Life in the Galilee keeps moving at a nice, slow and steady pace. I haven’t posted in a while, so I’m going to give you a quick update. The English speaking community in our village has really grown in the past year. NBN has helped 20 or so new English speaking families move in and it is beginning to change the demographic. Read More »

Now that the the Turkel Committee has released its findings regarding the Mavi Marmarma incident, a new variation of the email scam is again finding its way to people who may be vulnerable. here’s the new format – note that it keeps improving. For your information the UK phone number this time is in Cardiff . Read More »

Last night we headed down to Caesarea for a Shweky concert in the old Roman amphitheater. We actually went because my nephew was in the choir and we wanted to see him perform. The choir did an excellent job. Shweky’s choreography has not changed very much in the past 9 years (or so) when we saw him perform in the US. It was thoroughly entertaining. Read More »

You may be aware that there are recommendations to change your email (and other) passwords following a reported heist and broadcast by Turkish hackers of tens of thousands of email addresses and passwords of Israelis which took place after the Mavi Marmara flotilla event. Read More »

It’s been a while since I’ve last posted, though I’m sure you check the blog on a daily basis to see if the inspiration has hit me again. 13 years ago today (July 7), in an Italian section of Toronto next to highway 7 at a hall called “The Royalton” I got married. Read More »

Kavei Zahav 012 has horrible customer service. I highly recommend not using them for Internet. This is the second time that I had an issue with them and each time I had to talk to a manager. The first time they promised to call me back 4 times and never did. I finally insisted on talking to a manager, which solved the problem. Read More »

Wishing my readers a tzom kal (easy fast).This week there was a notice in shul that they are looking for families to host not religious/pre-Jewish immigrant soldiers for a traditional shabbos. The Education corps has a learning course in which they teach the fundamentals of traditional (Orthodox) judaism to those who are interested. Read More »

We just came back from a multi-day chanukah excursion. Monday night we camped at the Ein gedi beach by the dead sea. It was supposed to be bitter cold, but the weather turned out to be very nice. So we had a bbq and a small bonfire and everyone had a great time.We went to ein bokek monday morning on the trail and there was a lot of water. Read More »