Winter

Possibility of snow has been predicted for tonight and tomorrow in Jerusalem. I'm told Jerusalem gets snow once or twice a winter; it's an inch or two, and the city shuts down: grocery stores are emptied of bread and milk, buses and taxis vanish, stores shut down across the city, schools close, horrible traffic jams ensue as outgoing roads fill with Jerusalemites fleeing the city, and Tel Avivers flocking in to see the snow.

The yeshiva kitchen staff showed their colors by hightailing it out early, leaving nothing three trays of blackened food for dinner for all the students, who will end up eating each other if it does indeed snow, because the kitchen staff will be hiding at home.

I learned recently that Victoria's Secret has a factory in Israel, in or near Jerusalem.