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		<title>A (First) Year in the Life of an Oleh Chadash</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/12/a-first-year-in-the-life-of-an-oleh-chadash/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/12/a-first-year-in-the-life-of-an-oleh-chadash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fish Out of Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Tis the season. For looking back and Top Ten lists, I mean. Especially this year, as we say good riddance bye to the aughts. I’ll spare you my thoughts on the decade, because you’ve probably read a jillion recaps already and plus, it doesn’t make sense for this column. Most of the decade, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 12 8 days of Xmas Hanukkah</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/12/the-12-8-days-of-xmas-hanukkah/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/12/the-12-8-days-of-xmas-hanukkah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Make this week’s column about Christmas.” That was the stern edit hammered down upon me by iGoogledIsrael’s editor, Ashley. Actually, Ashley’s British, so this sounded more like Ahem, Scott, if you would be so kind, could you please focus the next column around Christmas in Israel, right? I mean, really, Chap, it’s not a must, but you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Aliyah: uncovering the Tel Aviv gay scene</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/12/making-aliyah-uncovering-the-tel-aviv-gay-scene/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/12/making-aliyah-uncovering-the-tel-aviv-gay-scene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a New Girl in town, ladies. For the first six months since making Aliyah last March, I did not go out very much. Intensive ulpan and full-time employment made it virtually impossible. But after completing kita alef a few months ago, I’ve been making more forays into what Tel Aviv’s gay scene has to offer. Here’s a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tweetsgiving</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/tweetsgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/tweetsgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toda Raba. One of few Hebrew phrases every Hebrew-as-a-second-language person can say – even Anglo ulpan dropouts like ani. (Actually, I like to throw around Toda L’cha and Toda Lach a lot – because I trained myself to remember the different masculine and feminine forms of “Thanks to you” in Hebrew, and I like to delude myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tel Aviv: One Big Parking Lot</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/tel-aviv-one-big-parking-lot/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/tel-aviv-one-big-parking-lot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fish Out of Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That’s OK, we can walk to the curb from here.” Annie Hall fans will recognize the famous quote Woody Allen says to Diane Keaton after her awful parking job in 1977’s Best Picture. If that film were remade in Tel Aviv today, the dialogue could make sense rewritten as – ANNIE HALL: “Wow, a parking spot!” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel: a dog&#8217;s best friend</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/israel-a-dogs-best-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/israel-a-dogs-best-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I rescued a dog from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Israel, one of several animal shelters in Tel Aviv. My family always had dogs as pets, and I thought adopting my first puppy would add a dimension of fullness to my fledgling life here in Tel Aviv. The special [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The diva of Middle East weather: Israeli rain!</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/israel-a-winter-wonderland/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/11/israel-a-winter-wonderland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin’?  In the lane, slow is glistenin’. A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight. Walkin’ in a winter wonderland. WTF??? Everyone here will tell you, Israel has only two seasons: summer and winter. Summer, we all know about: Hot. Hazy. Humid. Repeat. But last Thursday morning, at the exact same moment, everyone from the Galilee to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Very taxing: dealing with the Israeli taxman!</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/very-taxing-dealing-with-the-israeli-taxman/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/very-taxing-dealing-with-the-israeli-taxman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You don’t even have to file here.” “You need to file, but you won’t pay anything, because you’re an Oleh Chadash.” “The system is set up here so that people can work &#8220;black&#8221; (tax free).” “You need to register as self-employed.” “No one cares how you are paid. They expect you to not report the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life in Israel: Go mop that floor with a squeegee&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/life-in-israel-go-mop-that-floor-with-a-squeegee/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/life-in-israel-go-mop-that-floor-with-a-squeegee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cleaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t even know if “squeegee” is the right thing to call it. Israelis might call it a magav, but I’m not sure about that. You know how the symbol for Capricorn is the body of a goat…with the torso of a man on top? Well, that’s sort of like what the magav is. It’s like a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aliyah 2 dot 0</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/aliyah-2-dot-0/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/aliyah-2-dot-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fish Out of Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I visited home for the first time since making Aliyah in March. And now I’m back. Yeah, so now what? Well, I know one thing: whatever happens next, it has to be more than before. More? More what? More varied-rich-fulfilling-new-risky-complex…for starters. I mean that’s the whole point of building a life somewhere; it has to grow. Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A man of two lands</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/a-man-of-two-lands/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/10/a-man-of-two-lands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fish Out of Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a two-week trip to the United States. Considering this was my first trip home since making Aliyah last March, it was a big deal for me.  Wait a minute – I thought Scott wasn’t calling the U.S. “home” anymore, because Israel is his home now? True, I did make a big deal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Learning Hebrew &#8211; Bye bye Kita Alef!</title>
		<link>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/09/learning-hebrew-bye-bye-kita-alef/</link>
		<comments>http://igoogledisrael.com/2009/09/learning-hebrew-bye-bye-kita-alef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School ends this week. But it’s so much more than that. For the past five months, I’ve been in Intensive Kita Alef at Ulpan Gordon in Tel Aviv. 8:15 am – 12:50 pm, Sunday through Thursday. Ulpan is intensive language school that teaches adult immigrants like me the basics of reading, writing and speaking Hebrew, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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