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You know, it’s the meme where you say what adjectives fit me.

Unfortunately my brother’s visit was cut short: he had to immediately return to Israel. I hoped he’d stay till Sunday, but alas, we don’t get to spend another Shabbat together now.
This morning my brother, my baby brother, put on his uniform, and the awkward teenager (ok, 20-year-old) suddenly became a confident grown-up with an air [...]

CNN reports Heath Ledger is found dead in NYC.
It’s only a headline, I don’t know details and need to go to bed.
Not another River Phoenix, please.

While I have been trying to focus on happier things in connection with the holiday, but I cannot ignore what’s happening in Gaza, and the Hamas still spitting threats at Israel.
The media, of course, buys the Hamas manipulation. Luckily, there are many people, who don’t. There is an excellent entry in Captain’s Quarters about the [...]

Some of you may know that us, Jews, are not satisfied with having a single New Year’s celebration: we have four of them, and then we are likely to go to a party on December 31st as well.
Tonight and tomorrow is Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees. Whatever grows after Tu Bishvat counts in [...]

Al Neharot Bavel by Aaron Razel
1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How can we sing [...]

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As every year, we did end up hosting a big party during the winter holiday season, however it wasn’t Christmas, but rather New Year’s. We had a great time: some 25 adults and 14 kids gathered, the kids taking rule of the basement, while the adults were busy partying upstairs. There was only moderate drinking, [...]

I know I am the problem here as I don’t get along with many people from my adoptive family and I am really not on good terms with most of Kevin’s family, but, for example, while his brother Spencer and I don’t get along all that well we have mutual respect and we know where [...]