Once a year, there is a week long period during which Israelis take the time to remember events from the past. It begins with the Holocaust Memorial Day and ends with Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers. Both days are characterized by their profound moments of silence that are accompanied by the sound of a country-wide [...]
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One of the wonderful things about living in a more international context is meeting all kinds of people from various walks of life and, I sincerely believe that if you allow them to, these relationships can open you up in ways that nothing else can. Of course, with the good stuff comes that other side, [...] When living in a different country, one realizes that culture is a very complex organism with a set of fluidly interchangeable rules that can only be truly understood by natives. For everyone else, it’s a constant negotiation (either that, or complete and total blindness). Since I moved abroad, I’ve realized that many aspects of our [...] April 26th, 2009 | Filed under: Deeper Meanings, Life Abroad |
 Comments are closed |  Print this Page As the army service is truly a pivotal point in the life of almost every Israeli, it is not surprising that when many of them complete their service they tend to have the same reaction, aka flight. Or, if we want to be a little more politically correct about the matter, we can say that [...] There is a phenomenon here in Israel that is definitely out of the ordinary, and that is the constant movement of soldiers from one end of the country to the other. If you are a tourist or a new immigrant, this reality is especially evident as they represent a large portion of the population that [...] And there is no question, that whether or not it was done intentionally, the resulting comparisons litered the local media this morning with parallels drawn between Ahmadine-jihad and Hitler. Seeing as how this kind of tactic is typical of sensationalistic media and clearly targetted at the deepest paranoias of the Jewish people as a whole, it [...] That’s what I learnt today from a 20 year-old student who, when asked what difficulties he encountered while integrating into Israeli society, said: None None. Can you believe it? I have to admit that, given my own experiences, this statement was really hard for me to swallow. My initial reaction was complete and total skepticism [...] So after a particularly difficult weekend, in which my emotions actively jumped from one end of the spectrum to the very opposite extreme in the span of a whole five minutes, I decided to do a little web sleuthing in order to see if i’m the only crazy person out there who is finding life [...] It’s a strange set of affairs living in another country. As someone close to me recently said: I don’t know how you did it. I moved to another city and everything felt so different… Even now, eight years later, I only know how to get to and from my apartment, where to buy milk and how long [...] There is no question in my mind that modern technology has revolutionized standard communication and turned it into something much much more dynamic. Each form of communication, e.g. blogs, Twitter, SMS, Facebook, Digg, etc., has it’s own particular style and method that defines it as a medium and, each one allows for a different kind [...] |
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