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Thursday, November 27, 2025

Israeli Autumn, A Poem

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after the first rains every drop a gift from Gd rebirth new leaves autumn in the Holy Land Jewish Nation after two thousand year exile retur...
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Monday, November 10, 2025

Rosh Chodesh Kislev, Women's Prayers at Tel Shiloh

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Every Rosh Chodesh a group of women come to Ancient Tel Shiloh to pray where the biblical Chana prayed thousands of years ago. Chana's ...
Friday, October 31, 2025

White Rabbit Beer with Israeli-Grown Hops

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Last night I attended a fascinating and enjoyable event at which White Rabbit Beer introduced its new truly Israeli beer. Instead of import...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan is Soon

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There will be two days of Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan , the last of Tishrei and the first of Cheshvan. The women who come to Tel Shiloh to pray ...
Sunday, October 05, 2025

Tying Tzitzit for IDF Soldiers

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Group tying session led/instructed by Eli Poch One of the most unexpected but totally wonderful phenomena of the Hamas War has been the popu...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Pishers' Guide to Jerusalem #40: Don't Fear Those New Prefab WCs, Pleasantly Surprised

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Unlike my previous Pishers' Guides, the list can be found at the end of the post, not the beginning.  A couple of weeks ago I was in Je...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Most Unusual and Best Beer at "Beer in Dizengoff Center" Festival

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  A few weeks ago, I traveled to Tel Aviv with the beer tasting crew, led by our Beer Maven Doug Greener, to "Beer in Dizengoff Center...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Recycling and Bottle Deposits for Charity

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  In Israel recycling is suggestion, not required. I save bottles, glass and plastic, for the deposit money, but it's not for me. There...
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Saturday, August 30, 2025

Pet Peeve: English Grammar Mistakes #1

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  No doubt I'm a rare breed. I love grammar, and it really bothers me to hear and read grammatical mistakes. There was a time when newsp...
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Monday, August 18, 2025

Women's Rosh Chodesh Elul Prayers at Ancient Shiloh

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For those who have learned some Bible, the most well-known prayer by a woman was when Chana/Hannah prayed in Shiloh. I'm a longtime resi...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Haikus, So Much Said in 3 Lines, 17 Syllables

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I've been writing haikus every morning for years and have a facebook group where I post them. Since the war against Israel began, many o...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Hearing Aids Report #7 When Acoustics Were Bad, Learned Something New

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If you click  Hearing Aids Report #6 , you'll get the links to all the previous posts about my hearing aids. I've been wearing heari...
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Summertime Pool Time

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  One of the wonderful things about living in Shiloh is its swimming pool. The "icing on the cake" is that it's less than five...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Our Very Unique Book Club

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In all honesty, I can't remember how long we've had our Shiloh Book Club, officially called "Book Bliss," but I was involv...
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