Joan Weiner Levin: the Challenges of Making Aliya

look I am everybody just cuz you're on zoom you don't get out of your to drink minimum everybody raise your glass zoomx raise your glass they'll high him it's good to see everybody in your little boxes what's the think out of the box it's good to see you let me introduce myself I'm just gonna pause for about three seconds in case there are any men lurking in the room because that you know look and the truth is I'll tell you man if you are there lurking at us on YouTube first of all some of us are being are used to being looked at by men without our knowing but I can't guarantee that in the next five minutes I'm not gonna get so you've been warned um just want to introduce myself in case some of you have never seen me perform before my name is Joan Weiner Levin in Israel I used the Hebraic sized version of that so you can call me Joan knocking yeah I have my little headset on here like you know hi I'm Julie your time life operator would you like to order Sports Illustrated we're living in crazy times I'm just gonna talk about this for one minute we have to get it over with okay I actually like wearing the mask I go outside I have a few decorated masks I've made one that looks like a kitten I like it because that when I talked to myself nobody can hear me my kids and I have been home all day long for like months already and we've basically been living like a fraternity house we have reached college student level we go to sleep at 2:30 in the morning there's boxes of cold pizza all over my house my son I woke up the other day and I found my son passed out on the couch there were some beer bottles next to him I don't that was about I think he even had some lipstick smeared on his collar I really don't know what that was about I want y'all to know I am wearing high heels tonight because I like to perform in high heels I a four inch wide clumps which you can't see because I like them they make me feel like I am a tough chick I did a show couple months ago in Modena and I forgot to bring my shoes so I perform barefoot I had my black flats with me and I don't like to perform in black flats because my black heels say I am a tough chick my slash say I'm going to be call it the rebus ins house and I just didn't feel that was what I wanted to say but I am wearing my heels I want to say hello to New York I miss you I'm a Dahlia from New York I was from Teaneck I miss spring in America I just do I miss it my husband and I lived there for over 10 years we we had a lot of good things that happened to us we had some problems in an earlier time once I had to take my husband to Holy Name hospital which was a bit of a problem holy name of John the Baptist God Christ Hospital not not for a third-generation rabbi's kid really there was a cross on the wall I said is that your last patient they asked us to leave which was okay we ended up ended up going to Brooklyn moisés Hospital and discount Electronic Arts where if you have a double bypass go to the third for free I love spring in New York I stick my kids to the parade the Puerto Rican Day Parade we love because I wanted to teach my kids about diversity also my cleaning lady had just quit and I thought that might be a good place to find a new one I love that joke and I love doing it internationally because now people in Israel are horrified they're saying oh my god that's so racist people in America are saying wait it's important Rico part of America but there are five women logged on from Teaneck right now we're saying that's really a good idea I didn't think of that and look I know that's a racist joke I do but I don't think Jennifer Lopez is listening and also I've been to the is all Day Parade and there's a lot of Puerto Ricans that go to the Israel they parade looking for a discount electronic parts so I think it balances out I have made Ali I'm in Israel I've been here about five years with my husband my kids we love it here I have to say here's the hard part of me oh yeah it's not the it's not the peace situation or the security situation it's the damn metric system I do not get the metric system it is 37 degrees out or 39 degrees out today and I put my son and the coat to go to school and then I did the math okay I mean oh yeah and the good part about all yeah is I like kilograms okay I got on the scale half my body weight that was good okay but I didn't know like kilograms to pounds okay that's half so I thought kilometers to miles that must also be half so I would do like 120 kilometers an hour I got pulled over by the cops once guy said you know how fast you were going I think that I got it say the truth I really don't um that was a problem that was really a problem but I like that I like being able to go over a hundred I felt like a bad girl we play games when we're driving here you see a man by the side of the road and he's chuckling with his back to the road and we play a game it's called min ha or men's room you have to guess what is it that the guy was looking for that he couldn't find I have to say though again like with temperatures I never knew okay metric system of the Celsius to Fahrenheit had no idea because I went to I went to school in America I couldn't do this you know how you combine how you transfer between Celsius Fahrenheit multiply five months I don't know I don't have a PhD in math I could only do it if I have pizza I'm like telling my kids to go get a pizza and that's how I have to figure out what the temperature is it's gonna be like three-fifths of a mushroom slice today uh