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Aug 14th (See this week's devar torah)
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Hi again!
This week we attended the wedding of my third-cousin-once-removed, whose parents (also my cousins, of course) live on the other side of Jerusalem from us. The grooms mother is one of the "long lost relatives" I met when I first came to Israel, in the 1980s -- and we've kept in touch to varying degrees since then.
In any case, the wedding was held in a place called Gan Hapekan (the Pecan Garden), which is almost an hour and a half drive from where we live. So we go there and the first people we see at the place are our next-door neighbors from Maale Adummim! Turns out, they are close friends of the bride's family.
Besides meeting my neighbors, we also met up with quite a few of my various and sundry cousins -- some from Israel and some from the US. I really enjoyed catching up with the family, and hope to stay in a bit closer contact than before.
And speaking of that "various and sundry", one of my cousins (from the other side of my family) was contact by a previously unknown second-cousin of his, who had a bunch of information on our (common) family. So now I have that information, and I'll be incorporating it into the mostly moribund family-tree project.
This is Grampa Victor's last shabbat here with us this time around, so we're pulling out all the stops. Kibbeh, stuffed artichokes, challah, matbucha, roasted chicken, Hummus, techina and hilbe. Plus a fruit cobbler for dessert. All homemade, of course. And that's just for tonight... mmm, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!
This is also Daniela's penultimate shabbat with us this time. So I made "fish-n-chips" last night per her request, and I have to make "pad thai" sometime this week to fulfill my fatherly obligation to spoil her before she slips out of my reach again.
Sarah is starting her summer job on Sunday. I think she's looking forward to making some money. I'm taking Sunday and Monday off from work so I can spend time with Grampa Victor and Daniela before they escape our clutches. We'll see just what we end up doing.
More geek news:
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Political:
Until next week,
Shabbat shalom!
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