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Posted on: Wednesday, December 07, 2005
...that I had a romantic dilemma to ruminate on? Well, I don't any more: she made sure of it. Shalom, bye. *shrug*
Nor are things any more propitious on the national level: first we had the homicide bombing in Netanya in which five people(HY"D) were brutally massacred. And just when one was beginning to think that the international community, embodied for better or worse by the UN, had decided to adopt a more balanced approach toward the Middle Eastern problem, the UNSC fails to condemn terror in Netanya. Chairman Abas squeezed out a halfhearted condemnation but because the massacre "harms Palestinian interests", not because innocent lives were so callously taken. And just to prove that those of us who've been naive enough to have thought that the leadership of Chairman Abas and then haHitnatqut would usher in a new era are terribly mistaken, the Palestinian soccer association decides to punish players who played in a peace match. Are ALL Palestinians total jerks or only the ones making the news? I am slowly beginning to believe those rabid rightists screaming ad nauseam that we have no peace partner on the other side. Sad... Well, another *shrug*
On a completely different notion, at lunch today I was teaching a giyoret birkat hamazon and found it a very fulfilling experience. I never do birkat hamazon unless I really have to, so it means I do it practically never. But teaching it today brought back all those wonderful melodies and sense of closeness...even if with a gerah.
I might even do it more often myself... 
- the brakhah, that is
Posted on: Wednesday, December 07, 2005
ב''ה
...that I had a romantic dilemma to ruminate on? Well, I don't any more: she made sure of it. Shalom, bye. *shrug*
Nor are things any more propitious on the national level: first we had the homicide bombing in Netanya in which five people(HY"D) were brutally massacred. And just when one was beginning to think that the international community, embodied for better or worse by the UN, had decided to adopt a more balanced approach toward the Middle Eastern problem, the UNSC fails to condemn terror in Netanya. Chairman Abas squeezed out a halfhearted condemnation but because the massacre "harms Palestinian interests", not because innocent lives were so callously taken. And just to prove that those of us who've been naive enough to have thought that the leadership of Chairman Abas and then haHitnatqut would usher in a new era are terribly mistaken, the Palestinian soccer association decides to punish players who played in a peace match. Are ALL Palestinians total jerks or only the ones making the news? I am slowly beginning to believe those rabid rightists screaming ad nauseam that we have no peace partner on the other side. Sad... Well, another *shrug*
On a completely different notion, at lunch today I was teaching a giyoret birkat hamazon and found it a very fulfilling experience. I never do birkat hamazon unless I really have to, so it means I do it practically never. But teaching it today brought back all those wonderful melodies and sense of closeness...even if with a gerah.
I might even do it more often myself... - the brakhah, that is
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