A GUIT YOUR!!!!!
I heard the shofar more than a dozen times, I couldn't forget about posting this!!

My husband met the rebbe he had given tzedaka to on Friday, today ( Read more... )

 I'm trying to find who has the most multicultural family around here, from the kids' names.

For now it's a tie between:
Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Greek
Hebrew, Yiddish, Judeo Spanish/Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Berber

I hope I"ll find even more interesting to add!

• 21:44:14: Because announcing a birth in a paper is too classic.. now people announce a pregnancy! http://tinyurl.com/2vd4pmo
• 21:44:56: After my first "French" student, my first frum student!

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Le Monde mag has three pages on my city, saying how it's the model of respect and tolerance between communities while not losing their specificities. I checked and here are all the communities (not just ethnic groups, really "networks" for various things) I could find here. So, so diverse ( Read more... )

Should I register Mati to English after-school? It's public (though paying), and 3+ yr. I could totally teach her but she doesn't show any interest in learning this with me ( Read more... )

Browsing ads on the French chassidish website taught me that for just a bit more than I pay for this 785 square feet / 73m2, I can have (way out of town, in the suburbs of an already really out of town community ( Read more... )

So my husband went and checked what I wanted, and way more! Yay husband ( Read more... )

We have found several interesting apartment ads, but the most interesting one is stunning. HUGE 103 m2 (more than 1100 square feet), balconies, loggia where we would put the pets, one guest room, living room and dining room independent, gorgeous pink tile bathroom, one second bathroom (!), etc. And it's in the big eruv, in a building with ( Read more... )

During shabbes I realized that it's basically impossible to escape that I will have to go to mikve:
-while at the in laws
-wayyyyy out of town

Ooops.
We don't really "believe" in mikve while at someone, but when you have such short cycles as me these days (BH the house is so huge they won't see us coming and going)... you have to. We also don't ( Read more... )