• 13:36:03: Wrote my and husband's letters for the animal care degree!
• 14:15:35: what's this trend for the children of a Jewish man and a non Jewish woman to reject their father's surname :(
• 20:49:30: mati can read the time! scary!
• 20:50:08: I may finally have a new frum neighbour, after the 3 families are going away! please G-d!
• 20:54:22: 11 Sept has ( Read more... )

I don't know how much Google can give you in English, so here is:

Bankrupted noble Frenchman Havet "Havon" de Divion, from one of the highest ranking families of his area, marries Sara(h) Louchard, the daughter of a rich Jewish banker of Arras. The Louchard family was a Jewish banking dynasty, dating back at least to the XIIth century, and ( Read more... )

Did you read Prince Albert de Monaco is pushing off his WEDDING for the OLYMPIC GAMES?? Wow, once upon a time the Games would have waited for such an event… but google the prince who had a kid out of wedlock and all, royal families are NOT what they used to be!

The Clinton wedding took place on shabbes, with a reform rabbi no one recognizes and ( Read more... )

I'm on antibiotics and all, BH my nose cleared up... but I could barely sing at the seder. Oh and Pessach food + antibiotics = running every hour. Yay.

FB tells me my convert friend is dating a non Jew and stoppd eating kosher. On Pessach, oy... this is awful.

A few months ago I went to a modern Orthodox wedding. Both were fatherless. The girl went to the chuppa at her grandfather's arm, and the boy at his mother's.

Interestingly, they were sitted under the chuppa, not standing, and the rabbi said sitting on the kallah's seat was a segular for girls to get married, and the kallah's mom went and sat. I ( Read more... )

Two of my cousins are pregnant. The closest one (my great-uncle's daughter - there are others on the same closeness but they all died in the Shoah except one whose only grandchild isn't Jewish, another who died young, another who is childless, another whose only son is intermarried, another who has mental issues and that I don't see marrying ( Read more... )

... "Beware, you may get re interested in your roots too late".

I read this message on a website, and my heart broke. A man whose neshama woke up 50 years too late.

can my son read kadish for me please
i am jewish for the beginning of time... my grandafather rabbi simantov mutal..... i married a non jewish woman... am diverced now i am 76... born 7 ( Read more... )

My Mati fan club and my anti assimilation groups are definitely growing. (36 and 145 respectively!) - feel free to join, especially the second one that always needs more support!!

I have received, as every year, a Hanuka package with food, dreidels and decorations from my grandparents in Israel. The decorations do look like Xmas stuff! Red and ( Read more... )

 
( Tuesday 10 July 2007: Mati being popular, Tsfat, we found R’ Barnutza!, Tiberias Lake, rants and bats! )