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Hi again!

NOTE: There was a problem at [http://www.hostmysite.com/ my web hosting provider] which caused the partial loss of [[Blog/April 2008/April 4th|last week's blog]] right after I had posted it.  Fortunately for you, I managed to restore the words of wisdom.

Since this is the week before {{wiki|Pesach}}, I bring to your attention a brilliantly written investigative report, ''[http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1862 The Renegade Exodus and Other Crimes of Moses]''.  Let me know what you think of it...

We shipped Daniela off to the US, where she'll be until after Pesach.  While there, she's going to spend time looking at Stern College and seeing how she likes it.  Then she'll spend Pesach with friends in the Seattle area.  On her way back, she'll bring my mother for her ''first'' trip outside the US (excluding Canada, which doesn't count -- sorry, Canadians). 

Sarah took her first ''{{wiki|bagrut}}'', or Israeli matriculation exam.  She was pretty tense going into it, but did perfectly (100 score).  That it was the ''bagrut'' in English helped a lot... since, after all, her English is not too shabby.  Now she gets off until after Pesach, which is nice.  She will enjoy her time off.

The banks, however, are not nice.  We ''still'' don't understand how our "credit card" is supposed to work.  We got refused for a very small purchase, though we had plenty left on our "credit" as far as we can tell.  That's frustrating; but being unable to withdraw cash from the ATM ''at our bank'' because it's usually out of cash, is infuriating.  <grrrr>!

I can tell you one nice thing though: shopping here for Pesach is a fantasy come true!  Most of the products in the markets are already "kosher for Pesach" (at least for those of us who eat ''{{wiki|kitniyot}}''.  There is literally every kind of product you might want, ready for even the most picky Pesach consumer.  Esther bought wine the other day, and got two wineglasses free (remember when they used to do that in the US, a ''long'' time ago?).  Now if we only had the Pesach offering to eat, then we'd  be set!



Shabbat shalom!

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