Lurking in Liverpool(UK) but will in TA for Purim with my daughter Danielle in 12 hours! She pointed me to your blog and said I should read you. She has met you in Jerusalem through mutual friends and hadn't realised you had a 'story' to tell.
Hi Gila, I'm from Haifa as you may have noticed from my "things flying through the air" comment.
You may want to add an analysis add-on that gives oyu information about who is visiting. Since you are using Blogger which is from the google bundle you may as well use Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics/home/ You can also see how people get to you blah, blah, blah If you need help setting it up I will happily help you.
Hod Hasharon, Israel (originally from Houston, Texas). You can also register your blog on sitemeter.com - they give all kinds of stats. I have my blog registered there - very cool. (I read you through my RSS reader too !)
Hi Gila, my name is Jany and i'm reading your blog from Switzerland ( near Geneva ). I don't remember excatly how i found your blog, but there's a high chance that it was via Treppenwitz. Thank you for writing. Purim Sameach
I recently added you to my rss reader. Spent some time really reading through your intro posts today. I am from Central Wisconsin in the USA. I visited Israel in 2000 and loved it! I pray that HaShem will bless you. Purim Sameach.
New Zealand and read you in Israel too. I came to you via Yaeli, who I am totally addicted to, and met in TA in January. Hope I will have that privilege with you one day. Keep up the great work!
Hey, I didn't add my name to the list because I thought by lurking, you meant anonymous people who read but don't comment. Ah well.
I live in Modiin, as you may already know, and I'd love to meet you! Maybe we can have a party when some of the other lurkers come visit in the summer.
avid lurker in beirut, lebanon. gila, you are amazing!! i'm sure this has occurred to you already, but there is a thoughtful, inspirational and deeply witty book waiting to be compiled from these posts...
I can't remember where I found you ... maybe through Isreality? Thanks for sharing (and continuing to share) your story! I am surrounded by wheat fields and rural, small town life. Your blog makes real to me what is happening in a part of the world I know only through books and the news.
I wasn't going to blow my cover, but I can't believe out of 47 comments, I'm only the second from New York (I'm not counting Brooklyn, but even 3rd is incredible)
Not an official lurker since I've commented a couple times, but just for the record: I live in suburban New York, and I found you via Bad4Shidduchim. Enjoy your writing. Go, Gila! Fellow readers: boy, you're a really cool, diverse bunch. And yes, I also read Treppenwitz.
I am from South Africa, found you on BlogCarnival planning to visit Israel one of these days as I am very interested in your history and people. I am not Jewish but like to learn more about your feasts and festivals
Madelyn, previously lurking in New York. I moved to a moshav near Ashkelon with my husband(who grew up on said moshav) and my children 14 years ago. Actually, I've been wanting to tell you how much I have enjoyed your blog. Your writing is wonderful. I was blown away about your explanation for coming to live in Israel, as you took everything I felt since I first came to Israel on a year course here in 1978, and put it into words. It was as if you had read my thoughts and feelings. I think that you are amazing. Keep up the great work.
Hi Gila, I'm 26, female, I live in California, Catholic by birth now converting to Judaism. I've been reading you for a few months now. Thank you for all the effort you have put into this!
I just want to point out that contrary to Yedida's post (#80 I think) NO ONE is "born Catholic" or "Catholic by birth" - your parents might have had you baptised as a wee baby and they may have raised you Catholic - you may even have chosen to be confirmed a Catholic when you reached the age of maturity, but you weren't "born" one in as much as you cannot be "born" a Democrat, a graphic designer, nor a skilled knitter.
57 y/o male Christian in Brookline, MA, USA. You were talking about reading Telushkin’s Biblical Literacy and I did a search on him and found you instead. Your toyveling entry hooked me...
I'm annie and I'm in Petach Tikva. I think I got to you via Treppenwitz, or perhaps via Discarded Lies. I love your blog, I admire your courage and your humour in the face of adversity is simply astounding.
