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Hi, again!

Much of our mental (and physical) energies this week were dedicated to getting ourselves geared-up to prepare to begin to be ready for ''pesaḥ''. Besides getting set up with meat and wine and “unleavened bread”, there are plenty of other groceries to acquire and organization and cleaning of the house to accomplish. This, even though we are quite relaxed about the cleaning compared to what many of our co-religionists do. The main thing is to be organized about the process.

The biggest news of the week is that Daniela was not only accepted to a [http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/MA-Edu dual-masters program at NYU], but somehow managed to get them to give her a full scholarship. So congratulations, daughter, and we look forward to hearing all about it when you and Jeremy are here in just over a week (!).

Sarah spent all week working on projects, she’s plum worn out; we expect her and Dinah to sleep most of ''shabbat''. Something that should be of interest to Sarah (and anyone else who is vegetarian) is a new study about
[http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0088278&representation=PDF the health effects of vegetarianism]. It’s very interesting, and contrary to what most of us would expect. To wit: vegetarians are generally ''less healthy'' than non-vegetarians. There are questions to ask about the study, but it’s an interesting data point.

Last week I mentioned the despicable manner in which the US is treating Pollard. It gets worse: now,
our “best friends” [http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7927 are blackmailing us]. I sincerely hope Netanyahu grows a pair and tells the Americans to go piss up a rope. I am happy to report that as of today, we seem to be showing some spine, and [http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Israel-cancels-fourth-prisoner-release-347471 are calling off the last release of terrorists]. Hopefully, this will be the last we have to hear about the ill-named “peace process”, which resulted only in Jewish deaths and no peace.

This week, Canonical (the purveyors of [http://www.ubuntu.com/ “Ubuntu Linux”]) announced that they are
[http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/ shutting down their UbuntuOne] cloud storage service. You may not care, but I do: I was using UbuntuOne as my “off-site” backup. So now I’ve had to switch my off-site backup to use “Dropbox”.

So what is “Dropbox” (or similar services)? Simply put, it’s an easy way to store your electronic documents, pictures, etc. in “the cloud”. That just means that whatever you put in your own “dropbox” is copied “out there somewhere”, and you can access it whenever you want. That sounds like a great thing, but there’s a catch.

The catch is that whatever is in your “dropbox” is potentially accessible to others (such as, at the minimum, the people who run Dropbox). If you’re just saving pictures from your trip to Maui, it probably doesn’t matter. But if you’re backing-up your financial documents, you will want to be careful.

Being careful in this case means [[Privacy|using strong encryption]] to keep people honest. What I do for my own data is put the stuff into an archive file (tar in my case, but zip or other formats work just as well), encrypt the archive with my private GPG key, and then copy the encrypted archive to my Dropbox folder. This is easy, safe and free. If you don’t have a Dropbox account and want a free one, [https://db.tt/C38kOSKH click here].

In the news:
* At long last, the weasel [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179085 got what he deserved]. There is some justice, after all.
* Think snakes on a plane is bad? What about [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179094 snakes in the bathtub!] I would venture to say that nobody expects this to happen in Tel Aviv.
* And you are probably as shocked as I am to hear that [http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-barack-obama-calls-jerusalem-home/ Barack Obama lives in Jerusalem]. Who knew?

Dinah will be with us this ''shabbat''. We’ll serve up:
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chicken soup,
vegetable soup,
roast beef,
roasted potatoes and yams,
''orzo'' salad,
''bulgur'' ''pilaf'',
cabbage salad,
Israeli salad,
eggplant salad,
zucchini with mushrooms,
pareve ''cholent''
and blueberry muffins.

Until next week,<br>
''shabbat shalom''!

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