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What War Zone???: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Beth Israel

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So everybody knows that American movies are translated into funny or just weird names in Hebrew (and to be fair, other languages as well, although I’ll leave it up to Chien-Ming to make fun of his people on his…

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Where Do I Find an Ulpan for English?

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Hello, my loyal readers. Sorry for the recent lack of posts. Life as an oleh chadash is busy as always and I’ve had a packed few weeks with stand-up shows and other things. A couple weeks back, I was asked to…

What War Zone: Fuzzy Math: 7 11 = 60

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Boker tov, my loyal readers-how are you? I was recently reminded that when someone greets you with “boker tov!” (good morning), one traditional answer to respond with is “boker or!” (morning light) I say “reminded”…

This is Why I Created the “Benji’s Getting Serious” Category

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We interrupt this program for me to break character for a minute. When I started this blog, it was the classic traveler’s journal for family and friends about my life, expectations, experiences, etc. It didn’t take…

“Two Egg Ro-olls and an Order of Chi-icken Fried Ri-ice”

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We’ve aaaaaaaaall seen it. The menus with the typos. The weird-ass t-shirts. For the love of G-d, I think there’s a typo in my company’s freaking NAME! (As explained in the link, I’m not going to write it out here but…