The last two weeks

The last two weeks in JSLUM have been really great! Instead of writing a really long post I’m going to do a top five of this week…. So be pumped

1) The foot ball team won BOTH games over the last two weeks! That’s the most the native women’s league has won in the past five year! Some highlights include: Stasha catching a football that bounced off someone’s head and making a touchdown, calling the other team mean names, getting into a fight with the other team…, and Coach Cook getting into a fight with the ref….

2) Last Shabbat was a lot of fun! Ally Turkheimer, David Helfand, Judah Kerbel, and I all went to the synagogue called shira hadasha on Friday night where we all got hosted by a family and ate REALLY good food. Highlights of that night include : not knowing any of there names, one of the guys falling asleep at the table, and a dog named Freddy (the only name we remembered). Then for Saturday morning ally Turkheimer, Brittany Markowitz, and I went to the Italian synagogue where the Oneg was SO GOOD! The synagogue itself was beautiful and the service was nice. The only downside was instead of English on one side it was Italian…. A little confusing but the experience and adventure were fun!

3) We had a women's Rosh Chodesh program last Sunday (ראש חודש‎ marks the beginning of each new month and modern Jews celebrate women on this holiday hence the womens program…). This month we all made truffles together and talked about why we are happy to be a Jewish women (I said so I can guilt people with food). MORE IMPORTANTLY! I was told that if i write i program relating Jewish Women to a Seven Layer bean dip then we would be able to make it! and Ive already written the program, so ladies get pumped!

4) Jesse Lender, Lainie Schwartz, and I went to sushi on emick and it was DELICIOUS- a little expensive but worth it for the good food. I think were going to make it a new tradition. Who knew you could get good sushi in Israel…. Anyways it was sooo good! I forgot how much I loved sushi….

5) I hurt my back last week and Ive been ignoring the pain…. Long story short I ended up going to the Dr. and getting drugs…. But then those didn’t help so I went to the ER and got a shot….. Brings a new meaning to "Thursday night shots" very long story so hope you enjoy the short story….

Moral of the Story- I should’t buy soup nuts because I already ate half the bottle in less than a 24 hour period….. The bottle serves 100

Things I forgot to mention that happened this week:

-My Beit Midrash program was another hit, i went for the free pizza and then stayed for the Torah convo (very unlike me i know). The woman I've chosen to study with name is Yonata (i think...) and shes a rabbinical student from JTS who is now living in Israel (although she hasn't eaten at fruit bar on emick and this really turns me off...). Not only does she agree with me that Israeli pizza sucks, she is really good at explaining the Torah to us.... its a lot of fun and defiantly worth going to. Each week she picks a diffent midrash to go over and talk about, the first week was ethical treatment of animals and last week was fair trading and keeping the peace between neighbors. My friend Leeann goes with me each week so its a lot of fun.

-Jesse Lender's Mom and little brother came in this week and Jarrett (the little brother) is sooooo cute! she took us all out to Cuppa Joe for dinner it was really good! ill have to go back there again!

-My Hebrew is really coming along, Ive been using it a lot in class and im doing really well... at least my teacher (Tami) is impressed.... Yolanda (alright to be honest i don't really know her name thats just what i call her) doesn't like me so much, scratch that- she doesn't like US so much.... but its a fair and even trade...

-Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I volunteered to make a thanksgiving video with my friend Sophie. We had to go around and film EVERY nativer saying something about thanksgiving... I'm now just editing it with Ian and then it should be good to go. Its really funny so i hope i can get it up here so everyone can watch it...