Eric Ferguson III (TSGT USAF Ret.)Merritt Island,FL. 55, reformed and scar tissue doesn't scare me. I've got a belly full of it my self. Though I don't have as interesting a story. Found you through the Sandmonkey. echofox3.blogspot.com New recipes every Tues. The rest of the time crap.
am originally from North Dakota, but was relocated to Crown heights as part of the witness protection program's 'deeeeeeep cover' project, after spending 6 months learning to emulate a Brooklyn accent :-)
this is one of the most *REAL* blogs in all of cyberspace
am originally from North Dakota, but was relocated to Crown heights as part of the witness protection program's 'deeeeeeep cover' project, after spending 6 months learning to emulate a Brooklyn accent :-)
this is one of the most *REAL* blogs in all of cyberspace
not a lurker but didnt want to be left out. and am enjoying seeing the numbers rise. thanks again for a funny, thoughtful, light but deep blog. faith/emuna on a moutaintop in the shomron.
Big fan of your writing Gila. Your turn of phrase, your eye for the poetics of sadness, your wit. Whether it's about your experience following the pigua or nearly anything else in life, your writing illuminates a world for those of us not lucky enough to know you in person.
I'm lurking from Philadelphia, though I got hooked on your blog when I was living in Jerusalem and had a (financially) unhealthy obsession with Mahane Yehuda.
Heard about you through a mutual friend "CK", the grand poobah at Jewlicious.
Vedaal, ik vindt Duits een mooie taal voor gedichten, heel sierlijke woorden. Ik ben ook niet zo groot dus vond ik Kleine Maus (kleine muis?, klinkt toch voor geen meter!) wel een aardig benaming voor zo'n kleintje als mij. Vandaar.
I know this is over a week after you posted this question, but I just wanted to tell you that I am lurking from Chashmonaim (near Modiin) and I really enjoy your blog, although "enjoy" doesn't seem quite the right word to use. But thanks for sharing your stories with us.
Gila, I found you through Ace of Spades HQ today and have already bookmarked you to be a daily read. I love your vulnerability and your honesty and in just the few minutes I've been reading you've brought me to tears. May the great G_D of whose Chosen People you are part bless you and heal you. You're in my prayers.
I found you when you had just started up your blog and I haven't missed a post ever since. Thanks a lot for your writing and col tuv from Aachen, Germany
117 comments:
Risa, Rehovot, Israel
I'm 33 y/o Italian-American male from Chicago. Christian (no denomination)
I did visit Israel in 1998 for 15 days and loved it.
Melbourne, Australia.
Lurking in Liverpool(UK) but will in TA for Purim with my daughter Danielle in 12 hours! She pointed me to your blog and said I should read you. She has met you in Jerusalem through mutual friends and hadn't realised you had a 'story' to tell.
Eliya, Palo Alto, California
thanks for the blog, gila, thanks for writing.
17tamuz.blogspot.com - if you want to lurk somewhere
Purim Sameach, have the best Purim of your life
Jerusalem, Israel, great blog, you write beautifuly.
jerusalem
enjoy yr writing style!
Hi Gila. I read your blog through my RSS reader. I'm Fern, I live in Southern California.
Hi Gila,
I'm from Haifa as you may have noticed from my "things flying through the air" comment.
You may want to add an analysis add-on that gives oyu information about who is visiting.
Since you are using Blogger which is from the google bundle you may as well use Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics/home/
You can also see how people get to you blah, blah, blah
If you need help setting it up I will happily help you.
I lurk from Bet Shemesh and Ramat Gan in Israel...
Meitar, Israel
Hod Hasharon, Israel (originally from Houston, Texas). You can also register your blog on sitemeter.com - they give all kinds of stats. I have my blog registered there - very cool. (I read you through my RSS reader too !)
Hi Gila,
my name is Jany and i'm reading your blog from Switzerland ( near Geneva ). I don't remember excatly how i found your blog, but there's a high chance that it was via Treppenwitz.
Thank you for writing.
Purim Sameach
A lurking Jersey girl here! (New Jersey, USA - that is :))
Jerusalem, Israel
Hi Gila! I'm Naomi from Utrecht, Holland. I came here through Treppenwitz.
I'm from no place in particular - the USA, i guess. Currently i am living in the Mid-West.
