Horror upon discovering that the child failed to uphold the hamster’s gender identity, and sought to impose cisgender heterodominant hegemony. Hertzliya, November 3 – Controversy has shaken this middle-class suburb north of Tel Aviv since late last week when a school ...
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Feed SubscriptionDisciplinary Measures Of Ethiopian-Immigrant Parents Disproportionately Affect Ethiopian Children
The couple, who only became parents after moving to Israel, never exercised such discriminatory discipline toward their children when they still lived in Ethiopia. Mevasseret Tziyon, October 25 – Civil rights and social equality organizations condemned a local couple today ...
Read More »BREAKING: User Appears In LinkedIn Search
Anecdotal evidence suggests previous cases have occurred. Jerusalem, October 14 – A social network aimed at facilitating and tightening connections among career-minded professionals sent one of its members an e-mail alert today, informing her that someone, somewhere, had queried the ...
Read More »Local Naïf Thinks ‘After The Holidays’ Means Now
“If I call today I’ll probably be the first one to get an appointment in one of the prime time slots in that vast, empty schedule the clinic must have.” Jerusalem, October 4 – A resident of Israel’s capital city who ...
Read More »Divorcing Couple In Bitter Custody Battle Over ‘Good’ Spoons
Neither Crate & Barrel nor Fortunoff sell the patterns in question anymore. Jerusalem, September 14 – A husband and wife negotiating the terms under which they will end their marriage have managed so far to avoid acrimony regarding where the ...
Read More »COVID Test Center Looking For Experienced DMV Workers To Prevent Line From Moving
Visitors who did manage to get to the front before despairing still faced several classic hurdles of Israeli bureaucracy, including the old standby of demanding a document that none of the instructions called for. Jerusalem, August 31 – Management of ...
Read More »Virus Forgot To Check Political Affiliation Of Person It Just Infected
The virus has trouble determining its host’s politics in non-political settings. Tel Aviv, August 19 – A local pathogen confessed its chagrin today upon realizing that before invading the cells of its current host and hijacking their nucleic processes to ...
Read More »Israel Invites Gold Medalist To Throw Out Ceremonial 1st Rock At Protest
Violent demonstrations occur much more frequently in Israel than does baseball. Jerusalem, August 11 – Israeli officials have decided to take a play from the American playbook: they will leverage the country’s second-ever attainment of an Olympic gold medal to generate ...
Read More »Child With Summer Homework Almost Ready For Final Push To Avoid It
“You have to have some backup plan, some go-to technique to deflect, distract, or delay until they get sidetracked.” Jerusalem, August 2 – With July gone and less than a month remaining until school reopens, a local primary school student ...
Read More »Jerusalem Light Rail Passengers Grapple With Concept Of Let-Others-Off-Before-Boarding
Contrast this with even such untamed locations as the urban jungle of New York City, where almost by default, people waiting at a stop will form a neat line. Jerusalem, July 22 – Users of the electric trolley system in Israel’s capital ...
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