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Apr 1st -- sorry, no devar torah this week
Hi, again!
We are now on IDT (Israel Daylight Time), so we're back in synch with our friends and family in the US. The cool weather has taken a break, and today and tomorrow will see temperatures into the high twenties or low thirties Celsius here in Maale Adummim... that's pretty hot! But the heat wave is supposed to break on Sunday, and we will see cool and possibly wet weather this coming week.
Two weeks until pesaḥ! The craziness commences, parallel frenzies: cleaning and shopping, to ensure everything is "just right" for the seder. It's only one night a year -- and my favorite holiday. So far, we've managed to get our meat ordered as well as some "back-up" maṣah, but we've still got to get wine and lots of vegetables.
An interesting poll of Israeli youth, conducted in 2010 found that 46% favored revoking Arab's rights in Israel. That sounds alarming; but when you realize that 25% of those polled were Arabs, you know the number among the Jewish youth is higher still. Judging from what I see from my own experience (ehem, Sarah...) it's obvious that the "youth" are far less likely to be conciliatory to the Arabs than their parents' generation. As the article points out, it is "possible" that the "combination of years of intifada and its effect on Jews"... may have something to do with the hardening of attitudes. Do 'ya think?
Odds and ends:
- Last Friday was the Jerusalem marathon. Do you notice anything unusual about the finalists?
- Geek humor: "An SQL statement walks into a bar and sees two tables and says, 'Hello, may I join you?'"
- What happens when a fly falls into a cup of coffee?
- Which "green technologies" are real?
Looking forward to a very quiet (though warm) shabbat! This week we're operating on the pre-pesaḥ plan, so it's going to be: chicken-vegetable soup with noodles, pastel de papas, couscous, glazed carrots, zucchini with peppers, tuna-stuffed-tomatoes, eggplant in tomato sauce, cassoulet, cookies.
Until next week,
shabbat shalom!
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