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Guilt baskets - an ingenious way to feed off armchair Zionists

Saturday, March 24, 2007

There are some things in life that are constants. Some of them good, some of them not so good. Almost every chag (Jewish holiday), we are the unlucky recipients of the aforementioned Guilt Basket from a person we know in the States. If you peruse this website, the baskets contain items that can be purchased [...]

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Quite comical really….

Sunday, March 18, 2007

This evening, as we sat down as a family to eat dinner, I tried to engage my three-year-old in conversation about Pesach. Purim was such an anti-climactic experience - Eliana was crying most of the day, she didn’t quite get the concept of reciprocating when it came to Mishloach Manot - I thought it would [...]

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God is a Mob Boss

Monday, March 12, 2007

Posted by The Husband
If anyone is reading this blog then let me warn you that the following post will be heretical, heathenly, and hopefully, hilarious.
This weekend on shabbat, I was pondering the parashat hashavua and I decided that God has a lot in common with Tony Soprano. This (past) week’s parasha was parashat Ki Tisa. [...]

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Writing on the wall - Jewish school targeted in Germany

Thursday, March 1, 2007

I have never been able to understand how, after the atrocities of the Holocaust, any Jew is capable of living in Germany; yet the figures show that the Jewish presence in this country is formidable - over 200,000 Jews have made Germany their home, making it one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe.
 A few days ago, [...]

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