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Lending the UN a Modicum of Moral Clarity 22 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
At a time when the UN Security Council is having difficulty forming a consensus as to whether the deliberate killing of as many as 1300 Syrian civilians - many of them children - with nerve gas, warra...
Some Unsolicited Thoughts from an Olah Vatikah on Her First Day as a non-Olah Chadasha/10 Signs Your Klita is Going Well 23 Jul 2013 | 03:36 pm
[A Guest Post by Zahava] Welcome new olim! It is with a profound and combined sense of gratitude, pride, surprise, and joy that I spent some time this morning thumbing through the pix of today’s new...
Lie down with dogs... get up with fleas 21 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
According to a news report, an 'observer' from the self-described Human Rights group 'B'Tselem' has filed a complaint about being shot in the thigh with a rubber bullet while filming a violent confron...
She hasn't lost her shine 19 Jul 2013 | 06:23 pm
I was basically useless at work yesterday. All I could think about was Ariella being bounced around the IDF processing center like a shiny silver ball in a pinball machine. I knew she could hold her o...
We dropped off our little girl today... 18 Jul 2013 | 07:42 pm
I feel like my whole life has been spent dropping Ariella off. I can still remember dropping her off at nursery school, kindergarten and grade school. We dropped her off at youth group events, at fr...
Trying to stay out of this 15 Jul 2013 | 03:31 pm
Even though I still pay taxes (and vote) in the US, since I no longer live there I should probably refrain from weighing in on current events there. However, I have to say I am non-plussed by the dem...
Ever wonder what happened to the Blue Meanies? 14 Jul 2013 | 03:57 pm
Yellow Submarine fans can rest assured that the Blue Meanies are alive and well... and living among us. I present as proof, this photo of a recent European protest surrounding the Snowden affair: .....
I love when a plan comes together! 14 Jul 2013 | 03:23 pm
A few days ago I wrote a post about a ten year old girl in Missouri who had had her toy scooter stolen... and how, upon reading about the incident, the crowd from the scooter forum I frequent had step...
The unbearable strangeness of... wanting 11 Jul 2013 | 04:13 pm
I must be wired strangely. Because I can't find a reasonable explanation for why certain things bore me to tears... while others fascinate me to the point of sleeplessness and obsession. Take, for e...
I love the smell of altruism in the morning... 10 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
I may have mentioned on one or two occasions that I frequent an online scooter forum for Vespa enthusiasts (although the forum's international membership consists of scooterists and motorcyclists of m...