Category Archives: Israel

Ghostly ground

Posted on December 27, 2008 | Comments Off on Ghostly ground

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a place like Israel surrounded by all the history that’s flowed over that really quite small pocket of always-influential terrain? Treppenwitz knows, and he shows us. My own ground undoubtedly was ridden over by the Commanche and Apache, not to mention countless aboriginal hunters and gatherers. Indeed, when you think of all the people who have preceded all of us over the millennia, we’re probably all living on ghostly ground.

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Merry Chanukkah

Posted on December 23, 2008 | Comments Off on Merry Chanukkah

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Got to be the world’s largest Chanukkah menorah–atop the Azrieli (Shalom) Center in Tel Aviv.

MORE: Lighting the fourth candle on Christmas Eve, Mr. B. said "Remember the Alamo!" Mrs. Charm told him not to be disrespectful, but I had to agree. It was sort of like the Alamo. Except the Maccabees won. For a while, anyway.

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Beat me, rabbi, eight to the bar

Posted on December 23, 2008 | Comments Off on Beat me, rabbi, eight to the bar

Yes, it sounds masochistic. But it’s actually from a funny little number called Boogie Woogie Chanukkah.

Via Simply Jews.

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Solstice adieu

Posted on December 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Solstice adieu

Well, I made it past another solstice, without feeling the need for an Anglo-Saxon costume drama. Just a quiet day, despite the frigid aftermath of another overnight Blue Norther. Finishing Iron Sunrise, another good Charles Stross SF novel, and thinking of the seasonal carols of my youth, Adeste Fideles and Hark The Herald Angels Sing. Then I did the annual reading of his Maccabees book to Mr. Boy before we lit the first Hanukkah candle. For the next few days we will be singing Santa and Reindeer songs for his and Mrs. Charm’s secular celebration of Christmas.

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Posted in Genealogy, Israel, Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Weather/Climate

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The UN Interfaith Dialogue Hoax

Posted on December 12, 2008 | Comments Off on The UN Interfaith Dialogue Hoax

Apt title. More lies from the Dictator’s Club, via Eye on the UN.

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Barack atah Illinois

Posted on November 13, 2008 | Comments Off on Barack atah Illinois

Time for a little fractured Jewish prayer via Miss Celenia.

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Wisdom for Mr. Boy

Posted on November 7, 2008 | Comments Off on Wisdom for Mr. Boy

"…let your children overhear you saying complimentary things about them to other adults,"  is a bit of wisdom I’ve decided to try that comes from Treppenwitz in Israel, in an essay worth a read for the other good ideas as well.

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