Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

It is difficult to find high culture in Israel. The museum that houses a little bit of art is open around 20 hours a week, and is impossible to get to. As for classical music, you were thinking Heifetz, Rubinstein, and Bernstein, a country full of Jews will produce many more of them. No. Those were Jews raised in European societies (I'm including Boston of two generations ago in that). Jews are good at taking whatever gentiles do to the next level. So Israel is in the Middle-east. There, we take humas, shouting, religious extremism, torture, and destruction of enemies to the next level, not classical music. When I was a kid, the news made such a big deal out of the ISO (Israeli Symphony Orchestra) playing Wagner that you'd think that the ISO was a big deal. But is wasn't. Certainly it isn't now. Maybe when there were European born people here it mattered a bit, but not now. The reason Wagner made news was mostly because it was a topic of outrage which is still the natio...

Doesn't that sound wonderful, after all it has the word Jerusalem in it?  Actually, it's terrible, this city covered in beige. You can lose your mind from the blandness of it all. Beit Shemesh also has a rule, all buildings must be in Jerusalem stone. Everything the same, the same color. That's some democracy. Every building must conform to a government mandate not for safety but for color.  You look out on the city and just feel boredom. It has the aura of Soviet housing.  I'm told that Chabad built a few 770 replicas in Jerusalem and has to pay a million shekels a year in fines. I can't confirm but it wouldn't surprise me. Nothing surprises me here except the rare act of common sense.  Compare to Greenland And Ireland And Paris