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Tanks, Kubeh, Bourekas and Babies: A Personal History of Immigration to Israel

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  It turns out that Israel takes on different appearances depending on whose eyes it’s viewed through. An early twenty-something steps off the plane and sees through wide eyes a sun-kissed land filled to brimming with young olive skinned honeys filling out olive-toned uniforms in all the right places, deliciously greasy buckets of shwarma meat [...]

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Bloomberg as Hummus

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Long time readers of my blog and listeners of our podcast know how much I love hummous. Now there are a lot of uses for hummus, but fine art is not one of them. Hummus should not be used for sculpting. Ever. Really. Especially when its a sculpture of Mayor Bloomberg. This makes me hate [...]

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Hummus!

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I woke up this morning and read this wonderful article in Ha’aretz about hummous in America. I love hummous. It’s quite an interesting piece. By far, my favorite quote comes from the manager of Hummous Asli in Soho. From the article: Not everyone agrees on how to write the word in English. It is usually [...]

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