{"id":636,"date":"2008-03-27T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T23:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/03\/27\/a-movie-you-should-watch\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T23:49:56","slug":"a-movie-you-should-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/a-movie-you-should-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Movie You Should Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like I’m not going to say much about Spring Break, given that some time has passed and I really need to spend a lot more time with my friend Jehu.  I’ll say simply that it was probably my best Spring Break when I didn’t leave home.  Admittedly, it feels weird to call wherever I am “home,” but I wasn’t off in some strange land without my wife and kids, so let’s call it home.  We had a wonderful time with a group of students who drove forever to see us.  We saw where JFK was shot, visited DTS, had a “work day” (and barbecue), played games, and read the Gospel accounts through Passion Week.  \"ushpizin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We also watched Ushpizin<\/a>.  It’s possible that you have never heard of this because it is an Israeli movie (and in Hebrew).  But I checked at two Blockbusters and they both had it available for rent, which means that somebody is watching it.  The story is about a religious couple in Jerusalem who is celebrating Sukkot (Tabernacles) when a couple of guests (ushpizin<\/em>) show up.  I liked the movie because 1) it is so very Israeli; 2) it has so much Jewish culture, especially if you know a little about Sukkot; 3) the characters are interesting; 4) the storyline is not the same old Hollywood storyline; 5) it covered the range of emotions; 6) it was good to hear Hebrew again.   <\/p>\n

If you’ve been to IBEX for a semester, you’ll enjoy it.  If you’ve been in the fall semester, you’ll like it even more (if you forgot what a pitam<\/em> is, read this<\/a>).  Even if these don’t apply, you might like watching something different than standard Hollywood fare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like I’m not going to say much about Spring Break, given that some time has passed and I really need to spend a lot more time with my friend Jehu.  I’ll say simply that it was probably my best Spring Break when I didn’t leave home.  Admittedly, it feels weird to call wherever\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-israel","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}