Purim – the year of the brides
Seems like Rivky had alot of company in the bridal department this Purim. Two of her cousins where brides as well. Purim was very nice. We kept it on the low key side since it was right before Shabbos. We had the main day meal celebration at my sisters house.
Purim!
Purim starts tonight! Rivky is dressing up as queen esther/bride. She’s wearing one of my old wigs.
The Indiana Jones of rabbis
Here is an interesting article that Marci IM’d over to me yesterday about a Rabbi who goes and finds hidden Sefrei Torah (Torah Scrolls) from Europe and restores them.
Part Indiana Jones and part Sherlock Holmes, scribe Youlus travels the world following leads on sacred scrolls, brokering secret deals for them, smuggling them in ingenious fashion across hostile borders, and even digging in the earth for them.
A very interesting read.
Korban Pesach 5767?!
I meant to post this before Passover started, but I didn’t have the time.
Korban Pesach 5767?!:
A group of right-winged activists were detained for questioning Monday afternoon after police prevented them from entering the Har Habayis, where they reportedly intended to sacrifice a goat. (Jpost)
It’s people like this that really drive me mad.
Open Letter
An excellent open letter to the fools in Iran (and elsewhere in the world) that think that the holocaust didn’t happen.
A tip of the hat to Professor Althouse for pointing it out.
Who would have thought?!
Well, I’m here in Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport watching the plane that I’ll be taking home in about an hour just pull into the gate from its last flight. I have to say that this was a very enjoyable Shabbos and one that I didn’t really expect at all.
First of all, I want to thank the people at the Phoenix Community Kollel for setting me up with a place to say and eat for my stay here. My hosts, the Cohen family, were wonderful and it turns out that we know a lot of the same people and I have a ton of regards to send to people. That would usually be enough to put me at ease in a strange city, but it also turned out that I know a few members of the Kollel from other places (like from my days at a sleep away camp that no longer exists and an old high school friend that I had not seen in 18 years.)
Shabbos lunch was something to behold, and it was delicious as well. I would like to thank my hosts for that meal, Amir & Sandra Goldenberg, for a wonderful meal and some wonderful conversation as well. While at lunch, I did meet a fellow blogger, Mark Einhorn, and have started going through his blog. It’s an interesting read and really enlightened me to something I had no clue about heretofore.
All in all, it was a delightful Shabbos and now I am looking forward to being home in about 5 hours or so.
Update: While in my post flight shower, I realized that I forgot to thank the person who got the ball rolling with this whole thing. That person is none other than my one and only brother in law from the west coast, Shalom Garfinkel. So Shalom, if you are actually reading my blog, thanks.
I’m not sure what to make of this
I saw this on PaleoJudaica last night I found in interesting to say the least. According to a report from Arutz Sheva, it seems that Bill Gates is beginning to take up an interest in learning the methodology of studying the Talmud. It seems that even some Microsoft representatives visited a yeahiva in Beni Brak and were offered the option on helping Microsoft in creating a program on the Torah and the Talmud.
What type of application could Microsoft make?
heh
The cover of the Purim edition of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Rivky’s Chanukah Play Solo
I didn’t mention this earlier because I didn’t want to jinx it for her but Rivky had a solo in the Chanukah play that her class put on last week (the last day before they went on vacation). Since our video camera broke (a long story about how that happened) Malky and I were wondering how we were going to record the play. It turns out that Malky’s sister came to the play with her video camera so we will be getting the entire play and our new camera is able to take some video as well. The video imported into iPhoto without a problem and I have now uploaded it so you can see it too.
Yes I know, I am one of “those” fathers. 
The first night of Chanukah
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