election Day

David Lasoff — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:53:32 +0000

So, I walked down Rabbi Akiva street this morning, shortly after 07:00. I couldn’t wait to vote in my first Israeli election. As I turned the corner into the Experimental School, that institution of “childish” learning that’s so nefesh yafeh (literally: beautiful soul but in colloquial Hebrew, the expression connotes a somewhat politically correct attitude with an extra dose [...]

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Jerusalem, my hometown: The Great Debate

David Lasoff — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:24:59 +0000

Right up from the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem on King George street, there’s this pretty great Kosher pizza joint that serves these great big stuffed pretzels and calzones. I went in and had to have a salad too…and a Coke. Okay, I was hungry! Three Anglo women, two from the States and one from Canada [...]

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Jerusalem, my hometown: East Talpiot street names and Pre-Election sentiments

David Lasoff — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:19:11 +0000

So, it was quite the winter storm! Some said it was the most snow they’d seen in Jerusalem in years. I stayed inside and tried to keep warm in my hardly-heated apartment room. Luckily, it has a southern exposure in the mornings that warms things up a little bit. Out from my window, I can [...]

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Jerusalem, my hometown: Viewing the Art of Politics

David Lasoff — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:23:19 +0000

I walked out the door this morning into the worst winter weather that my new hometown had seen in years. But, I didn’t know that, not until very late in the day when I watched a weather report on TV. To me, a new oleh, I thought, hmm, so this is a Jerusalem winter. I brought [...]

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Jerusalem, my hometown

David Lasoff — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:30:10 +0000

On 29 May of this year, I stepped off El Al flight 6 from LAX. I was in Israel for the first time in my life. I was the only oleh on that Boeing 767. I was told that I was to be the only North American immigrant to arrive in Israel on that particular [...]

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