It's...been quite a week. On Shabbat the abandoned newborn kitten I had been trying to take care of (dumped on my by my roommate who had initially wanted to be its mother and then went on vacation) died. I knew that since it was newborn and the diluted milk I'd been giving it didn't have the right nutrients, the kitten would most likely die, but ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention this for two weeks...not everyone grows up near military bases or spends a whole lot of time around planes. Here at Sde Eliyahu, you can hear live weapons being tested nearby as part of the soldiers' training. It sounds like thunder, and if it's been quiet for a few days it will catch you off guard. There are also airplanes and ( Read more... )

One of the things I find fun about foreign language classes populated primarily by English-speakers is how everyone, no matter how many other languages they may be familiar with, will screw up the gender of nouns and, more importantly in Hebrew, the gender of verbs (which German and Latin, the other two languages I've studied, do not have). So we' ( Read more... )