Jews always travelled. Sometimes Sefardim ended up in Ashkenazi countries, and sometimes Ashkenazim ended up in Sefardi countries. Depending on how organized they were (individuals? families? communities?) they retained nothing, almost nothing... up to everything of their minhagim ( Read more... )

We went up early for the Petach Tikva Imamother meet where there was no one. Apparently they gave me not enough indications and somehow there are several big malls, or something. Anyway Mati was disappointed and furious and made me pay all day that she didnt see my friends and their kids. I wasn’t even so surprised, the trip has been that way all ( Read more... )

We went to Mea Shearim (where Mati wants to settle because there are many « frum » and she likes little boys in « tights » and long payes) for shopping, and for the first time in years my husband actually found not one but two hats he liked ! He is very picky hat wise, not wanting one looking old, or Chabad, or this, or that, and must be Borsalino ( Read more... )

You would have thought I would have slept well after such a day, but no, I barely slept 4 or 5 hours. I kept remembering the utter stupidity of the stewardesses, unable to understand even a safety word in French on a Paris flight, and their total lack of brains. Who asks a parent handling a vomitting toddler to please quickly choose a juice or what ( Read more... )

stop copying my sheitels, my vacations or my pics, it's pitiful
9:25 PM Jan 12th from web
anpe lady was a yid, we'll have aids for more than a year!
9:22 PM Jan 12th from web
bought 4 new guppies and 2 ancistrus!
8:02 PM Jan 12th from web
On Imamother, 147 pages of members out of 224 have no post! and 162 have zero or one only!

 -Mati loves her gan. They even have an indoor playground for the winter ( Read more... )

Mati loved the gan. We had to promise she would be back tomorrow. The morot loved her ( Read more... )

Recently, someone posted a cry for help on Imamother. She wants to give a Ladino name to her daughter, and her husband's rav basically is ignorant, and finds a fake reason to not do it (he says it shouldn't be used because there is a bad Hebrew word with a few letters in common, if that was the case we wouldn't use Gita -get- or Pessel -plain "idol ( Read more... )

 Courtesy of Yalt, from Imamother ( Read more... )

• 03:05 mati cares so well of her "baby" (very realistic doll that drinks, cries, sleeps, laughs...), she "nurses" it and changes it and puts to bed #
• 03:06 mati keeps the bottle nearby "in case she wakes up". Yup, it's a girl, and she called her... RUCHEL!!!! <3 #
• 03:40 guys named zissel and yentel!! a first one for me #
• 12:06 another one of my ( Read more... )