I have reached a conclusion. Anyone who lives out of their luggage and has to schnorrer meals for shabbos is homeless. Yes, that puts all seminary girls and most yeshiva guys in the homeless category, but it’s kind of true. If you don’t have your own little space with freedom to move around and your […]
I spent a recent shabbos at the home of people, who lets just say, are very very yekki. I was invited with a friend and while I slept over, the friend was told to come at 10:30 in time for kiddush. Well, my friend came at 10:35 and they had already started kiddush- at 10:30 […]
I always had this question. When people say “do teshuvah” what exactly do they mean? That is an extremely vauge command. If I’m just a regular girl who I’ll admit, is not an angel, do I have to feel as though I’m an evil sinner who needs to repent? I admit I’m not perfect, but […]
In Israel, every week or so, another faction employed by the government goes on strike. Garbage collectors go on strike every few months and the way Jerusalem residents deal with it is by burning all their garbage in the metal canisters. Since Jerusalem is built almost entirely with stone, there is not much of a […]
Brachfeld is a city which is surrounded on all sides by Arab villages. The dangers with going to the Arab villages have more to do with crimes associated with poor primitive countries than with a murderous anti-Jewish mentality. It still is a slight risk to go to the Arab villages- a guard was once murdered […]
In Israel, every week or so, another faction employed by the government goes on strike. Garbage collectors go on strike every few months and the way Jerusalem residents deal with it is by burning all their garbage in the metal canisters. Since Jerusalem is built almost entirely with stone, there is not much of […]
Brachfeld is a city which is surrounded on all sides by Arab villages. The dangers with going to the Arab villages have more to do with crimes associated with poor primitive countries than with a murderous anti-Jewish mentality. It still is a slight risk to go to the Arab villages- a guard was once murdered […]
A friend of mine is touring Europe and sent me these pictures of the fjords in Norway. I thought they were beautiful so I wanted to share them with you.
A famous American camp in Jerusalem which has been active for the past 25 years took the campers out for an activity in the Jerusalem forest. Apparently they were supposed to paint pine cones, but when they didn’t find any pine cones the counselors told them to start painting the trees. While the counselors were […]