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Israel Fix: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Thoughts on Yesterday's Levaya. The yeshiva went to Kfar Chabad yesterday to take part of the Holtzberg levaya (funeral). I don't think that I am capable of expressing the pain that the entire Jewish world felt at the loss of these two incredible people. What I can tell over is something unique that I experienced to put even more perspective on the incredible Jewish unity we have in this country. We asked him how he knew what was being spoken about at the levaya. If there wer...
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Israel Fix: The Real Escape from Slavery
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Thursday, February 5, 2009. The Real Escape from Slavery. 8220;It happened that when Pharaoh sent out the nation.Hashem didn't lead them near the Land of the Pilishtim because it was near. Hashem said that when they see a war they will want to return to Egypt.”(Exodus 13:17). Rashi asks what was the reason that Hashem didn't want to lead the Benai Yisrael near the land of the Pilishtim? And what does it mean “it was near? 8221; What was it near? And what was the significance of mentioning that? And that'...
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Israel Fix: October 2008
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Miscommunications, Stupid Government Laws, and I should hopefully be posting more often soon. All right basically I haven't been posting because I haven't had easy access to the internet. But not to worry Bezek is coming on Thursday to the yeshiva to install our internet so starting next week I should start posting regularly again. So I'll fill in two interesting Aliyah related stories that have happened to me in the previous week's. So yeshiva started and they needed my health...
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Israel Fix: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. The Tale of Two Lost Wallets. Yes, I know I haven't written in a while, already starting last year with spotty internet connections, and big life changes, and getting married, and just.LIFE. It took a toll on my postings (by "toll" I think I've posted like 5 times in the past year. Anyways, my wife has told me she wants me to start writing again, and now that post wedding life has settled down, and we have a solid internet connection, the time seemed right. We packed our thin...
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Israel Fix: January 2009
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Thursday, January 8, 2009. The Tax Form has Arrived! And it's all in Hebrew. Well, I returned for Yerushalayim today to an email informing me that my tax form is in my box, waiting to be filled out and returned to the office. I open up the envelope, and discover that the entire form (all 3 pages) are "Rak BeIvrit.". So what do I do? Utilize mostly from the Hebrew I learned in in Ulpan which helped me fill out about 70% of the form (I knew that darn thing was good for something! Trying to Fix the World.
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Israel Fix: July 2010
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Tisha B'Av 5770-Why are we still in Exile? There's been something I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while, and I thought that today would be an appropriate day to do so. One of the biggest highlights in my life over the past few week's was welcoming our friends the Adler's. To Israel, finally making Aliyah. I couldn't put my finger on it until today. The response was to look at the 25th Kinnah. The 25th Kinnah is about the destruction of the communities of the Rhineland-...
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Israel Fix: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008. An Update and an Only in Israel List (if you like that sort of thing.). So, and update, which will hopefully happen more often once the Yeshiva gets its internet installed, their working on drinking water right now which I think might be a little higher up on the list than internet, but it should B"H go up sometime next week. Anyways, the yeshiva! Not only was it ready the place looked absolutely incredible. The fierce protection everyone gives to children in the country.
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Israel Fix: July 2008
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Thursday, July 31, 2008. Alternative dimensions and Beit El. And even more so then the extremely narrow spaces are the speeds that they send these enormous machines through the street at. Yet they always manage to stop on a dime, and navigate through cars, other buses, and pedestrians. At the next stop we had a guy come onto the bus wearing his tallis and tifilin. Only in the country! While I was there I actually recorded a commercial for the station, I send it out when it gets played. I went back to the...
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Israel Fix: "Good Deal's" and Tishah B'Av
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Good Deal's" and Tishah B'Av. Before I start with this post, I just got an email inviting me to (I believe the first) Nefesh B’ Nefesh International Jewish Bloggers Convention. That should be fun, next Wednesday at the NBN offices in Jerusalem. So on Thursday I made my first (and probably last) big purchase for quite a while, the bike. It turned out the bike held up very well, but now that I was in Israel it was time to get a new bike. I ended up finding a bike in a small shop on...
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Israel Fix: June 2010
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Monday, June 7, 2010. The Ethnic Cleansing of "Palestine". Classic Post from 2008. Note: the following story and analysis is purely satirical (although there's probably some truth to it). I was in the library last week and noticed that there was a stand of book's about Israel in honor of Israel's 60th birthday. I wandered over and started to browse through them, noticing various books, some I've read and some I haven't. Books like O' Jerusalem, Dershowitz books, and others. Then one book caught my eye.
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