A phrase I will not ever forget…
August 6, 2005
[This post is in honor of Georgette, pictured on the right with her grandson, Aram]
When I go home to America, there are some phrases that I will miss from my time in the Middle East, some of which include: “As you like, as you like” and “I give you good price…very good price, special discount for you my friend…” and many others.
But the one that I will never forget, that I heard uttered by my beautiful host-mother, for other a month and a half was this: “You eat??? SIT! EAT! EAT!! YOU MUST EAT!!”
And we would sit.
And we would eat. Because we wouldn’t know how to do anything but that…
We love you Georgette.
Tags: Humor, Palestine
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
August 7th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
Top 10 Ways Jews Can Retaliate Against Presbyterian Divestment in Israel
by Jake Novak
10) Begin counter-boycott of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise and Wonder Bread
9) Stop supporting all the Presbyterian comedians… oh wait, there aren’t any!
8) Wear white shoes after Labor Day
7) Stop serving watercress sandwiches at Shabbat Kiddush
6) Replace Muzak in Jewish doctor’s offices with Klezmer CD’s
5) Secretly replace all references to John Calvin in Presbyterian doctrine with “Calvin Klein”
4) Initiate hostile takeover of L.L. Bean
3) Crash the next party at the country club
2) Water down the booze in junior’s sippy cup
1) Let them do their own damn taxes!
The “Top 10″ above was published in my Jewish Week column last month (May, 2005). And I did get some hate mail for it. Of course, I shrugged it off because if anyone doesn’t see the humor in a church group that said nothing during the Holocaust deciding it can make moral pronouncements against Jews anywhere… than I don’t see where you’re going to see it. I’m no fan of moral relativisim, but if you’re going to bash another group moral activities, check your own balance sheet first.