Tag Archive for 'passover'
April 17th, 2008 by elie
What makes this Passover different from all other Passovers? It’s the first one where I’m making my own seder while combining the traditions I grew up experiencing with someone else and his own traditions.
I feel like this is the type of thing we all think about and wonder as kids (ok maybe just those of [...]
April 16th, 2008 by elie
There is something so completely special - when you can look past the depressing, lonely, sad aspects - about being an olah in Israel, cooking your family’s traditional Passover recipes for your own seder with fellow olim…
My grandmother is far far away, but here I am, across the world, continuing her delicious traditions and [...]
April 15th, 2008 by elie
Had to share this email I got at work today. Bear with me, I work in the hi tech realm; therefore, I thought this was funny:
The Computer Engineer’s Haggadah
Release ISRAEL
ISRAEL running in slave mode, cannot release
Set ISRAEL;mode=master
Pharaoh already running in master mode, cannot change ISRAEL
Set Pharaoh;mode=slave
Command ignored
Load Moshe
Done
Deactivate Pharaoh
Pharaoh account hard locked;cannot be deactivated
For i=1 [...]
April 15th, 2008 by elie
Had to share this email I got at work today. Bear with me, I work in the hi tech realm; therefore, I thought this was funny:
The Computer Engineer’s Haggadah
Release ISRAEL
ISRAEL running in slave mode, cannot release
Set ISRAEL;mode=master
Pharaoh already running in master mode, cannot change ISRAEL
Set Pharaoh;mode=slave
Command ignored
Load Moshe
Done
Deactivate Pharaoh
Pharaoh account hard locked;cannot be deactivated
For i=1 [...]
April 15th, 2008 by elie
Had to share this email I got at work today. Bear with me, I work in the hi tech realm; therefore, I thought this was funny:
The Computer Engineer’s Haggadah
Release ISRAEL
ISRAEL running in slave mode, cannot release
Set ISRAEL;mode=master
Pharaoh already running in master mode, cannot change ISRAEL
Set Pharaoh;mode=slave
Command ignored
Load Moshe
Done
Deactivate Pharaoh
Pharaoh account hard locked;cannot be deactivated
For i=1 [...]
April 15th, 2008 by elie
This is sweet. My company gave us our usual Passover bonuses in the form of gifts bought via Sderot, so that Sderot vendors make some money off of the deal as opposed to vendors elsewhere.
Since the population of Sderot has been suffering for years now, and business has suffered along with it, there has been [...]
April 9th, 2008 by elie
Pessach is a week and a half a way. Obviously I’ve been leaving everything until next week, but if you’re not, good for you.
And if you’re trying to figure out what to do with all your leftover chametz - breads, pastas, crackers, snacks etc. - there’s a new idea beside selling it:
The Jerusalem YMCA’s gym, [...]
April 6th, 2008 by elie
Here’s reason #678 for aliyah: The Clalit health clinic, one of the four major health insurance programs in Israel, has a place on their website for determining if the medicines in your cabinet are kosher for passover.
You can check it out here (works better in IE). You can type the name of the medicine in [...]