I am a chocolate cake kind of a girl. Gooey. Fudgy. Multi-layer. Frosting-heavy. Three weeks after meeting my husband, when I was still pretty sure that he was just a (very) sexy Israeli soldier on a (very) temporary jaunt through my then home of San Francisco, he had a birthday. Always the baker and very much a flirt at the time, I offered to make him a homemade chocolate birthday cake, my specialty. With a dismissive wave of his hand, he replied that he much prefers pie,

There are pros and cons to living in a mixed community. Wait, let me back up, for those who don't know what I'm referring to. Although in the States a mixed community might mean families from different backgrounds, religions, cultures, speaking different languages - here, we are all Jews. A mixed community, in Israel, means religious Jews and secular Jews living together, with the ideal of respecting each other's right and privilege to live as one wishes, worship (or not w

An Israeli Presidential Conference virgin, I donned my blue dress and prepared for Bill Clinton's address. Shiny press pass in hand (who knew that bloggers were considered press these days?) and Mac on lap, I braced myself for inspiration and he did not disappoint. Billy wasn't the only one to impress: Tony Blair and Dan Ariely are welcome to fight over who gets to be my new boyfriend. I bet Yair Lapid (who, when he speaks in English, may as well be reading porn aloud) could