Benji Hits the Big Time
Aussie Dave | Aug 13, 2008 | 4 comments
Fellow Anglo-Israeli blogger and upcoming Jerusalem blogging conference panelist Benji Lovitt was on Israeli television discussing blogging.
You can see it all here.
While I am very impressed with Benji’s Hebrew after such a relatively short time in Israel, not to mention his composure and humor while on national television, I must admit to being surprised that I was not asked on to the program. I mean I have been cited in the mainstream media on many occasions, founded the JIB awards, and have known to be quite funny myself. If you ask me, the television station seems to have had an agenda in inviting only a secular, non right-wing blogger to speak.
Update: I’ll add this link in case you thought I was being serious.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
I must admit to being surprised that I was not asked on to the program.
Israelis can’t understand that Aussie accent.
Thanks, Aussie Dave! I can hardly remember the days before the big time. I pulled a tricep yesterday beating off the blogging babes with a stick.
See you at the conference!
They had a non-religious secular Tel Aviv type represent Jblogging??? O M G. I’ve got to talk to my blog rav, I think we have to pull the hashgacha for the conference now.
That’s it, all frum bloggers head for the door. It’s serious discrimination, I wasn’t asked to speak because I’m charedi, that’s it, I know it is.
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