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Thursday, October 09, 2014

For the very first time ever....

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My husband decorated the succah this year. He had help with the building, as son #1 came over for that part of the Succot chores.  I have be...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Shandy Tasting

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Shandy is beer with a lemon twist. I have memories of drinking some in Paris almost forty years ago, and I liked it. So when my son offered ...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

A Pair of Photos and 52 Frames

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This week's theme for 52 Frames was "Pairs." I had thought of taking a picture of a "a pair of pears," which a fe...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Not Even The Busy Holiday Season Stops The Intrepid Jewish Bloggers

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This week's edition of Havel Havelim is presented by Adventures in Aliyah Land . Thank you Tzivia for doing such a great job when you...
Sunday, October 05, 2014

Getting Ready for Succot, Thank You, G-d for Making Me a Woman!

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OK, this can be considered sexist in the "other direction." I'm very happy that succah building isn't my project at home...
Saturday, October 04, 2014

Better and Simpler than the Finest Sorbet

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I was going to say that's what I'm going to show you is better than the best ice cream, but in all honesty, if I had a choice betwee...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

Preparing for Yom Kippur, Surprise

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Yesterday while I  was at work I suddenly heard the sound of the shofar. There were no customers at the shoe store, part of Yafiz, Sha'a...
Thursday, October 02, 2014

Better a Real Roll than a Fake Bagel

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I've always loved a good bagel. I like to chew, and a good boiled first then baked bagel needs heavy chewing.  It's very hard to fi...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Holiday Cooking, No Need to Gorge on Unhealthy Food!

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In the Jewish world it's Holiday Time. We're in the midst of a three plus weeks of Jewish Holidays, from Rosh Hashannah to Simchat T...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

52 Frames "From Where I Stand" and Havel Havelim

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I don't know why I'm combining these two internet projects I'm involved with, but here goes. "From where I stand" wa...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Almost a Biblical Harry Potter, Boaz

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Available from Amazon I must admit that I haven't read the Harry Potter series, but from what I've seen of it this amazing Warri...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

The First Kosher Cooking Carnival of 5775!

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The Kosher Cooking Carnival is a monthly blog carnival about kosher food, kosher cooking, anything to do with kosher food. I started it m...
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Eruv Tavshilin, The "Facilitator" Meal

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Here's this year's Rosh Hashannah so we can cook for Shabbat on RH, Eruv Tavshilin . Eruv Tavshilin is one of those halachik J...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Reflecting on those three days away from "the world"

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Rosh Hashannah 5775 Have a healthy year fruit head The Jewish Calendar has some interesting quirks. One of them is the "three day y...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Have a Sweet, Healthy, Joyful and Successful Year 5775

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There's a custom to serve many symbolic foods on Rosh Hashannah and make up puns to use as good wishes. Some people decorate their hol...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Collaboration, 52 Frames Photo Challenge

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At first I panicked. How in the world do you collaborate in photography? Then I began to understand that the aim is to dream up some sort of...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Nothing More Photogenic than The Israel Museum!

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I spent a short time at the Israel Museum yesterday. It is my favorite place to take pictures. Yes, I think it ties with Shiloh Hakeduma, Te...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Scenes from Tefillat Chana, Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh, 5774

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As I had written on Shiloh Musings, I did go to this year's Tefillat Chana at Shiloh Hakeduma , Tel Shiloh. It was beautiful and such a...