Today's bombing

Rose and I were sitting in our common area watching "Friends" when we heard a dull boom from outside in the distance. It's not so uncommon to hear a sound like that here; it is a city, after all. But then we started hearing sirens. Soon thereafter reports of the bombing started appearing online.

The bomb detonated across from Jerusalem's central bus station, by a bus stop that I've waited at before. 

Notably, within minutes the story was given very low priority on the New York Times website (see if you can spot it below, just over an hour after the explosion).

                                                                                             Screenshot photo / Hillel Buechler

After a fatality was sadly confirmed, the story moved up a little bit. But not by much.

Anyhow, the Rothberg International School took just over an hour to send out a mass-text message alerting us to the attack and requesting that we confirm our safety. No further instructions were given. Typical Rothberg...

Needless to say, we'll be staying in our apartment tonight (with Burgers Bar).