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My daughter as you know has RSD/CRPS in both legs, and is in a wheelchair.  She is not , however, considering a Ketamine coma, and neither am I.  She does want to try a Ketamine infusion, but the doctors she has seen are refusing to do it.  They keep saying she needs to ‘force herself to work through the pain. Read More »

An Emerita professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at CUNY, Phyllis Chesler is an active feminist and has been extremely outspoken in her pro-Israel stance.  She has written often about the world’s obsession with and accusations against Israel, calling it an apartheid state, railing against its ‘occupation of Palesinian land’ et al. Read More »

I have been “sick” since Chanukah with my acute nasopharingitis or chronic rhinosinusitis or GERD or whatever the heck this is, having been diagnosed, re-diagnosed, and misdiagnosed by various and sundry doctors, forever!  That is why the word ‘sick’ is in quotes. Read More »

                                                    While in Israel this past summer, I bought Rabbi Trugman’s (of Ohr Chadash ) new commentary on the Torah, Orchard of Delights , recently reviewed in the Baltimore Jewish Examiner . Read More »

This is a bit crazy, posting a blog post about a live webcast, but here is it anyway: Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman is giving a shiur (Torah lesson/lecture) right now , right here: http: //www.bethereisrael.com/liveLive, learn, and expand your minds in 2012!Subscribe to Tikkun Olam: http: //feeds2.feedburner. Read More »

The way I’ve been not posting at all, this could be just the last post . There have been so many events to write about, from Israel sending aid to Nigeria to bombing targets in Sudan . Read More »

There are plenty of subjects to write about, but I have little time these days to just “sit” at the computer.  And Dr. Mike Evans agrees: don’t sit so much! Here is a beautiful presentation on how to improve our health, by not sitting (I’d better get up from the pc right about now…). Read More »

I remember a little of what it was like when I had just given birth to my first child: I was exhausted, all day and all night.  I distinctly recall attempting to sit up at night in a chair to nurse my baby, and almost dropping her–I was so tired I almost fell asleep in the chair while holding her. Read More »

It’s a big jump from posting every day (NaBloPoMo style) even when you can’t think of anything to write about, to posting once in a blue moon… Read More »

“Your classroom is just down these stairs,” the principal of Amereem Elementary School in Be’er Sheva, Israel told me. I smiled and briskly walked downstairs. The time it took me to reach the final step was well coordinated with how long it took me to translate the sign posted on the wall: ‘bomb shelter. Read More »

This is the time of year when I ruminate about my kids, grandkids and birthdays: winter and Chanukah time are special for us, and here is why: The months of November through March are of personal importance to me.  Our family birthdays are comcentrated in those months, children and grandchildren alike. Read More »

Last day of November, 2011. Unbelievable: where did the time go? (Onward, actually.).  I was just texted by my director (I teach at a preschool) that a teacher will be out tomorrow, and I am needed in the morning.  Last year I worked full-time, but this year I am semi-retired, and work half-time, in the afternoons. Read More »

Despite what some people say about Chabad, and what flaws it may have as a religious movement (nobody’s perfect), the Chabad/Lubavitch movement has done the most of all Jewish religious movements to transform Judaism all over the globe*.As Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says, if a Jew is lost, anywhere in the world, Chabad will find him. *… Read More »

We all know you shouldn’t drive while talking on the phone, or rather, you shouldn’t talk on the phone while driving (I wear my hands free bluetooth earpiece when I drive, just in case), and certainly not text, right?But what about if you’re dead Read More »

The Jerusalem Post is reporting a “mysterious explosion ” in the city of Isfahan, Iran’s third largest city, in which there is a nuclear reactor and other sites where uranium is being enriched for reactor fuel. Read More »

My D. H. saw this first on Facebook, then went to Janglo , where it was posted from. I wonder how long they practiced for this.  Choreography is exciting, and they’re really well coordinated.  Go to their website, Hora Jerusalem (I’m linking the English one), and everyone–learn to dance!! *what’s Hebrew for, “flash mob?”  It can’t be… Read More »

The shopping day after Thanksgiving has come to be known as “Black Friday,” referring to retailers getting back ‘into the black’ financially after offering huge discounts to shoppers as loss leaders, and opening their doors at 5: 00 a.m. or even earlier.  Thanksgiving, the day before Black Friday, stores were closed, as they are on Christmas. Read More »

Had a lovely dinner with friends (fourth year in a row), with all the traditional dishes: smoked turkey (in apple wood) with green beans, sweet potato and carrot side dish, stuffing, cranberry-orange sauce (my D. H. made that one), and pumpkin and pecan pies for dessert.  I’m stuffed. Read More »

…And I forgot to submit a post…again.  Lo nora (translation: nisht geferlach ).  Read it anyway, it’s got some interesting posts worth reading.  So here it is, sans my blog, at Esser Agoroth, called The Krembo Edition. (For those of you not in-the-know, this is an Israeli Krembo):   Talk about junk food… Read More »