Thanks for writing.
Not exactly a lurker - but I just found you so I haven't commented yet. I'm in the Southern United States.
I recently added you to my rss reader. Spent some time really reading through your intro posts today. I am from Central Wisconsin in the USA. I visited Israel in 2000 and loved it! I pray that HaShem will bless you. Purim Sameach.
I found your blog about a week ago and promptly added it to my netvibes. I'm in California and haven't visited Israel [yet].
Maalot, Israel
Chag sameach Gila! Currently in San Jose California.
Singaporean, studying in New York, plotting escape to Israel upon graduation.
May I be the nth person to say that you are awesome.
NEW YORK!!
Hendersonville TN USA
Lurking in Seattle, Washington. :-)
New Jeresy, US
though soon to be lurking from Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel
From Austin, Texas. Lived in Israel last year, miss it like crazy!
Raul Castro, Havanna in the Sunshine State Cuba.
Hi Gila! From Anchorage, Alaska.
Wow you have a lot of lurkers Gila!
I think I told you that we live in Miami...we are really looking forward to meeting you in Tel Aviv this summer!
Chag Purim Sameach.
22-year-old second-year law student, Brooklyn, NY (U.S.)
Have added this blog to my blogroll for a while, but I usually take my time to look around before coming out. : )
Great job!
Olah Chadasha in Kfar Saba.
I love your blog!
New Zealand and read you in Israel too. I came to you via Yaeli, who I am totally addicted to, and met in TA in January. Hope I will have that privilege with you one day. Keep up the great work!
Hey, I didn't add my name to the list because I thought by lurking, you meant anonymous people who read but don't comment. Ah well.
I live in Modiin, as you may already know, and I'd love to meet you! Maybe we can have a party when some of the other lurkers come visit in the summer.
Alaska is the place.
I came here through Treppenwitz.
Craig
avid lurker in beirut, lebanon. gila, you are amazing!! i'm sure this has occurred to you already, but there is a thoughtful, inspirational and deeply witty book waiting to be compiled from these posts...
Chicago, IL...keep writing!
Karen, Cape Town, South Africa.
Pomeroy, WA
I can't remember where I found you ... maybe through Isreality? Thanks for sharing (and continuing to share) your story! I am surrounded by wheat fields and rural, small town life. Your blog makes real to me what is happening in a part of the world I know only through books and the news.
I'm from the Southern US, also, and I found you through jewlicious :)
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Los Angeles, the capital of California.
Found you through Seraphic Secret.
Chicago, IL.
Single, 31, jew by choice.
Found you via Jewlicious and sent you on to Seraphic Secret and Queen of the Oddballs.
Read you via personalized Google home page.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Found you via Discarded Lies.
Phoenix, AZ...hopefully soon to be in Israel
And I think I found you through Jewlicious.
Evanston, Ill, Found you through Trepenwitz. Keep writing
I wasn't going to blow my cover, but I can't believe out of 47 comments, I'm only the second from New York (I'm not counting Brooklyn, but even 3rd is incredible)
Texan in Daegu, Korea; Anglican Catholic who supports Zionism; came here on recommendation from Treppenwitz.
Not an official lurker since I've commented a couple times, but just for the record: I live in suburban New York, and I found you via Bad4Shidduchim. Enjoy your writing. Go, Gila! Fellow readers: boy, you're a really cool, diverse bunch. And yes, I also read Treppenwitz.
I only found you recently but I've been reading nearly every day since then.
Manchester, England (although my fiance is from South Carolina and I want to emigrate to the US one day).
Religion - Christian (I'm non-denonimational, too).
Take care,
XX
Rob
Very cool!
I'm not a lurker, but I'll add my name to the list anyway!
RivkA from Homat Shmuel, Jerusalem.
Hi Gila,
I'm in Kfar Saba. I followed a link to your blog from one of the many blogs I read, but I don't remember which one :-(
I'm from London in the UK, and i am sort of playing catch-up, reading your archive, and it is truly a wonderful, if at times heart-breaking read!
Keep up the good work and Purim sameach!
