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Hi again!

Not a lot to report this week; the "High Holidays" started on Monday night, so the week pretty much revolved around preparations-for and execution-of Rosh Hashana.

The weather turned very pleasant -- we even got rain here in Maaleh Adummim over shabbat! -- and the holidays were spent in the usual manner.

Other than that, we took my mother-in-law on a short trip today to Masada, which she enjoyed. The view was really spectacular today, as the weather has blown away haze, and it was not too hot there. What was interesting to me was the tourists: there were tour groups in German, Spanish, French, English and Korean.

In local news: there are elections here on Nov 11th, and there are three people running for mayor of Maaleh Adummim. I actually have met one of them (the vice-mayor, Boris Grossman). The current mayor, Benny Kashriel (whom I almost met) is also running, as is someone whose name I don't know from the "Social Justice" party. It seems to me that Benny is doing a fine job; but I don't really know the "ins and outs" of M"A politics. So today I started to poll people at random: the results for today, Benny 1, Boris 1, SJ 0. I only asked two people, but hopefully I'll be able to give you an "election update" with more data points next week...

Now that the "shemitta year" is over, we want to get a real gardener to come and take care of our trees and prune them properly (and advise us how to best take care of them ourselves). But now that shemitta is over, we have to worry about terumoth and ma`aseroth (various tithes).

Sarah has a "shabbat-in-school" this week. The girls stay at school, and have a communal shabbat there. She's not really excited to go, but she'll probably have a good time despite her misgivings. Hopefully the food won't be "icky" and she'll have good report to bring us tomorrow night.

Until next week,
Shabbat shalom!

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