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Category Archives: Humor
For Your Next Airplane Trip
I’ve been busy, with several days of “excavating” in the City of David and then several days up north on a “get-away” with Kelli. Now I have a stack of midterms to grade. But here’s something for you the next time you’re sitting next to someone on an airplane who is annoying you. Just turn… Read More »
Todd's Tips for Dating
I looked tonight and saw that I haven’t posted anything here in a week. Sorry to disappoint. I guess nothing has come to mind at the right time. But I looked through my stack of “drafts” and found something that, while unpolished, might get me out of having to think harder. Yesterday was, of course,… Read More »
Mental Health Center
Kfar = village. Shaul = Saul. This is a real place in Jerusalem. If you don’t get it, read 1 Samuel 18-31.
Please Leave Your Underwear At Home
I figure one convent sign deserves another… Perhaps my Russian friends can tell me if the original is less humorous. Lest you think this blog is going downhill fast, here’s a link to translation issue that I think may be helpful to some in clarifying how “dynamic equivalence” in translation works. “Dynamic equivalence” is a… Read More »
Passport Control
I lecture for six hours today, and so I’m stealing a post from my friend Josh. This video is in Hebrew, but you’ll understand it anyway. The gist of the conversation is that the guy coming into Israel doesn’t look like the photo in his passport.
Holy Land Photo Quiz
When you’re busy doing other things, you start doing silly little photo quizzes on your blog. So here goes… Where was this photo taken? Click on the photo to see a large version before you try to guess. a. Next to a basketball court in Jerusalem b. At a cemetery on Mount Zion c. At… Read More »
Denying Jerusalem's Existence
No, this is not a story about the latest Muslim claim regarding the Holy City. Actually, it’s the Israelis who claim in a new tourist brochure, “Jerusalem – there’s no such city!” This English brochure was translated from the Hebrew and is more accurately rendered, “Jerusalem – there’s no city like it!”. The error was… Read More »
Just Say Yes
I may not be famous, but I went to high school with two people who are in the news today. Marion Jones ‘B’ sample came back negative and Dmitri Young was released from the Detroit Tigers. Both have had problems allegedly with substance abuse and both make a teeny bit more than I do… Read More »
An Epitaph
Spotted yesterday: this gravestone marker for the wife of James De Rothschild, son of Baron Edmond De Rothschild. Any ladies out there want to put this on their tombstone? A close-up: