{"id":2977,"date":"2008-05-15T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T01:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2010-04-09T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:39:44","slug":"orit-arfa-is-tired-of-screwing-around-with-israeli-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Sabra Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orit Arfa writes this singles column for the May 15, 2008 issue (Yom Ha’atzmaut) of the Jewish Journal<\/a>. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

\nI’ve been considering giving up on Israeli men, at least the purebred Israeli men, the sabras. <\/p>\n

When I first landed in this country as a wide-eyed, optimistic Zionist, Israeli men captured my fascination — and I’ll admit —my early 20s lust. They were the "New Jews" who had cast off the spiritual and physical shackles of exile to invent a self-sufficient Jewish culture in the land Israel. Compared to their American Jewish counterparts, Israelis exuded a physical vitality and sexiness, enhanced by their years in army, where they developed hard abs and chiseled arms. <\/p>\n

But as time wore on, I discovered the layered character of my fascination with Israeli men wasn’t mutual.<\/p>\n

…Even the questions Israeli men ask me on JDate chats are matter-of-fact: What do you do? Where do you live? Who do you live with? I rarely am asked intelligent questions about my thoughts, my values, my unconventional Zionist dreams. Finally, maybe an Israeli man with whom I could discuss Israeli politics, religion, God. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orit Arfa writes this singles column for the May 15, 2008 issue (Yom Ha’atzmaut) of the Jewish Journal. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve been considering giving up on Israeli men, at least the purebred Israeli men, the sabras. When I first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[1094,7542,7532,7538,7537,2444,7539,3833,775,1232,29787,3771,7536,6630,7533,7541,7535,7540,7534,7543],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orit-arfa","tag-arfa","tag-course-dinner","tag-fellow-immigrants","tag-intelligent-questions","tag-israeli-man","tag-israeli-men","tag-israeli-politics","tag-israeli-society","tag-israeli-woman","tag-jewish-culture","tag-jewish-journal","tag-jewish-men","tag-land-of-israel","tag-manliness","tag-physical-vitality","tag-practical-course","tag-rare-mix","tag-sabras","tag-science-philosophy","tag-sexiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18056,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}