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[dumpsterdiva]

First, I would like to introduce myself.  I live in Sydney Australia and am a social worker.  I am also a practicing orthodox Jew.  I am single and although I moved to Sydney in June, I have had a difficult time making friends here.  It is so strange.  I am friendly and meet people all the time.  However, this is the biggest city I have ever lived

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[theinnerdemons]

this sounds like a great recipe and i might try it soon. the potatoe bit intrigues me, and it is great news that they are supposed to help against drying! thank you!

i'm sorry to hear you only found hate groups - i am shocked. i hope you will soon meet some nice people! i would have you over for a coffee, but i live on the other side of the globe...

toda raba again!

[dumpsterdiva]

Thank you for your comment. The potato works well to keep challah from dying out. Since one bakes it on Friday {you can mix it up on Thursday or Thursday evening if you are busy, then refrigerate it until you are ready to bake!} the bread might go stale by Saturday when no cooking is done.

I hope you will enjoy the recipe. Trust me, it make very impressive loaves!

I thank you so much for your kind thoughts. It really is tough for me here.

May I ask if you wear a head covering? I do, although it is frowned upon at my workplace. I am a social worker and currently work for the Salvation Army in a women's homeless refuge. I try to 'tone down' my head covering by making it match my outfit, as if it were simply something that went with what I was wearing.

My grandparents raised me and neither of them were ever without a hat on. However, those were the times when hats were fashionable for both ladies and men.

[kmelion]

JOOC, if you're single, why do you cover your head?

[dumpsterdiva]

I was married once - for 5 months. I am now 49. I feel it necessary. I suppose it is a personal choice, I reckon.

:)

Cute baby. Is it yours?

[kmelion]

Ah, ok.

And yep, he's mine :) Need to update the photos though LOL

[theinnerdemons]

i sometimes wear a headcovering, but my husband doesn't like it a lot (he's christian). but i have to add that according to halakha, i'm not jewish. my father was, as was my maternal grandfather -a shoa survivor- (and not my maternal grandmother, unfortunately). i don't have a shul closeby that would accept to concert me thus creating a mixed marriage, so here i am, something, but jewish by heart

[dumpsterdiva]

I am Sephardi, but most in this country are of northern European descent.

Here is a link that my rabbi sent me. His wife found it since she was not enjoying having any old scarf tied on her head.

Browse around the site and see if something might suit you. Some are very nice and they do stay on:

http://www.headcoverings-by-devorah.com/headcoverings_polyblend_snoods.htm

I wish you well in your studies. Right now the best thing to do for your grandfather is show, by example, what your heritage means to you in your own life. That is about all you can do. He is obviously in pain, as were my grandparents when they immigrated to the United States. Their people were kicked all around the middle east until they finally settled in Turkey or in the US. It was tough for them, as it was for your grandfather. They saw many murdered or captured, only because of their faith.

We can only imagine the horror, you and I.

I wish you

[theinnerdemons]

thank you!

my grandfathers family was mostly Ashkenazi, but also a little bit of Sephardi from Algeria who moved to France before the wars. from my father's side, they are almost all Beta Israel plus Mizrahi (Egypt). you are right, we can only imagine the horrors, and already that is enough. i followed the traces left to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and felt like i was dying. but knowing their names graved in Yad VaShem gives hope. and yes, you are right in saying show, by example, what your heritage means to you in your own life - this what i'm trying to do.

here's a link i like a lot http://www.tznius.com/cgi-bin/tying.pl i most often go with the 'dutch crown'.

i wish you well, too!

[dumpsterdiva]

If you have Mizrahi, like me, in your line, then your ancestors were probably chased all over the middle east since the time of the Babylonian exile, no? Mine came out of Iraq, went to Turkey, and some to the UK. Then off to the states and around the globe. I even have a cousin whose family came through Singapore!

What a life we have had, all of us. Yet there is new understanding on why we are still a scattered people. I thank you for the link you sent. I will look at it now.

[theinnerdemons]

hmmm... i only know of ethiopia-egypt and from there to the US.

you're welcome, thank you also for your link, and the other yummy recipe!