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Shiloh, A Place of Great Beauty
As you know, I live in Shiloh. Some of you even know that I take walks, mostly for fitness. The other day my walking partner and I decided to change our route a bit. We took a short detour, right near...
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My Father, Sidney Spiegelman, Z"L, 3 Years
Sidney Spiegelman, Z"L, 1920-2016, United States Navy World War TwoYou could say that in my father's death he did me a favor. He passed away just a few days before Passover, just as I was about to...
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Easy Sefira Reminder
There's along running mitzvah in Jewish Life, Counting the Omer, Sefirat Haomer. We're supposed to do it from the second night of Passover until just before Shavuot, seven weeks, forty-nine days,...
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Politically "Homeless" Post Israeli Elections 2019
I've seen this term on the pages of a few facebook friends who, like me, had supported Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked's "The New Right" party. The New Right missed getting into the Knesset by a...
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Redemption, Exodus: Would You have been One of the One Fifth 1/5?
In the simplistic rendition, narrative of the Exodus from Egypt, when the Jewish "slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt" managed to flee with the help of Gd, multiple miracles, one gets the impression that all...
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Far From 120, Sad Day
We don't know Gd's plan. Birth and death are in Gd's Hands.Yesterday I joined many neighbors at a funeral, a young woman who had grown up in Shiloh. I remember when she was born, and then I followed...
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Rosh Chodesh Iyyar Next Week!
It'll be warmer Rosh Chodesh IyyarRosh Chodesh Iyyar is two days, but we'll be dovening together only once, Gd willing, on Monday, the first of Iyyar, 5779, May 6, 2019 at 8:30am, Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel...
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Holocaust Remembering Day
I usually "ignore" official Holocaust Memorial or "Remembering" events. To be honest, they make me feel rather "left out." Speakers, whether first generation survivors themselves or those my age who...
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Heroism, Gevurah גבורה Yom HaZikaron LiShoah UliGevurah
Holocaust and Heroism Memorial DaySince last night we've have the television on quite bit. Some of the stories, first person survivors have been rather amazing. They sound like fiction, but we all...
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Terror has Returned to Israel's South, Courtesy of Gazan Terrorists
life in the shelters Life on the border with Gaza - things people may not know (but should)a house hit by Gazan rocket Life on the border with Gaza - things people may not know (but should)These...
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When Terrorists are The Enemy, Pussyfooting Doesn't Help
You don't need to understand Hebrew all that well to see what's on the map. The red things represent the missiles fired by the Gazan terrorists. There are basically two targeted areas, Israel's south...
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ANGRY! Again Israel Gave in To Terror
Deja vu, been there; done that.Israel Just The FactsAgain, Israel took an easy, though terribly temporary, way out from the barrage of deadly rockets and gave the Gazan Arab terrorists another chance...
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Israel 71 Independence Day, From Sadness to Joy
Is it really only in Israel where a nation first gives thanks and honor to those who gave their lives for our country, honoring them and their families? We include not only those who died bravely in...
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Apartheid, The Basis for "Two State" Solution
Looking east from Shiloh, which has a very long and well-documented Jewish History, though people all over the world want it Judenrein, clean of Jews.Read this New Yorker interview with Michael Oren,...
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Bibi's Latest Coalition Woes
Israeli Knesset Elections 2019 still aren't officially settled. Votes may have been counted, but the lame duck government is still holding court. That's because although the results may look like an...
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Israel-Palestinian "Peace Plan" Oxymoron
It seems that Donald Trump let his son-in-law Jared Kushner talk him into a stupid, useless and inevitably dangerous policy, presenting an Israel-Palestinian "Peace Plan." The term is pure oxymoron for...
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Israel's Burning, And The Fires Could Have Been Prevented
Summer came with a bang, exploded in fiery heat. Just a few weeks ago, we had been complaining about unseasonable cold. Now the temperatures are at record highs. And to make things hotter and much more...
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Where's The Idealism in Israeli MKs?
Maybe I'm just too much a product of the idealist 1960s America. You can bookend my formative years with the most iconic line of John F Kennedy's Inaugural Address and the 1967 Six Days War.“Ask not...
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Will Bibi Pull The Rabbit Out of The Hat?
Tonight Prime Minister Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu made a short speech, and he didn't stay for questions. He didn't even turn his head in the direction of those shouting questions. He said there is still...
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Lieberman versus Likud in a Nutshell
I listened very carefully to Avigdor Lieberman's press conference. As much as don't like the man, either he's a totally amazing actor, or he revealed his real dilemma, if you listen carefully.Bibi...
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