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If you have a friend who is expecting a child…

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

…do not give them any of the following “advice” (or variations thereof):

“You had better get some sleep now - once the baby comes you wont get any sleep”
“Trust me: take vacation before the baby comes. Because after the baby comes, you wont be going anywhere for a long time.”

As much as you may think that [...]

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True Role Models - Completed

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

The 19th and last article from the True Role Models series of article by Dov Gilor of the Jewish Press has just been published online. This series of articles gives over “stories of American Jews who came to Israel for ideological and religious reasons in the past years. The purpose of the series is to [...]

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Nullification of Chametz

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

This was adapted from something in Rav Neventzal’s new sefer “Yerushalayim B’Moadeha - Pesach” (see Page 32, Footnote 2). (I recommend it to all, along with his othet sefarim).
One step in our preparation for Pesach is to get rid of our chametz (leavened bread). We clean, scrub, vaccuum, and then throw it all away. [...]

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Shul Rabbis, Here and There

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

See this (long but) interesting post from RenReb. The topic is how synagogue rabbis (and teachers, educators, etc) should not be treated like plain employees who need to bend their collective wills to those of the people who pay the bills (board of directors, congregants, parents…btw, that rhyme was totally unintentional). Rather, once hired, the [...]

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Siyum haShots

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

One thing I definitely will not be missing in Eretz Yisrael are Kiddush Clubs:
On Saturday morning in synagogues around the world, kiddush club members celebrated the completion of a seven-and-a-half-month cycle of weekly drinking.
The celebration, called Siyum HaShots, was marked by the downing of various whiskeys, bourbons, ryes, rums and brandies until every bottle was [...]

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Bugs!!

Friday, April 1st, 2005

I have a sefer called Bedikat Mazon Kehilchata which is all about checking your food to make sure that there are no bugs. Bugs are bad. If you eat a bug, you have just transgressed 4-6 biblical commandments. Definitely Bad News for the Jews (BNFTJ). For most of my life I did not really know [...]

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