Until September 2007, when my oldest daughter was born, this blog covered daily life and politics in Israel, as well as Hebrew-English linguistic issues, from the perspective of an American-raised journalist and translator living in Israel. Now it mostly serves as the SmunchMonk&Bear news agency, a portal into the bizarre universe of the little people. Read more at: www.shoshanakordova.com.
Yup, "oy va voy" is one of Rimonit's newest phrases, replete with finger-wagging - but only when she hears the song "Yonatan Hakatan." They obviously do it at gan when they get to the "oy va voy lo lashovav" part. It's a very funny sight.
posted by Shoshana Kordova @ 8:03 PM
Until September 2007, when my oldest daughter was born, this blog covered daily life and politics in Israel, as well as Hebrew-English linguistic issues, from the perspective of an American-raised journalist and translator living in Israel. Now it mostly serves as the SmunchMonk&Bear news agency, a portal into the bizarre universe of the little people. Read more at: www.shoshanakordova.com.
The 90th minute ('hadaka hatishim' in Hebrew) is the soccer-derived equivalent of the 11th hour - the moment of time I seem to perpetually inhabit.
The 90th minute was a finalist in the 2007 Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards, in the Best New Blog and Best Personal Blog categories.
2 Comments:
This is how I discovered that Jonathan had a good ear for music (some 14 years ago): I whistled Yonatan Hakatan, and he wagged his finger at the exact right note (the oy-va-avoy one, obviously).
Love the name Rimonit, BTW:-)
uh oh- mine starts in a bit early- hope that's just a sign of overzealousness and not a sign she inherited her mother's tone-deafness!
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