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Insane Politics Due to Foreign Interference
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be continuing another few months as "interim," AKA "lame duck" Prime Minister. We're going to have a third round of Knesset elections in less than a year, and...
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Knesset Elections Ad Nauseum
I've just renamed a Facebook page/group I run "Knesset Elections Ad Nauseum." It used to be "Knesset Elections, 2019." That title worded rather efficiently even for the useless redo elections we went...
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Sa'ar versus Netanyahu Bad For Likud
I never really thought much of Gidon Saar, the wannabe running against Bibi in the Likud Primaries. I've voted in many Likud Primaries in the past, and this one is bad news.That's because it's obvious...
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Geula Cohen, Genuine Israeli Hero
Yesterday morning I woke up to the sad news that Geula Cohen, Jewish patriot, fighter for Israeli Independence and Jewish Rights in all of the Land of Israel had passed away. Age-wise few of her peers...
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Likud Primaries Tomorrow, Not Good
Generally before Likud primaries, my phone doesn't stop ringing, and the messages come in like a tsunami flooding the shores. This time, until today/tonight, nothing.A few hours ago, I even started...
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Drenched and Sick, Why Did I Vote in The Likud Primaries?
When I walked out of the house mid-morning to vote in the Likud Primaries, I thought that there was a break in the blessedly raining weather. To be safe, I wore a heavy winter coat and took an...
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Antisemitism In America, Why? Nu New?
I feel safest here in IsraelAntisemitism isn't new, not even in the USA. And it definitely predates Hitler in Germany.Antisemitism has always been around. Go back five hundred 500 plus years to the...
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PALESTINE POSTS, Book Review
PALESTINE POSTS: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL By Daniel S. Chertoff is an amazing book. Chertoff found a collection of his father's correspondence written between 1947-1949 when...
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Third Try Israeli Elections, I Vote Häagen-Dazs
Here in Israel, we've recently had two national Knesset Elections with the same unsuccessful results. The Israeli political system requires a coalition government if no political party gets a majority...
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First Blog "Carnival," Roundup of 2020, Tevet 5780
Winter in the Holyland, when a "nice day" means gentle rain, because if we don't get enough rainfall in the winter, we'll suffer dangerous drought throughout the following year and beyond.Gd willing,...
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Politics: Sometimes You Have to Hold Your Nose...
I had a talk with a neighbor at the makolet* last night about it**. We both felt that in the world of politics/compromise/deals, Otzma is useless. Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote either...
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Geula Cohen, Remembered, 30 Shloshim
Tzachi Hanegbi speaking at his mother's shloshimLast night I attended the Geula Cohen, ZaTza"L, event in the Beit ATza"G, Uri Tzvi Greenberg Center to commemorate her Shloshim, 30 days since she had...
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Trump Stepped in It, "Deal?" Bleh 🤮
I can't find the post/item from early in Donald Trump's political/presidential career in which he said that there can never be an imposed peace; the parties have to negotiate themselves. But I do...
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The More I Hear About The Trump "Deal," The Less I Like It
The rationale behind the Trump "deal" is full of stereotypes and dangerous presumptions. It treats us all, Jews, Arabs, and other "minorities" as pawns not people. It promotes/proposes two apartheid...
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A TV Show Instrumental in Changing My Life
I decided to blog about this, becauseAs I began on facebook...A gazillion years ago, before most of you were born, there was a Jewish tv show on Sunday afternoons, and I'll blog about it and then put...
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Israeli Elections Again, Really?
Rather confusing political times here in Israel. Round three of Israeli Elections is getting even less press time and interest than the "redo" a few months ago.On the whole, life is going on as usual,...
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What Did Yitro Hear? Who's Today's Yitro?
I must give this week's Women's Shabbat Class "Shiur." Somehow I had volunteered to be responsible for providing words of Torah every few months. This is to give a needed monthly break to the neighbor...
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Please pray for these children:====================================Elisheva bas Yehudis Raizl [less than one year old]====================================Sarah Frayda bas Ruchama Devorah [less than two...
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Blessed Rain on Rosh Chodesh Adar, Next Nissan
Today I found myself dovening and singing Hallel alone at Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh. Rain began before I got to our usual place, so I picked the first sheltered spot. The rain was gentle during my...
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Elections on Monday- Who's Bringing The Häagen-Dazs?
Too many Israelis are sick and tired of voting. I wonder how low voter turnout will be on Monday. This is our third round of elections in just under a year.Considering the popular "line"פעם שלישית...
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