Pardon My Interruption: Craig's Thoughts About This And That
This is what it looks like after more than 5,000 athletes with access to free food, water, and popsicles, have milled around for three hours. For some reason, we had to be in the staging area at 17:30 even though the grand entry wasn’t scheduled to start until 20:30.
The Maccabiah opened yesterday with us playing Canada. Unfortunately, we lost 7-3, but we are still very much in the mix and have no reason to hang our heads.
Today, we play Mexico and then have the official opening ceremony. We’ll march into Ramat Gan stadium with over 6,000 other athletes to the thunderous applause of more than 40,000 people. I’m excited about both events.
I saw this poster along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.
In Israel, it has become common to Photoshop a traditional Arab head covering on political opponents who are not Arabs. Here, the words are as telling as the photo.
