Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 21:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Doctor’s orders http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/doctors-orders/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/doctors-orders/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:00:32 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=109966 In a previous post I wrote about my suffering from PID – Post Israel Depression, and ‘unfortunately’ I now – almost two months later – must say that I am still suffering. In fact I get ‘sicker’ every day. It’s not just about the weather. Although that would be understandable considering it’s -8° C in [...]

The post Doctor’s orders appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/doctors-orders/feed/ 1 A pro-Israel blogger has no time off in this country http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-pro-israel-blogger-has-no-time-off-in-this-country/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-pro-israel-blogger-has-no-time-off-in-this-country/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:53:47 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=99094 A pro-Israel blogger has no time off in this country. And the country in question is Sweden. The lunatics are everywhere. They’re not evil though, they’re just fed by the Israel-trashing hooligan media. For decades the public has absorbed the lies and the propaganda, so how could they know anything else? When a friend posted [...]

The post A pro-Israel blogger has no time off in this country appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-pro-israel-blogger-has-no-time-off-in-this-country/feed/ 1 PID (Post-Israel Depression) http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-you-israel/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-you-israel/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:07:30 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96954 Toda raba, Israel for yet another great week. My sixth visit and this romance is not cooling down. On the contrary it just keeps getting hotter, so I guess it must be real love. I admit I’ve been in love before. Not with countries but rather with cities; Madrid (I was very young) was followed [...]

The post PID (Post-Israel Depression) appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/thank-you-israel/feed/ 11 Greetings from Sweden (please get me out of here) http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greetings-from-sweden-please-get-me-out-of-here/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greetings-from-sweden-please-get-me-out-of-here/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:32:48 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=82708 Sweden has turned into a country where one apparently can say just about anything about Israel and/or the Jews – and get away with it. Considering the growing antisemitism in this country one should pay close attention to any antisemitic slurs. Let me present to you the Palestinian-Swedish TV personality Gina Dirawi – a very [...]

The post Greetings from Sweden (please get me out of here) appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greetings-from-sweden-please-get-me-out-of-here/feed/ 8 They just don’t care http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/they-just-dont-care/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/they-just-dont-care/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:14:25 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77732 What a horrible weekend it was. And what a horrible sleepless night I had. And I wasn’t even sitting in a bomb shelter! On the contrary, far away from the terror, in (for now) safe Sweden I was tossing and turning in my bed. The frustration I felt was out of this world. And Monday [...]

The post They just don’t care appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/they-just-dont-care/feed/ 2 A rally for Israel and against nothing http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-rally-for-israel-and-against-nothing/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-rally-for-israel-and-against-nothing/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:56:01 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=62086 Yesterday could have been just another grey and boring Sunday, but it turned out to be quite the opposite, thanks to the pro-Israel rally that took place at Sergels torg in the very center of Stockholm. The square in the Swedish capital lit up with hundreds of waving Israeli flags and Israeli music filled the [...]

The post A rally for Israel and against nothing appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-rally-for-israel-and-against-nothing/feed/ 5 Taking your kippah out of the closet http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/taking-your-kippah-out-of-the-closet/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/taking-your-kippah-out-of-the-closet/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:03:34 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=59616 You may have heard about last week’s “kippah walk“ in Malmö — the third largest city in Sweden. If you google “Malmö + anti-Semitism” you will get a lot of hits, so I will not get into all of that. But! We had a “kippah walk” in the capital too! (Pictures here and here.) Yes, we [...]

The post Taking your kippah out of the closet appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/taking-your-kippah-out-of-the-closet/feed/ 7 Spotting menorahs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/spotting-menorahs/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/spotting-menorahs/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:06:35 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=47616 In my first post I spoke about how I found – and fell in love with – Israel. Now it’s time to get just a little bit spiritual and talk about how I discovered Judaism. Back in the days when I made my first Israeli (and Jewish) friends, I realized I knew basically nothing about [...]

The post Spotting menorahs appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/spotting-menorahs/feed/ 1 A little ‘regime’ here and a little ‘apartheid’ there http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-little-regime-here-and-a-little-apartheid-there/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-little-regime-here-and-a-little-apartheid-there/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:37:26 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=49760 Just like last time I had a happier post in mind, it will have to wait because I’m furious (again). The Israeli documentary “Mom and dad, I Have Something to Tell You” (by Assi Azar) was supposed to be screened next week during Stockholm Pride. As it turns out it has now been canceled due to [...]

The post A little ‘regime’ here and a little ‘apartheid’ there appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-little-regime-here-and-a-little-apartheid-there/feed/ 0 Standing with Israel is not an easy thing to do http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/standing-with-israel-is-not-an-easy-thing-to-do/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/standing-with-israel-is-not-an-easy-thing-to-do/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:46:36 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=47696 In my previous post I wrote about how badly the Swedish media reports about anything that has to do with Israel. Israel is always the bad guy and all the great things that come out of your country hardly gets any attention at all. I don’t know why this is and I don’t know when [...]

The post Standing with Israel is not an easy thing to do appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/standing-with-israel-is-not-an-easy-thing-to-do/feed/ 7 How I fell in love with Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-israel/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-israel/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:08:34 +0000 Kim Milrell http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=46060 Some five years ago my life changed for good. There goes a very distinct line, forever dividing my life into a “before and after.” What happened to me was Israel. I must admit I had always had a special “feeling” for the country — ever since I was a child. To be honest it probably had something [...]

The post How I fell in love with Israel appeared first on Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-israel/feed/ 19