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If you thought to yourself, “yes, I do indeed hate the mainstream news enough!”, you’d be wrong! The “Associated Press” published this absolute banger of a story entitled, “Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover”. I apologize for being unable to provide “sickness bags”.
Between the outrageously anti-Israel and frankly antisemitic articles from sources such as the AP, the NYT, and the BBC (not to mention the actually Nazi posts on social media) and far more subtle ones from CNN etc., is it any wonder that Israelis (and many non-Israeli Jews) feel there’s no sense in even trying to “win” the PR battle?
Then you have incidents such as Iberia (the airline) serving up antisemitism to paying customers. France doesn’t want to be left behind either. Nor is the USA unaffected.
I’m beginning to get really, really, pissed off.
Various notes:
- My friend on Surreal, Real and Israel.
- An indirect relative: what we faced on Oct 7th was pure Islamism.
- A thread from an Israeli mother and lawyer, on her experiences of the past two years.
- Another thread: on the history of the Western Wall.
- Trump deploys nuclear subs. What, me worry?
- Gen-Z don’t know how to cook (and why that matters).
We had a busy week, starting with the fast of 9Av (which went surprisingly well for us). Then Esther had a medical appointment which involved fasting as well, so she was hoping for some serious weight loss; sadly, a day or two of fasting doesn’t quite do the job.
I assembled the circuitry for the FrankenLamp™ (FL) and installed it in a housing. I’ve started on the mounting, but that will have to wait ‘til next week, ‘cause I’m out of time this week. I measured the light output of my current “high intensity lamp” (800 lux), and FL on low-intensity (1000 lux) and high-intensity (10,000 lux). So, achievement unlocked!
Our shower head was becoming defunct, so I got a shiny new assembly with a somewhat ridiculously large head; now we can feel we’re in a hotel at home!
Last but not least: I worked on my shiur for next Monday, on “olives”. It’ll be a great one!
The weather for shabbat is supposed to be “beastly hot”. Highs approaching 40C, which is in my humble opinion, entirely too hot. It’ll stay hot for some days, though probably not as hot as that, one hopes.
This time we’re on our own for shabbat. On the menu:
homemade ḥalla,
laḥmajin (لحم بعجين),
pulled brisket,
pesto pasta,
salmon,
vegetables,
various salatim,
and pear küchen.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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