Having a Kitchen but not Cooking

My daughter has a neighbor. She was leaving Israel on a trip to visit us and wanted to give him some potatoes. He said,

"What do I do with these?"

My daughter said,

"Well you could cook them and eat them."

"Too difficult." said the neighbor.

Apparently one reason Israel has so many restaurants is because of people like my daughter's neighbor.

Being Proudly Secular

My daughter's blog calls being proudly secular being a heathen (see here and here). She has observed that unlike in the United States, a proudly secular Jew who is invited somewhere for the sabbath will not willingly don a skullcap.

In our house we have a drawer near the dining table and it has a dozen or so skullcaps (aka yarmulke, kipah) and whenever we invite a Jew over for a meal, if they don't have a skullcap on, they ask for one.

Apparently it is not like that in Israel. The secular Jews feel no need to conform to religious normalistic practice.

The image on the upper left is of a fictional character who was with the IDF and a commando and who wanted to be a hairdresser.