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Nov 21, 2016, 11:34 AM

Trump and Der Leader

Godwin’s Law states broadly that any Internet argument will eventually invoke Hitler. The best known corollary to the law states that the moment Hitler is invoked the argument is over and whoever brought up the Hitler comparison automatically loses....

Jul 9, 2014, 10:09 AM

On November 18, 2012 I posted a longish status update on Facebook that made more than a few people laugh. Earlier that day we'd been bombed (by 'we' I mean Israelis, not my family specifically), and I wrote a...

May 5, 2014, 11:43 AM

A Yom HaZikaron Vignette

Bar-Ilan intersection; 11:00 am. The mournful sirens started wailing maybe fifteen seconds ago. Traffic is slowly coming to a stop. An old mini-bus, too narrow to take corners at any speed slowly turns right at the intersection, the driver obviously looking...

Nov 24, 2013, 10:34 PM

Divorce, Israeli style

“We should get a divorce,” says Sweetie. It’s a lovely fall afternoon when she speaks these words. The sky is blue, the air cool, the sun low on the horizon as we walk the dog in a moshav near...

Sep 10, 2013, 9:23 AM

The Day of Atonement and Bicycles

In a few days Israel will shut down. No TV, no movies, no entertainment of any kind. No cars on the streets, absolutely no business open for any reason. Evening comes and in synagogues all over the country the...

Jun 27, 2013, 8:57 PM

A Fine Kosher Pickle

Israel’s Supreme Court all but ordered that Tel Aviv mini-markets and other shops be closed on Shabbat, and I’m all for that. As of last Tuesday, not only is it illegal for supermarkets and shops to be open on the...

Jun 16, 2013, 12:48 PM

“The Army Doesn’t Need Them”

Rivers of ink have been spilled over the issue of whether to compel haredim to serve in the army and if so how to go about it. And floating along that torrent there is a sneaky little argument for...

May 19, 2013, 1:34 PM

The Bully from Baltimore

The story thus far. A few weeks ago a rabbi from Baltimore, Maryland by the name of Aharon Feldman decided to pick on MK Dov Lipman. Lipman had made a proposal that about the educational content that should be included...

May 7, 2013, 9:29 PM

Restarting the Start-up Nation

I gave my inner curmudgeon the night off. What follows are some thoughts on the Israeli job market devoid of sarcasm or cynicism. Your regularly scheduled dose of snark will return in the next post. I joined Comverse in the...

Apr 28, 2013, 1:14 PM

Burning Down the House

Lag BaOmer has got to go away. It is time we let it die and quit celebrating arrant idiocy, highway banditry, and uber-greed wrapped in nationalism. Put Bar Kochba out of his misery and let the rest of us...

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About Me

Benjamin Levy is the CEO of IsItYou, Ltd; an Israeli start-up specializing in mobile face recognition; He was born forty-six years ago in Mexico City and lived for a long time in California. Today he is married to an Israeli and the proud father of three. To date, he’s managed to fit in getting three degrees, launch a democratic school, hold eight proper jobs, completed over eighty consulting assignments, and worked in 61 countries, and fourteen of the world’s time zones at last count; His favorite line of poetry comes from Rainier Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: “to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.”