Today, after doing the vet volunteering, I went to the beach. It was my first visit to the beach this summer (yeah, I know, I used to live 2 blocks from it and never managed to get there this summer and now that I am miles away…). It was amazing. It was relaxing. The water was as warm as a bathtub and the waves today were pretty much “what waves. Read More »

Ema thank you for the pointer to this! The Jawa Report has this video up that the Memri organization translated and it is utterly chilling. Read More »

First and foremost of goodness that happened today was seeing my fertility specialist and getting the prescription for the ministry-approved meds. The latest test results show that I am healthier, aside from my lifelong B vitamin deficiency, than your average 20 year old and so that is a blessing. Read More »

From Arutz Sheva : Z Street, a pro-Israel non-profit corporation, filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday charging that the IRS violated the organization’s First Amendment rights. Read More »

An extremist Muslim couple has been arrested on terrorism charges and more arrests are likely as raids are being carried out in connection with the case in Canada. All police are saying is that the charges involve a homegrown terrorist plot. Read More »

Today we have a letter sent along with bullets to the synagogue that stands at the Drancy transit camp in France–a camp that interned Jews prior to shipping them off for execution at Auschwitz. The letter threatens to kill Jews. Read More »

Gotta hand it to my bro and I, we both have the absolute worst timing when it comes to all things economic. So here we are both needing to sell our houses in the U.S. at a time when housing sales have hit a 15-year low. Sales of existing homes dropped 27% in July. Read More »

Things go along in relative quiet in this region for oh, a nanosecond. Just clicked over to the news and it seems that Hezbollah and the Sunni militant groups are going at it in the center of Beirut. Rockets are being launched, buildings are on fire, and they are shooting at each other with automatic weapons. Read More »

So the fridge arrived 5 hours late and had to have its doors removed to get it past the electrics box that hangs outside my door. Read More »

It ain’t beautiful but it is definitely big. It is supposed to be delivered this morning between 10-12. The brand is Apollo (not a bad brand I think) and it has a 6 month guarantee that it works and will keep working. The total cost, including delivery came to 1200 sheks cash. Buying it was an experience. Read More »

Over the weekend and yesterday I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d hoped. If anyone has ever had an IBS attack, I tell you it is no fun. Stress, man. Makes you sick as a dog. But thankfully the student I was supposed to meet yesterday called and canceled/rescheduled for Wednesday. Read More »

As a people, we tend to lean Left. That may be changing in the U.S., however. A recent Pew Research Center poll has found that the number of Jewish Americans going Republican has significantly increased in the past two years. Read More »

My blog seems to say my comments are closed but I don’t know why or how to make them open again! Ack. Read More »

On this Rosh HaShana I am locking myself in my apartment with my cats and having no contact with anyone (ANYONE) to avoid any chance of having next year jinxed again as this past one has been. Read More »

Thanks to Larry, I found out about Midrag , a service that gives you a list of reliable plumbers/repairmen/movers/etc that have been rated by customers on quality, promptness, price, and even friendliness. The site is in both english and in hebrew so non-hebrew readers can easily find what they need. Read More »

The painters have painted and they did a fantastic and careful job. It was totally worth the 1,000 sheks I offered them to do it. They even cleaned up afterwards meticulously. They painted the walls but not the door and window frames because the apartment is old and to put tape on the wall, as you’d need to do, would pull off layers of paint. Read More »

I am so “go me” for all I got done today and now I’m like “please go, please a bit more.” Just after I did the blog post this morning, I called Ronen to apologize for not coming to help and he was like, “oh thank g-d you called, I haven’t started yet but I really need you. Read More »

I love my convenient neighbour who shares his or her internet, albeit sporadically I’m up and craving coffee. Read More »

I am moved but the whole move was a balagan with the movers arriving slightly more than two hours ahead of the scheduled 9: 30 time. Read More »

The guy who was knifing all those people in the mid-West in the U.S. was an Arab-Israeli from Ramle! Dude. And there is no way I will be packed for the movers. Absolutely none. It is 3: 30 now. I lost an hour and a half because I had to sleep. I got only 2 hours of sleep on Wed and I simply had to sleep for a bit. Now I am just going in circles. Read More »