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And up and up...
...the spiral staircase we ascend...
climbing ...climbing...
ever higher...
Yet when we look down,
the ground is JUST THERE,
beneath our feet...
So......
At midnight on the 9th of July, the new South Sudanese national anthem played on television recognizing the official beginning of South Sudan as an Independent democratic...
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I had a small swelling on my gums which hurt. I went to my dentist. He checked it out and said to me:
“I cannot do anything about it, you will have to go to the...
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The name is Neymar.
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior.
Or just, Neymar.
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Maze cartoon about the ground zero mosque - Sept 11th scene.
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I love it...
(By Sybil Ottenstein)
When Theodor Herzl had a dream, he probably didn’t predict a generation of young Jews abandoning it a mere 150 years later. Today’s generation,...
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Oh, hello. I’m a little late to the wedding game this season (I totally blame my dad for having six emergency bypasses) but one topic has been punching me in the face for a...
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The Magic of Odelia's
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Ever since getting to Israel, I feel like I'm only able to post about something that happened a week or two before. This one (it'll be brief) is about attending Shabbat services...
Parents will appreciate those crazy emotions: the ones that sit in your chest and swell and surge and gush and bubble. The ones that people tell you you’ll never know...
Antique mixed with high-tech. Highly polished marble of today alternating with roughly hewn stones of the past. Sameness is (yawn) boring. Disparity draws one deeper...
If Facebook represents the average Joe, G-d help us.
I log on to see “Go Egypt, Go!” as my friend’s status update.
My newsfeed reads, “3 people have...
Someone has to say it, and it’s going to be me. Human cause and effect is a myth. Our effort doesn’t create an outcome. In fact, our efforts have nothing at all to...