Mitch, Hollywood, FL (midway between Ft. Lauderdale and Miami). I'm a friend of Gabrielle's; she said your writing reminded her of me, or vice-versa.
Great blog!
NY, NY, formerly Austin, TX. (Shout out to Austin!) I found you thru Leah from Chicago when she posted your first post on Facebook.
Hey Gila,
I'm Cleia, lurking from Brazil. I think I got here from a reference in Baila's blog.
Seattle, Washington, USA.
No relation to Deborah. ;-)
Thank you for your blog. I'm in Des Moines, IA.
Texan in Daegu, Korea; Anglican Catholic who supports Zionism; came here on a recommendation from Treppenwitz.
antares
New York, via Treppenwitz.
Sunny Los Angeles.
Lurking from the Jerusalem area. I cyber-know you from Tachlis.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Philadelphia native, currently living in Madison, Wisconsin.
You have a great blog.
Efrat, Israel. Found you through Treppenwitz. Great blog you've got!
Um, I am claudius, I mean treppenwitz... and I live in Efrat but came here via my wife.
Uh, is it too late to change that to 'I am Spartacus'? ;-)
I'm not a lurker, but I am in El Cerrito, CA, USA. Near San Francisco, which is where I am actually FROM.
Blimey Gila! That's a lot of lurkers! I don't think I count as one, but if you want to, you know where I am :)
I am from South Africa, found you on BlogCarnival planning to visit Israel one of these days as I am very interested in your history and people. I am not Jewish but like to learn more about your feasts and festivals
Ra'anana. Found your blog thru Technogeek Diaries.
Well, since you asked...lurking from the Boston area...found you via Claudius/Spartacus (so, Zahava sent me)
Debbie
Planet MeepZorp, 3rd quadrant of the Z-Mu galaxy.
We MeepZorpians are studying Earthlings, curious as we are why some are very mean, and some nice. Gila, are you the leader of the nice people?
I'm Ilana from Boston, MA! I'm studying in Be'er Sheva for the semester. Got here via treppenwitz.
Madelyn, previously lurking in New York. I moved to a moshav near Ashkelon with my husband(who grew up on said moshav) and my children 14 years ago. Actually, I've been wanting to tell you how much I have enjoyed your blog. Your writing is wonderful. I was blown away about your explanation for coming to live in Israel, as you took everything I felt since I first came to Israel on a year course here in 1978, and put it into words. It was as if you had read my thoughts and feelings. I think that you are amazing. Keep up the great work.
jlem.
via t-witz
You're officially world famous.
Lurk, Lurk, Lurk!
Jerusalem and the Shomron.
(what a great post...now I know where all these people are from! I should have done something like that ages ago :)
Shushan Purim Sameach!
Wow---this is very, very cool! Thanks to everyone who is checking in.
For all of my lurkers (and non-lurkers)--you have a friend in TA...and I have a kosher kitchen and good coffee, if you are ever in town.
Pretty incredible to think that I have this many readers after what, two months? :)
Gila
Hi Gila, I'm 26, female, I live in California, Catholic by birth now converting to Judaism. I've been reading you for a few months now. Thank you for all the effort you have put into this!
Jerusalem. from Jewlicious, I think.
I just want to point out that contrary to Yedida's post (#80 I think) NO ONE is "born Catholic" or "Catholic by birth" - your parents might have had you baptised as a wee baby and they may have raised you Catholic - you may even have chosen to be confirmed a Catholic when you reached the age of maturity, but you weren't "born" one in as much as you cannot be "born" a Democrat, a graphic designer, nor a skilled knitter.
Nonlurker and poster #82 :-)
57 y/o male Christian in Brookline, MA, USA.
You were talking about reading Telushkin’s Biblical Literacy and I did a search on him and found you instead. Your toyveling entry hooked me...
-Steve
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
I love your blog!
Lurking in New Mexico. I love your blog & I love your spirit.
Lurking in Brooklyn. Sent via Treppenwitz. Your writing is amazing, especially for an accountant :)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Planned to just glance at your blog, and ended up reading the whole thing--now I'm a dedicated lurker. You really are a wonderful writer!
