An interesting article about the school I may send Mati to, at least for kindergarten.

I'm translating the most interesting excerpts:

The rav Jean-Paul Amoyelle is man of Emouna. He calls through Hamodia to donations for his school. Otzar Hatora today counts 23 schools and 5000 students.

Their historical big donors, the Americans, have stopped ( Read more... )

I have big news to share. I've started writing a kind of book/study. Again. Not for uni, I'm finished with that for the moment bli neder, but for myself, and in hope to have it published (or at worst to have it distributed to chosen Jewish institutions ( Read more... )

I thought this post could interest some here too.

As you may know, i'm not a fan of dumping a -i ending on any name to make it cute. Maybe because I'm not familiar with many Jewish names having a -i nickname before reaching america except apparently in Hungary - and yes I did research. I found:

Moni for Shimon (Poland)
Mati for Mathilde (Greece)
Etti ( Read more... )