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		<title>Table manners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided early on that one of my jobs as a pedantic parent is to teach my children table manners.  The Cap’n and I figure this goes hand-in-hand with our philosophy that kids will live up or down to parents’ expectations, and that it is never too early to establish the foundations of good manners.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1068&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking for friends with special diets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, I’ve undertaken some challenging cooking jobs.  Vegan friends sponsored a kiddush, other friends with multiple allergies recently welcomed twins into their family, and a family joined us for Shabbat with a member who doesn’t eat gluten or eggs.  And my in-laws are shortly to join us for a couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1064&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rain, rain, DON&#8217;T go away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is our second day of rain in a row, and we&#8217;re due for more tomorrow.  (Some rumors are circulating that it could even turn to snow, but while snow is sometimes seen outside the Golan Heights, including in Efrat, I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it.)
It began yesterday morning.  We rose to a typical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1058&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the US economy in three easy steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents often forward me things that get passed on to them via email.  Some of the sillier things are things that have 18-point font and lots of all-caps, bold, and exclamation marks (a little like a Leon Uris novel).  Most of these things get a cursory read before I either check Snopes and find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1054&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relatively healthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I have found remarkable about our lives in Israel since making aliyah three and a half years ago has been how relatively healthy our children are.  True, like most new immigrants, we were all dreadfully sick in our first year here.  The Cap’n missed three solid weeks of ulpan while the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1051&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A beautiful song</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/a-beautiful-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sick, the Cap&#8217;n&#8217;s sick, Bill&#8217;s sick.  The laundry is piled up to the ceiling.  I&#8217;ve been cooking and baking for days solid.  I slept about 2 hours last night.  &#8216;Nuff said.
But this song always moves me.  Idan Raichel is one of Israel&#8217;s most miraculous musical talents, and I fell in love with this song [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1045&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Yovel 50th Kosher Cooking Carnival is up</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/the-yovel-50th-kosher-cooking-carnival-is-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batya hosts this month&#8217;s Kosher Cooking Carnival.  Check it out.

 Tagged: cooking      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1035&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 stupid reasons not to make aliyah</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/top-10-stupid-reasons-not-to-make-aliyah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cap’n and I often hear Jews in America say, “Well, I’d really like to make aliyah, BUT…” and after the “but” give lots of reasons.  Some of them make sense (elderly parents to care for, well-established careers that it would be impossible to replicate in Israel or to continue remotely or by commuting) but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1032&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The coin finally drops</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/the-coin-finally-drops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little rhyme popped into my head when I read the headline in last Friday&#8217;s Jerusalem Post which quoted Obama as saying, &#8220;I misjudged the will for peace.&#8221;  (Read with a broad Boston accent.)
Look at Obama sitting in his cawnuh
Eating his humble pie.
&#8220;Had they not been intractible
Or I so impractical
Peace mightn&#8217;t be pie in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1028&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kiddush Hashem</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/kiddush-hashem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are blessed in our neighborhood to have many wonderful rabbis and the opportunity to hear them teach regularly on Shabbat mornings at an English language shiur after davening.  One of our regular speakers, Rav Binny Freedman, spoke yesterday about yitziat Mitzrayim (the exodus from Egypt), kiddush Hashem (sanctifying God&#8217;s name through deeds) and seizing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1026&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cleaning and nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/cleaning-and-nostalgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not really.
But I do remember the dean of faculty at my high school telling me (after learning that I&#8217;d sweated through the previous summer at McDonald&#8217;s for minimum wage) that whenever he saw restaurant experience on a teaching candidate&#8217;s resume, he was always favorably impressed.  He told me, this is someone who is used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1019&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be a convert</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/to-be-a-convert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not easy to be a convert to Judaism.  If the slow, existential transformation one undergoes isn’t enough pain and drama, then the Beit Din is.  Or if the Beit Din is a pleasant bunch (I hear some are, actually), then the Jews themselves make up for it.
I haven’t had as rough a time as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1015&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ein chadash tachat hashemesh</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/ein-chadash-tachat-hashemesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever the Cap’n and I go to a mall, one of the stops we always make is to a Steimatzky’s book shop.  The Cap’n likes to see what sci fi books are out in English (or Hebrew) that he hasn’t read yet, and I usually wander over the rest of the English language book section.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1012&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International &#8220;responses&#8221; to terrorist alerts</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/international-responses-to-terrorist-alerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have probably already received this in your inbox.  But for those who somehow missed it, it&#8217;s too good a giggle to miss.  It&#8217;s also the only post I can imagine where I can apply the two tags &#8220;humor&#8221; and &#8220;terrorism.&#8221;  If anyone knows the source of this witty little piece, please share [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1008&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Dance</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/lord-of-the-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday evening I had the opportunity to take delivery on my birthday present from the Cap’n—tickets to “Lord of the Dance” in Jerusalem
It was “gargious.”  Twenty-five dancers, a pair of fiddlers, and a singer entertained a near-capacity house at Binyanei HaUma (nearly 3000 spectators).  Celtic music, dance, and scenery (stone-looking arches through which the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1004&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partial eclipse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, the Cap&#8217;n and I hauled the kids to the Dekel, the most central neighborhood in Efrat, to view a partial solar eclipse.  They got to miss a bit of school (we were there from about 7:45 to 8:15), and enjoyed viewing the eclipse through thick cellophane filters, through a telescope which projected the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=1001&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going back in time (sort of)</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/going-back-in-time-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peach has been devouring (through my English reading skills) Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House book series.  These were some of my favorites as a child, and it’s been wonderful to pass them on to the next generation.
My mother was musing about what their appeal could be to a little Orthodox Jewish girl living in Israel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=998&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Litter rant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the time I first set foot in Israel in 1996, I have been mesmerized by the beauty and history of this place.
At the same time, however, I&#8217;ve been appalled at how people have chosen to maintain it.  Coming to Israel is like going back in time in many ways, and unfortunately one of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=976&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father recently sent me an article from The New York Times critiquing the way teachers are prepared for their profession in the US.
I have long believed that teachers are very poorly taught (after having gone through a well-reputed program myself), and have discussed this matter with other teachers.  I was pleased with this article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=971&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Geraldine Brooks&#8217;s Year of Wonders</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/book-review-geraldine-brookss-year-of-wonders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a book called Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. It is the story of a Derbyshire village whose citizens agreed voluntarily to quarantine themselves to contain the Plague that had infiltrated it.  It was recommended to me by a friend whose shares my interest in English history and historical fiction.  While our tastes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&blog=6044629&post=969&subd=shimshonit&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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