“I Am Jewish” by Andrew Lustig

by Tehillah Hessler on January 16, 2012

Sharing this beautiful “I Am Jewish” video written and performed by Andrew Lustig.

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Stop American Censorship!

by Tehillah Hessler on January 15, 2012

Please take a minute to sign this petition – especially if you want to be able to continue using Facebook & Twitter without risk of a 5 year prison sentence! This bill would make it illegal for you to copy/paste anything into your Facebook, Google+ or Twitter status, comments on a blog or news site that “might” be perceived as a copyright infringement.

For example, you see a video on YouTube – you know, the kind where someone uploaded an audio from an LP of a band from 1985 along with slideshow of photos they copied from a fan site or even worse, the lyrics!- and you post a link from YouTube to Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. According to the SOPA bill you have broken the law and can be imprisoned! [read more…]

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Israel Education: Picking Your Battles (part 2)

January 10, 2012

Continued from yesterday… Later in the day I received a call from Yisrael’s 5th grade teacher asking why he hadn’t gone on the class trip. From the permission slip that was sent home on paper (we’ve yet to receive the electronic communications we’ve been requesting for 3+ years) we determined that the 5th & 6th [...]

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Israel Education: Picking Your Battles (part 1)

January 9, 2012

Olim parents of young children sometimes feel overwhelmed by the education system in Israel. Don’t worry, this is normal because it is different like most experiences in a new society, but because it can be emotionally difficult for our children it can become very stressful. I know that I have preached in the past that [...]

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Ma’ale Adumim Jr. High Registration

January 1, 2012

Parents of children in sixth grade are invited to learn about the city’s Junior High school options at upcoming presentations on January 15th (boys) and January 23rd (girls). Boys Date: Sunday, January 15, 2012 Time: 8:30 p.m. Location: Eshkol HaPais Building ( behind the pool). Principals of  the following schools will give presentations:

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Don’t Put Your Dreams in the Hands of Others

December 25, 2011

The following is a message I received (author unknown) that should go viral in my opinion. Imagine the following scenes throughout Shmueli’s life in the thriving religious community of Goshen, Indiana… Scene 1. Little Shmeuli is 7 years old and just finished examining a big picture book of Israel and it’s holy sites. Shmueli: Mommy, [...]

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Culture Clash

December 25, 2011

Mere words can’t do justice to the refreshing and enriching experience of Jewish holidays (and life) spent in the Jewish land. Still stuck in the galut? Maybe it’s time to come home…

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Guest Post: Change in Israeli Tax Law

December 12, 2011

by Don Shrensky, CPA On December 5th, 2011, the Knesset passed the first of the Trachtenberg committee recommendations. The new law is entitled “The Bill to Change the Tax Burden”. The goal of this law is to lower the income tax for the middle classes, starting from 2012. Some components of the law are as [...]

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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Syndrome

December 9, 2011

Frustration and anger are part of the early Aliyah experience of many olim – it’s just a fact of life when one leaves behind one culture for another. Especially when one makes a physical move into a foreign culture but insists that the “new” culture change to accommodate their “old” culture. Pre-Aliyah I was all [...]

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Relief & Deliverance Come

August 29, 2011

Recall these words from Mordechai in Chapter 4, verse 14 of Megillat Esther: …relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place Yesterday was a roller-coaster, strange day in the realm of health and parnassah that caused me to experience the words of Mordechai. Health If we don’t have it, quality of life [...]

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