Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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seasonal message
to any americans (or non-israelis) that are vehemently opposed to the disengagement of gush katif and shomron (including americans who are vehemently opposed or pro a lot of things in israel to the point of constant criticism and verbal attacks and extremism, and there are more than you think, i know many myself and they…
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israeli pessach seder madness!!!
i’ve found the crazy sephardi israeli family i’ve been dreaming of.introduction: my mother’s cousin’s daughter (my second cousin) made aliyah 20 years ago and married a yemenite/turkish sabra and had 4 kids in mitzpe netufah up north.for pessach, his entire family and their kids came. and me. overwhelming? yes. comic? yes. patriotic? no choice but…
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on diversity.
a pesach seder in a room filled with people from all over the world singing the words to ‘oseh shalom’ in the same tune, in the same language. 80 voices asking ‘ma nishtana’ in hebrew. i’m sitting with one arm wrapped around the shoulders of a russian girl, and one arm wrapped around the shoulders…
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collateral damage.
i’m learning the casualties of living far from everything that has become everything ‘else’ – tragedies, celebrations get left behind, lack of understanding/expression. it’s frustrating. just have to keep looking ahead. i chose to move away from these people, and consequentially, their ‘stuff’. it’s going to get more difficult with time, since i can’t fly…
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dealing in Holocaust.
here, it’s a different air.
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coming up.
tzafon (tveria/kinneret) action for the weekend, darom (eilat) action next week.crazy little country with tiny measurements and insta-getaways.
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do what am i gonna do.
so tonight i was doing a lot of figuring out what i’m going to do. here’s some stuff i came up with: – come back to the states mid-june– go back when ulpan starts for bar ilan, which is prob beginning to mid-august– if i dont want to go through ulpan again, volunteer on kibbutz…
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snooze.
wake up, wake up crazy girlie and remember where you were two years ago and how you got here today, remember!
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ta'anit esther.
Mothers, sisters, daughters of Israel! WAKE UP!We are ‘liberated’ in today’s society – so why aren’t we working? Don’t slack off when it comes to working for Bnei Yisroel!Don’t forget your roles in saving the Jews from the evils of the world and saving the Jews from themselves! Remember your power. Sons look to their…
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alert.
round and round we go, round the metal wheel inside the metal cage, like dumb mice that dont learn, u can run around the wheel and make yourself crazy but youll never get anywhere but where you started.
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with love.
“or you could just be plain.” great words of wisdom from dad, with love. “you could do what you said you set out to do, or you could just be plain.” and since when is raising three kids plain, huh? you did it. or is your life too boring for you? is that why you’re…
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Israeli (5) – 2005.
Israeli. And then, he was back. We met for drinks to catch up and somehow, amid the silence of catching up, we sensed where each of us had been in the past two years. “You didn’t think I was going to come b’aliyah, did you?” I said it with my best defense mechanism smirk. “Well……
Questions? Comments? Advice?