My youngest child goes to pre-school, called “gan” in Israel, six days a week. I have to pick him up from gan every day in the middle of the afternoon. I also have to bring him a snack. Near every gan is a playground, what he calls a park. So every day after I pick …
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First night Selichos
It’s about 2 in the morning, Sunday morning, Israeli time. I just returned home from the first night of selichos. Our synagogue has started a tradition of a musical first night of selichos. Saying the familiar liturgy combined with the niggunim from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and others turned out to be more moving …
Election Day
Last week was election day in Israel and it is a national holiday of sorts. That meant that I had to take off work (and of course do today’s work and tomorrow’s work tomorrow). The kids were out of school so I was required to spend the day playing and having fun with them. The …