Beer Sheva 11 20, 2012
Imagine going to work today. You are rushed and the bus is full. A siren sounds and the bus stops as it is required to do. Passengers get off, and find some building, some cover in the minute or less they have. They hear the sound of the rockets comming in and the anti rockets
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You Need to Fight Israel’s Second War
For many in the media, the reporting on Israel is neither fair nor balanced (or, worse, accurate at all).
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Sandy in the East and the Sandy South
Israel and the United States have had a lot in common recently. While rockets rain down on southern Israel, torrential rain and havoc-wreaking winds have cruelly visited the eastern coast of the United States. As a victim of Hurricane Agnes in June of 1972, wherein the deluged Susquehanna River broke through its dikes and flooded
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An Evening of Solidarity & Support of Israel – 7:00PM this Sunday, Nov. 18
Young Israel of East Brunswick Israel Advocacy Committee and Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County Present An Evening of Solidarity & Support of Israel 7:00PM this Sunday, November 18, 2012 YOUNG ISRAEL OF EAST BRUNSWICK 193 Dunhams Corner Road, East Brunswick, NJ Featuring MALCOLM HOENLEIN Executive Vice-Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
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Not Your Normal Shopping Carts
I’m at the grocery store trying to buy food for Shabbat. Trying, because half the check out counters are empty. Many of the checkout people didn’t show up. Usually its packed with people, but not tonight. All of the other stores in the strip mall are closed; only Rami Levi is open. After all, war
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An 18th Birthday
Yesterday was my youngest daughter’s 18th birthday. All she had asked for was for the family to join her in watching a movie with popcorn, a simple enough celebration. My middle son works in Netivot, so he wasn’t present. We spent a fair amount of the early part of the day huddled together in our
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Aliya Under the Rockets
We knew there would be missiles, we know there will be a war with Iran, but we were not afraid.
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Shabat Challot
As usual, I was at the super picking our weekly Shabat Challot. But this was no ordinary erev Shabat. A number of people also came into the store but they were dressed not in their Shabat finery but in their Tzahal uniforms. It was clear where they were heading. Some I knew from the ‘hood,
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My Son is Israel
I just returned from Israel last week and may have been standing in the exact same spot as a rocket that struck in Sdorot. I was visiting newly arrived Ethiopian olim in their new absorption center. So many children..they were playing volleyball and practicing their hebrew. I took videos of them on my iphone and
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Entering a War Zone
My friend was en route to Israel as these events transpired. She flew into a war zone without even realizing it…
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