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Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted on January 29, 2014 | Comments Off on Holocaust Memorial Day

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If these Israeli F-15 Strike Eagles in formation over the Nazis Auschwitz death camp aren’t memorial enough for you (they are for me) there’s the many more than a thousand words of today’s Times of Israel.

Via Simply Jews.

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Cuban bedtime stories

Posted on December 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Cuban bedtime stories

” A small grimace of impatience started to play across the kid’s face, but the voice didn’t stop. ‘At the end of the month he would receive a salary that was barely enough to pay the electric bill and buy a little food, so the good man had to do some bad and illegal things to survive…’

“A snort of frustration interrupted the monotone narrator. As the girl’s little hands tossed the pillow away from the bed, she shouted, ‘No, Papi! No! I want a story where the good guys win…!’”

Don’t we all.

Thanks to Simply Jews.

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Rule 5: Blake Lively

Posted on December 19, 2013 | 2 comments

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She’s lively, alright. Which do you prefer, the front or the back? I dunno. The back holds my attention the longest.

Via Simply Jews, where they’re certainly getting into the hang of this Rule 5 business.

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Rule 5: Catherine Bell

Posted on November 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Catherine Bell

With a little inspiration from Simple Jews.

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Rule 5: Pink Bikini

Posted on September 28, 2013 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Pink Bikini

Nevermind the Godzilla gag, this fetching creature is reason enough to post the photo. Pity there’s no name attached, but we can still dream.

Via Simply Jews.

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Yom Kippur, forty years ago: Lu Yehi

Posted on September 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Yom Kippur, forty years ago: Lu Yehi

Whatever it is about decadal anniversaries, they seem to affect everyone. Hence today’s commemoration of Israel’s Yom Kippur War when the Syrians, etc. attacked a few hours after sundown and into the high holy day.

It was a near thing, especially in the Golan Heights, where the relic hulks of a few destroyed Syrian and Israeli tanks remain at strategic points on the landscape as permanent reminders.

Snoopy the Goon’s preferred reminder is Lu Yehi (May it be):  “…written by our late and much beloved Naomi Shemer 40 years ago, during the war, is part of our collective inheritance and is forever associated with that war.”

Go there and listen. Here are the lyrics in English.

 

ALL WE PRAY FOR
There is still a white sail on the horizon
Opposite a heavy black cloud
All that we ask for – may it be 

And if in the evening windows
The light of the holiday candles flickers
All that we seek – may it be

May it be, may it be – Please – may it be
All that we seek – may it be.

What is the sound that I hear
The cry of the shofar and the sound of drums
All that we ask for – may it be

If only there can be heard within all this
One prayer from my lips also
All that we seek – may it be

May it be…

Within a small, shaded neighborhood
Is a small house with a red roof
All that we ask for, may it be

This is the end of summer, the end of the path
Allow them to return safely here
All that we seek, may it be

May it be…

And if suddenly, rising from the darkness
Over our heads, the light of a star shines
All that we ask for, may it be

Then grant tranquility and also grant strength
To all those we love
All that we seek, may it be

May it be…

 

 

May you have an easy fast tonight and tomorrow as you think of these things.

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Austin’s hardcore musicians

Posted on June 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Austin’s hardcore musicians

Sennacherib, not the Assyrian prince but an anonymouse commenter at Simply Jews, just happens to live up the road a ways from the rancho. He offers Austin singer Guy Clark as a refreshing break from the political.

I responded with crooner Robert Earl Keen, a sort of poor man’s Bob Dylan, whose song “The road goes on forever, and the party never ends” has become a Texas classic. Okay, that’s enough of a break. Back to Barry bashing.

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