Non frum Jews go to Shul at most 3 times a year, twice on Rosh Hashanah and for Yom Kippur. How sad that the only 3 days they go to Shul are the longest and most somber of the year...that is a way to get closer to Judaism? NO NO NO, you get up and you get your tuchus to Shul on Purim, to an Orthodox Shul, and you see the joy and happiness that ( Read more... )

COUPLES out there!! What are you going to be for Purim? Southern gentry? Caesar & Cleopatra? French aristocracy? Darken Rahl and a Mord Sith? Priest & Nun? Ok, scratch that.

Flamingo, my guinea pig, manages to open the door of his cage (the door is UP!), to jump out and go down to the floor to go and hang out in the living room... weird!

In ( Read more... )

After interviewing my grandparents (who both come from very frum but very different backgrounds), it seems the "omg woman, you didn't hear the megila twice??" thing didn't fly pre-war ( Read more... )

 So I've been Mean Mom and removed the potty.

Mati was well able to use the toilets until last Purim when she realized "using the potty is less tiring". Well, I've had enough, so potty "went to sleep" and now toilets are "calling for her".

It's going fine until now.

 This year I interviewed my grandparents about their life pre-war, customs, families, etc ( Read more... )

Mati is sick, she has a rash. It looks like pithyriasis, but the careless pharmacist threw anti allergy meds at us without even looking !

We went around in Jerusalem and saw many people of all kinds in costumes, as the weather was cold but much less dreadful. There was even a dressed up dog with angel wings !

Among the frum, fez and sailor caps ( Read more... )

Today the weather was nice until we were ready to go out. While our costumes had success, it was really spoiled by the weather and most events were cancelled anyway.

Israeli roads and streets are really not adapted to rain. It was flooded everywhere and full of accidents. A real nightmare.

We went to my grandparents for a meal and this part was ( Read more... )

This is the story of my first shabbes in Jerusalem. Read and cry (of laughter, if you can).

So. The weather didn’t calm down at all. So we didn’t go to shul. We didn’t go to eat at David’s cousins. I lit the candles in the hotel hall, and we had no kiddush, no grape juice, no food, no water. We passed shabbat like that. It was not shabbat, it was ( Read more... )

• 17:06 Bank still didn't transfer the money frow Swiss... they want to check it's not illegal or terrorist money... WTF #
• 17:22 tehillim for messaoud 'hai ben kouka tinyurl.com/yzdt6hh #
• 18:28 one of my fish (luna or alba) has been found dead in the tank... yes i cried #
• 20:12 Mati came home telling me Haman was hanged by the feet over/near a river ( Read more... )

• 13:52 Mati only has to bring a very simple mishloach, bh #
• 14:00 nuff said! jewishmoms.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/one-womans-22-year-wait-for-a-child #
• 17:34 Mati wants all her classmates for her bday! not happening lol #
• 17:41 FRENCH MANUCURE ON FRIDAY 3 pm #

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