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Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Thursday Before The Shabbat Before Pesach

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In a normal year, the last Shabbat totally chametzdik would be Shabbat HaGadol , but this year it isn't. There's no way to have a t...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Yesterday

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Yesterday Yesterday, the setting sun chased my troubles away How can one be sad, when the sky looks this way? Oh, I believe in yesterday ...
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Pesach Cleaning

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I've never been the "it takes a month" type of cleaner. I'm more the "a week's enough" sort. When we lived i...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I Didn't Know It Was Normal

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There's a certain bonding between parents whose kids have been hospitalized. I'm much better now, but for many years I needed to tal...
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Off, Again

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Yesterday, under the (was it) bemused eye of my Ministry of Education Supervisor, I confiscated a cell phone from one of my students. I pro...

Simply Beautiful

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These views would have been lost if I hadn't had my camera with me. nothing dramatic pale perfectly pale a perfection of light pure and...
Monday, April 07, 2008

The Passover Story

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Watch it here . It's all in pictures, really amazing.

Off!

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This computer is an awful " yetzer haraa, " temptation. So I'm turning it off. I've blogged everything I need to blog fo...

Pesach Blogging Has Officially Begun...

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... with Mother in Israel's Pre-Pesach edition of the Kosher Cooking Carnival !! She has done a truly delicious job. Next month, I...

Family Carnival

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...of the blogging variety. I have a post in the latest Carnival of Family Life . It has been quite a while since I contributed to it. There...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

Bursts of Color

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Some people consider it a bit, well, a bit unnecessary, that I carry my camera around every place. But if I didn't, how could I have tak...
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You Don't Have To Be Frum

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Most Jews don't keep all the mitzvot , Jewish commandments/laws. That makes it extra nice to know that Tennis players to pass on tourney...

Bright and Early With HH

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That's Havel Havelim , which I discovered has already been posted. This week the host is Jtown Underground , a blog I hadn't read be...

The Jewish-Frum Factor

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When talking real estate values/prices in New York City, how can one leave out the Jewish- Frum Factor? I just read through this three page...
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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Cancer Is Out Of The Closet

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I grew up with an aunt and an uncle unsuccessfully fighting cancer for years, and I knew about it. And there was also a second cousin about ...

Deja Vu However You Spell It

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Strange feeling this Shabbat in Shiloh. It was like I was on Bayit V'Gan Street, Jerusalem, about 28 years ago. Some of the kids looke...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

Last Full Week of Chametz Before Passover

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... and there's still too much in the pantry, freezer etc. I'll just have to give things away. I'll also serve the egg rolls I h...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

In The Spirit of Chana

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A few minutes ago, I had a phone call asking me to participate in a poll. I agreed and began listening to the questions and choosing answers...
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"Vayihi or," and then there was light

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This morning, as I was passing the den, after drinking coffee to last night's "Law & Order--Special Victims Unit," I notic...
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Don't Worry!

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Can't post, since our screen broke. It's over ten years old and we got it third hand. I'm at work now. Just keep reading and c...
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