To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate?

With more and more people getting sick both in France at large and in our school, vaccination against the A H1N1 virus has been on my mind a lot lately. I have noticed (on FB mainly) that some folks got the vaccine or had their children vaccinated. I have also phoned a cousin of mine [...]

# 245 Haveil Havalim

Shmuel Sokol’s First Edition of Haveil Havalim is up at Torat Yisrael. Thanks Shmuel for the hard work and for including a post of mine.

Weekly Review with Painting

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
- Fall Beauties for Ruby Tuesday
- Swiss Windows and Doors for Window Views

I Really Should Be Working

Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard, a book review

Parshah Post: Vayetze

Elsewhere in the JBlogosphere

Mom in Israel hosts the latest edition of Haveil Havalim

KCC (the Kosher Cooking festival) is up at Pesky’s

Mimi of Israeli Kitchen reviews a cookbook

Leora illustrates the [...]

Parshat Vayetze

וַיִּיקַץ יַעֲקֹב, מִשְּׁנָתוֹ, וַיֹּאמֶר, אָכֵן יֵשׁ יְהוָה בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה; וְאָנֹכִי, לֹא יָדָעְתִּי

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: ‘Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.’
We all have or had dreams, especially as children and teenagers. Yet sometimes, as we grow older, we tend to look at our [...]

Swiss Windows and Doors

Window Views: window, and now doors, from all over the world can be found on Mary’s blog.

Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard

A few weeks ago, Deborah Rey was kind enough to send me a copy of her book – I dare not call it a novel – Rachel Sarai’s Vineyard. I read it and was so moved by this reading that I wished to let some time pass before writing about it.
As an adult, Rachel Sarai [...]

I Really Should Be Working

- We have a face-to-face meeting with parents tonight and I am still wondering how I will find words that they might relay and that will have an impact on the students and improve the way they learn English.
- I have 30 papers to mark on a sales meeting between an American and three Japanese [...]

Fall Beauties

I was away for the weekend and have a very busy day ahead, hence my belated participation in Today’s Flowers and early one in Ruby Tuesday.
For more flowers from around the globe, visit Today’s Flowers.

On Tuesdays, just post any photo you like (it must be one of your own) that contains the color RED and [...]

It’s Friday Again

On My Blog

Memes:
- Last Flowers for Today’s Flowers
- Simple But Lovely for Ruby Tuesday
- Remembering Through Little Things for Think(ing) Green Thursday

Today’s Jewish Thinkers

Weekly Recipe: Lentil Stew

New Bathroom

Elsewhere in the JBlogosphere

Last Sunday’s edition of Haveil Havalim is up at ImaBima

Go To The Ant, Sluggard, See Her Ways And Become Wise (Proverbs 6:6), a post by [...]

Remembering Through Little Things

Being in a job where a lot of paper is used – books, handouts, lesson preparations, photocopies – I often felt that too much of it was wasted.
Some colleagues suggested having a special waste basket for paper so that it coud be recycled. For years this was deemed impossible since it would mean more work [...]