Month: October 2007

Well, it isn’t exactly tomorrow, but Elie has a younger brother who is 17. When I first started this, I thought that I would write […]

Sometimes people say they have a lump in their throat to indicate fear or nerves. Well, it isn’t a lump, exactly, and it isn’t in […]

Although Elie still doesn’t know where he will go when his unit separates, he told me recently that they expected to return north briefly for […]

So, I’m sitting in the WordCamp Israel Blogging Conference learning more about blogs…and to get here, I passed through the checkpoint where Elie is stationed. […]

In a little over a week, Elie will have completed his first major milestone in the regular army. He’s finished basic training, finished a large […]

The floor of Elie’s room has always been something of a mystery to me. It’s there – it has to be, and yet more often […]

This article shows that justice was not served recently when an attempted assassination resulted in…freedom for those would would have killed the Prime Minister of […]

It seems that someone, somewhere, somehow, is always on strike in Israel. Some strikes last for a long time, some for a short time. Some […]

Let’s hear it for the amazing researchers at Israel’s Technion University – they have discovered some amazingly wonderful side effects of having a nice relaxing […]