week in review

Haveil Havalim, the blog carnival of the Jewish blogosphere, ~~will show up~~ is now up on this blog on Sunday morning (that’s Sunday afternoon to those of you on the other side of the Atlantic).

The Weekly Review

No, none of these are my daughter. But don't they look beautiful? — No, none of these girls are my daughter. But don't they look beautiful?

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Sepia Scenes
Sky Watch

What Is It? Oh, so that’s what it is!

Pick n Choose Macrobiotics
(take some ideas from this healthy diet and incorporate them in your own eating habits)

Fresh Tekka ( a recipe: you don’t need burdock or lotus to try it; carrots and onions alone can work!)

Unfriendly Neighborhoods

A Holiday for Trees

Gull Lessons

The History of a Bat-Mitzvah (parsha post; thanks for the birthday wishes!)

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

Mimi cooks a fish soup

Baila on Venezuela

Finally, a great geek joke emailed by a good friend (some SQL knowledge necessary)—>oy, this geek joke has gone missing. Sorry!

A Week on My Blog

Snowgirl, January 2009, built by two offspring of mine and a friend

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Thursday Challenge: Cup (can anyone guess where this was taken?)
Sky Watch in the Berkshires

In Which My Son Makes Matzo Balls that are Light and Fluffy

Upcoming Highland Park Public Library Teen Film Festival

Healthy Anger

Parsha Posts:
Parsha Questions (there’s one at the bottom that has not yet been answered)
Symbol of the Moon in Judaism

Elsewhere on the Web

Letter from a Reserve Soldier

Autism, Vaccines and the CDC

Why We (Continue to) Pay Lavishly
(a friend now has a blog on Psychology Today)

I’ll leave you with some humor:
An Israeli Examines a Map of the United States
And Wonders Why the Midwest isn’t in the West

Weekly Review

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This week on my blog

Photo memes:
Today’s Flowers
Sky Watch
Thursday Challenge: Experimental

American Sycamore
(in which I learn the names of prominent trees on my block)

Award Thank Yous

What Do You See? (thanks to everyone who participated)

Parsha Post: Vaera

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

One by One: Standing Up to Terrorism
Phyllis Chesler writes of new Hindu-Jewish-Christian-Buddhist Coalition for Peace against Islamic terrorism.

Winnie-the-Pooh Day

New Research Confirms Vitamin D Blocks Formation of Breast Cancer

Weekly Review

This past week on my blog

Photo memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Thursday Challenge: Many Books (book lovers seem to enjoy this photo)
Sky Watch

Snippets from Israel
Trying to Show Support

Transition to Exodus (parsha post)

Girl with Tulip (watercolor by me)

Ratatouille (a recipe for the hungry)

What Do You See? (come play, it’s fun!)

Elsewhere on the Web

Natural News: Brussel Sprouts Defend Against All Types of Cancer
Dr. Mercola: Antibiotics Are More Dangerous Than You Thought

Israeli Kitchen: Pennies Towards Heaven

Israel Matzav: How Hamas Educates Gifted Children

Parsha (the weekly portion is Shmot or Shemot)
Ilana-Davita: Famous Torah Story
Lion in Zion: And She Called Him Moshe (read the comments)

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I woke up yesterday morning with the news that Katyusha rockets had hit Northern Israel. It seems like the rockets landed in Nahariya, a bustling little town with a pretty waterfront that is south of Rosh HaNikra. One rocket hit a retirement home. We visited Naharia last June: my kids ate pizza, and I bought a salad across the street (my husband probably wasn’t hungry). Why am I talking about food? Isn’t that easier to talk about than war, self-defense, media bias, Islamic fanaticism?

Here’s what I blogged about this past week

Photo memes:
Sky Watch in New Brunswick
Ruby Tuesday Contrasts
Today’s Flowers in Winter

On Israel:
Focused On Israel
Mothers of Soldiers
Baila, who lives in Modi’in, Israel, wrote on my Focused On Israel post:

It will only be a relief if the job is done, Leora. If Hamas continues to throw rockets at our cities, Israel must continue to respond.

Matzo Ball Recipe

A Sweet Angel Song
The song is one that is in this week’s parsha of Vayechi. There is a chapter in Ancient Secrets by Rabbi Levi Meier, z”l, called the “Art of Dying.” It is about Yaakov on his death bed, and what we can learn about dying from Yaakov. However, I couldn’t bear to write about dying. But I did want to mention that chapter.

Noteworthy (to me) in the Greater Blogosphere

Images They Show

The Day the War Started

Oh, What A Wonderful Friendly World We Live In (Just Kidding)
(not the real title of the post, but close)

Ilana-Davita learns from Yaakov: “children are different and that [Yaakov] can’t have the same expectations from all of them.”

And I’ll leave with a link to Jack.

What a Week

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On my blog

Sufganiyot = Doughnuts
On Saturday night we learned that after 8 years of suffering under rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel has struck back. This rather colored my week, as I anxiously think of family, friends and my people.

Memories of Mums in Watercolor

Today’s Flowers: Dianthus in the Snow
Today’s Flowers seemed to be on vacation last week, but feel free to visit the post that I left up.

My World in Donaldson Park
and
Watery Wednesday in Donaldson Park

Watcha Reading?

Intro to Twitter

Sepia Scenes: Ballet

A Woman named Serah (parsha post)

Sky Watch: My Daughter’s Sunrise

Thanks and Recognition

Let’s Play Pretend (please watch this short video about war if you haven’t already. thank you).

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

Seraphic Secret, the self-anointed Bob Hope of the Gaza War, has his 10 best movies of 2008 (from Hollywood’s Golden Age). Here’s part one of his picks. I must check these at some point: when movies were movies!

I wish I didn’t have to link to Jack’s latest post of Gaza War links. (that’s the 6th)

Esser Agaroth has a much shorter list of Gaza Updates.

Zivans in Israel report on the “situation“.

West Bank Mama is a good teacher.

And more sad news…

Michelle at Rambling Woods reported that one of her blogger friends lost her husband suddenly.

Janet at Fond of Snape lost her dear father.

Snowy Week in Review

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On my blog

Sky Watch Sneakers
I suspect people throw them up there to annoy others. I’ve never seen anyone actually do this. They’ve been there for ages, kind of a part of our block.

Thursday Challenge: Sidewalk (a photo of a pink carnation I threw on the icy sidewalk because I crave color in winter)

Kosher Cooking Carnival: Greasy Story Edition

Parsha posts about Joseph and Hanukkah

Caption This Story (drawing by my daughter)

Ways to Stay Healthy post (I’ll try to write another one soon!)

Enjoy the snowy foliage on this post, even if the topic is that crook Madoff.

Elsewhere in the Blogsphere

A tale of an Iranian-Jewish newcomer on a Hanukkah night (Roya Hakakian gets published in Forbes: she is the sister of a Highland Park resident).

Mimi teaches us how to make origami dreidels.

Lion of Zion writes about RPRY in Highland Park/Edison (he lives in Brooklyn).

Week in Review

The Mumbai Massacres: still digesting this horrible tragedy (would love to regurgitate all over the perpetrators). I keep adding more links to this post called Modulate.

Photography memes I did this week:
Sky Watch
Sepia Scenes
Watery Wednesday
Ruby Tuesday
Today’s Flowers

To view my parsha posts, click https://www.leoraw.com/blog/category/jewish/parsha/.

Food posts:
Stuffed Squash Revisited
Ginger

One technical help post: Google Reader
berry tree in the sky

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