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| − | This past motsai-shabbat Sarah and some of her classmates threw a party
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| − | for one of their friends who was going back to Australia, so she took the bus to
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| − | Jerusalem where they met in a restaurant and had a fine time. Finally around 11
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| − | at night she called to ask when the bus would return; she took it back and ended
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| − | up at home around 11:45. I'm relating this because it shows for one thing, how
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| − | safe one generally is here. Back in the USA we would never have allowed her to
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| − | travel by bus late at night; but here it's normal especially after shabbat.
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| − | More than that, though I think it's indicative of a shift on her part as well
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| − | - she herself would never have taken a bus at night "back home". Earlier we got
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| − | notice that Daniela was accepted to Stern College, which was not a surprise -- but
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| − | just the other day we got further notice that they are giving her a full
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| − | scholarship to their honors program, which is a huge surprise and actually makes
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| − | her attendance there feasible. Now she has to decide whether or not that's
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| − | what she really wants to do.
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| − | I have been officially promoted at work though as
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| − | far as i know there is no extra salary associated with the extra responsibility.
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| − | Essentially, in addition to my other tasks I am also going to be the technical
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| − | contact for our company to our various potential clients. My bosses were pleased
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| − | with how I have handled the one potential client - as was the client - so they
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| − | decided to put all such contacts on my shoulders. ~ow if i can only convince them
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| − | to put more silver in my pocket...
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| − | The saga of the house move continues. This week
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| − | we contracted with a mover to move the contents of our rental to the house. B"H
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| − | we should be moving the last week of June. In the meantime, we met with an
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| − | electrician and a general contractor just today. I\'m afraid to find out what
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| − | their estimates are going to be -- particularly the general contractor who is
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| − | all excited about replacing the plumbing in the house we\'ll see i found a local
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| − | supplier of soft matsah so i just placed an order anyone interested can ask me
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| − | this week and i\'ll give the contact information a dutch parlimentarian recently
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| − | released a short movie fitna which shows verses of quran interspersed with
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| − | scenes of muslim terrorist violence needless to say it has been banned almost
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| − | everywhere -- even in cyberspace where supposed freedom from tyranny is a byword
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| − | bye-word is more like it since we need to show more respect for islam you might
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| − | enjoy the following video ay there are so many interesting things going on first
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| − | in actual good news let me recommend anyone interested in my friend elisheva
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| − | barre barre\'s new book torah for gentiles feel free to contact her at
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| − | shevabar hotmail com it it\'s an interesting read and full of information do you
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| − | remember me talking about blog february 2008 feb 22nd the bridge in jerusalem
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| − | well the expensive eyesore has developed cracks in the welds just wait till some
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| − | shahid detonates him-or-herself next to it the presumed child-abuse scandals
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| − | involving members of the religious community have been all over the news
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| − | recently i don\'t know whether the accusations are true or not; that that\'s a
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| − | matter for courts to decide what i do know however is that the despicable and
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| − | smarmy manner in which the media choose to depict the stories is not good for
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| − | anyone and i wonder were it not for the uncompromising anti-religious stance of
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| − | most of the media would the stories not be reported a bit more moderately when
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| − | they describe people as belonging to a cult it automatically prejudices the
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| − | reader -- which of course is their intent of course anti-religious stances are
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| − | nothing new among the media or the rest of the so-called \'elite\' here whether
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| − | lauding the foundation of \'open house\' or permitting public sale of chamets
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| − | during pesach in jerusalem our \'elite\' surely make known their contempt for
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| − | the unwashed masses too bad that the demographics point to a marked drop in the
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| − | \'elite\' classes and a huge upsurge in the \'unwashed masses up the revolution
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| − | shabbat shalom nav blog blog blog march 2008 march 28th mar 28th ')
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