Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Random Musings and Voting
So everyonce in a while, I just feel like writing about a bunch of smaller topics, so here goes.
It’s Cold
Ok, not really cold as midwest goes…but man, these buildings really don’t have insulation. It’s in the mid 60’s right now, and I’m already in sweatshirt, pants, shoes, and drinking hot tea. Of course, I could [...]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Vacationing in the North of Israel and the Negev Desert
The Jewish holidays are finally over and live and school will go back to normal. It also means that are break for Sukkot is also done. For Sukkot, we went with our friends Nikki and Rachel to the Haifa area in the north, and then Jess and I traveled south into the Negev.
Ein Gedi and [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The Quiet City
Today is Yom Kippur, the Day of Repetence. In the States, we would have woken up, got dressed, hoped in the car, and drove to services. We would have had to deal with the hustle bustle of a normal day in Cleveland. Just a day where 80,000+ people were purposefully fasting and going to services [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Paul McCartney
So after a 43 year ban, a Beatle has finally played in Israel. And man was it a packed show. The concert took place in a park in Tel Aviv. It was us and our 50,000 closest friends all singing along to Hey Jude.
Overall, the show was pretty good. Israeli’s have a strange sense of [...]
