Month: May 2009

Elie spent the holiday and weekend at his yeshiva just south of Jerusalem. They learn in this yeshiva for a year or two after high […]

In 1995 in Jerusalem, a bus exploded. It was from the # 26 line that runs through the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood – the one I […]

When we lived in America, we lived 100% of the time on the standard January – December calendar…well, almost. We celebrated Jewish holidays, of course, […]

If not, would you consider moving? Are you sure, where you are, that you can’t be hit by an Iranian missile? Much of the world […]

It all began with a pair of socks. Maybe, it would be more accurate, to say the lack of a pair of socks. Or maybe, […]

I just looked at the control panel (dashboard) of the Blogger platform on which I write these posts and it says that this is the […]

Elie told me that some time this week (and probably today) he was going to have to go to the Jordan Valley for some reason […]

On March 4th, Rupert Murdoch (Chairman and CEO, of the News Corporation) received the AJC National Human Relations Award. In honor of his receiving this […]

This past weekend, Elie was home. As I usually do, I planned to send something back with him. We began a discussion of whether he […]