Houston, Texas, USA. First found you via link on local political blog www.Lonestartimes.com.
The offer sounds interesting Gila, but what about cigars and rum?
I'm annie and I'm in Petach Tikva. I think I got to you via Treppenwitz, or perhaps via Discarded Lies. I love your blog, I admire your courage and your humour in the face of adversity is simply astounding.
Eric Ferguson III (TSGT USAF Ret.)Merritt Island,FL. 55, reformed and scar tissue doesn't scare me. I've got a belly full of it my self. Though I don't have as interesting a story. Found you through the Sandmonkey. echofox3.blogspot.com New recipes every Tues. The rest of the time crap.
Monica, 27. Asuncion, Paraguay.
Lurker from Copenhagen, Denmark, sometimes also from Warsaw, Poland. As far as I can remember, I got here from the Muqata.
Great blog! :)
got here from Seraphic Secret,
am originally from North Dakota, but was relocated to Crown heights as part of the witness protection program's 'deeeeeeep cover' project,
after spending 6 months learning to emulate a Brooklyn accent :-)
this is one of the most *REAL* blogs in all of cyberspace
got here from Seraphic Secret,
am originally from North Dakota, but was relocated to Crown heights as part of the witness protection program's 'deeeeeeep cover' project,
after spending 6 months learning to emulate a Brooklyn accent :-)
this is one of the most *REAL* blogs in all of cyberspace
woodmere, ny, via either david bogner or jameel, I forget.
not a lurker but didnt want to be left out. and am enjoying seeing the numbers rise. thanks again for a funny, thoughtful, light but deep blog. faith/emuna on a moutaintop in the shomron.
Lurking in New Orleans, Louisiana
Big fan of your writing Gila. Your turn of phrase, your eye for the poetics of sadness, your wit. Whether it's about your experience following the pigua or nearly anything else in life, your writing illuminates a world for those of us not lucky enough to know you in person.
I'm lurking from Philadelphia, though I got hooked on your blog when I was living in Jerusalem and had a (financially) unhealthy obsession with Mahane Yehuda.
Heard about you through a mutual friend "CK", the grand poobah at Jewlicious.
Be well and keep writing!!!
Atlanta, GA through Treppenwitz
Kleine Maus, Ternaard, Netherlands.
Hannover, Germany
"[ kleine Maus said...
Kleine Maus, Ternaard, Netherlands. ]
vaarom schreef je niet in het Nederlands maar wel alleen in Duits ?
(please excuse my North Dakotan Dutch dialect and spelling, ;-)
reeds twintig jaren en geen woord Nederlands gesproken ;-) )
Vedaal, ik vindt Duits een mooie taal voor gedichten, heel sierlijke woorden.
Ik ben ook niet zo groot dus vond ik
Kleine Maus (kleine muis?, klinkt toch voor geen meter!) wel een aardig benaming voor zo'n kleintje als mij.
Vandaar.
Aan de aardige deftige Mejeuffrouw KM
"[ kleintje als mij ]"
maar met erg groote gedichten ;-)
24 year old, Christian, Ohio, United States
I know this is over a week after you posted this question, but I just wanted to tell you that I am lurking from Chashmonaim (near Modiin) and I really enjoy your blog, although "enjoy" doesn't seem quite the right word to use. But thanks for sharing your stories with us.
Thornton, Colorado. Just north of Denver.
Akron, Ohio, USA
Aimee, Chicago, USA.
Gila, I found you through Ace of Spades HQ today and have already bookmarked you to be a daily read. I love your vulnerability and your honesty and in just the few minutes I've been reading you've brought me to tears. May the great G_D of whose Chosen People you are part bless you and heal you. You're in my prayers.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania via Ace of Spades
Bob from Houston Texas.
I found you when you had just started up your blog and I haven't missed a post ever since. Thanks a lot for your writing and col tuv from Aachen, Germany
Katy, TX
Hi I am from South Africa
Zahava, 21, Brisbane Australia
Tali - Toronto, Canada
Wish is was:
Tali, Tel Aviv
But alas, the "we" unit can think differently, but for some things has to behave the same.
Just found your blog - LOVE your writing.
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