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		<title>A fond farewell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer has been unlike any other.  Rather than scrambling to find camps to send all my kids to, I&#8217;ve kept my bigger two home and plan to have my third home for August as well.  (Bill is campin&#8217; it as long as I can arrange it.)  As my kids have been growing older, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2609&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Shabbos goy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While technology (warming trays, thermostats, timers, X10, Shabbat settings on refrigerators and ovens) have largely made the Shabbos goy an anachronism, it was once a necessity.  Illustrious personages such as Martin Scorcese, Mario Cuomo, Colin Powell, and a teenaged Elvis Presley once assisted Shabbat-observant neighbors in the US.  My paternal grandmother (whose parents in America [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2601&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Black and I&#8217;m proud</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/im-black-and-im-proud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes movie lines stick with me decades after I hear them, and I don&#8217;t always know why.  I have half of &#8220;Tootsie&#8221; in my head, bits of &#8220;Thelma and Louise&#8221; (&#8220;Darryl does it, how hard can it be?&#8221;), &#8220;Steel Magnolias&#8221; (&#8220;I haven&#8217;t left home without Lycra on these thighs since I was twelve&#8221;), &#8220;The Corn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2594&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re sinking, we&#8217;re sinking</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/were-sinking-were-sinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month or so ago, I took the train to Tel Aviv to look into the possibility of teaching online for Berlitz.  It requires more time than I can give right now, but my dad sent me this very amusing advertisement they&#8217;ve put out.  Enjoy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2577&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Prof. Ruth Wisse</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/interview-with-prof-ruth-wisse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve become increasingly irritated of late listening to President Obama, former American ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurzer, and various Israeli politicians proclaiming that the road to peace now requires Bibi Netanyahu to make a concrete offer.  Had Israel been dragging its heels to come to the negotiating table, placing absurd roadblocks to the talks (like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2584&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paraprosdokians</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/paraprosdokians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to my first impression, a paraprosdokian is not an Armenian.  It is, in fact, a &#8220;figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation.&#8221;  &#8220;Where there&#8217;s a will, I want to be in it,&#8221; is a type of paraprosdokian.  Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2575&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Muslims are not happy</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/the-muslims-are-not-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are not happy in Gaza. They are not happy in the West Bank. They are not happy in Jerusalem. They are not happy in Israel. They are not happy in Egypt. They are not happy in Libya. They are not happy in Algeria. They are not happy in Tunis. They are not happy in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2573&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nonsensical stories</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/nonsensical-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, my parents had a number of remarkable strengths and talents.  One was a seeming encyclopedic knowledge of card games, which they taught and played with us.  Another was a love of unusual food preservation techniques, like drying food (either with the food dryer my father built himself or on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2569&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flotilla flake-out</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/flotilla-flake-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read last week that the &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; IHH has pulled out of this year&#8217;s Gaza flotilla fracas.  Ynet reports that fewer than 300 nutjobs activists will be setting sail &#8212; far fewer than anticipated, with more dropouts expected.  If this trend continues (and please God, it will), this year&#8217;s flotilla will end up looking something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2565&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cash back (with a new song)</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/cash-back-with-a-new-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy Cash is back with another song, this one hailing the upcoming Free Gaza Flotilla II. In case Allen Krasna&#8217;s masterful video editing makes you miss some of the lyrics, here they are: HEY JEWS (parody lyrics based on the song Hey Jude by Lennon &#38; McCartney) Hey Jews, we&#8217;re setting sail Bound for that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2559&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From slave to officer</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/from-slave-to-officer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this article a couple of months ago on Ynet news. There are a number of reasons why the claim that Israel is an apartheid state is absurd, and this is one of them. The story of Avi Be&#8217;eri, a Guinean former slave whose journey brought him to Israel, Judaism, the IDF, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2555&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English rant #19: Respect</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/english-rant-19-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since my last English rant (nine months).  In that time, I&#8217;ve been gestating a post about a particularly irritating word whose increasing frequency of use has been attended by a corresponding decrease in meaning: respect. There&#8217;s been plenty said (and sung) about this word.  Aretha Franklin&#8217;s &#8220;Respect&#8221; calls for her man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2550&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ima&#8217;s pity party</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/imas-pity-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/?p=2547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate the phone.  I&#8217;m fine talking to people in person, and I love writing emails and letters.  But keep me away from the phone unless it&#8217;s absolutely necessary.  I don&#8217;t love it in English, and like most people struggling with a language that is not their own, I HATE it in Hebrew.  When the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2547&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living the dream</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/living-the-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shimshonit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Westbankmama has a post up with several bloggers&#8217; aliyah stories (including mine) in honor of her family&#8217;s twentieth aliyah anniversary.  Read the different stories about where these women came from, how they ended up here, and the greatest common denominator: how we&#8217;re all home.  Mazal tov, Westbankmama. And when you&#8217;re done with that, check out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2541&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Driving while Israeli</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/driving-while-israeli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shimshonit</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/?p=2533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following a discussion on the Efrat chat list about the best way for an American-Israeli (with an expired Maryland driver&#8217;s license) to drive in the United States, someone posted this anecdote: A friend of mine was driving through the Texas panhandle when he was pulled over by a policeman. When my friend presented his international [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2533&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Walker&#8217;s 21 accents</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/amy-walkers-21-accents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/?p=2528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love accents, and ever since hearing my father imitate his Yiddish-speaking relatives when I was a child, I&#8217;ve attempted to cultivate them for fun.  When I was a student teacher at Boston Latin School, I managed to persuade the same ninth grade English students that I was Irish on one occasion, cockney Londoner on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2528&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being unpopular</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/being-unpopular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shimshonit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I find so challenging about being Jewish is that, at the same time that anti-Semitism has gotten a new lease on life (this time from the Left rather than the Right), Jews are told to sit down, shut up, and stop seeing every critique, assault, or massacre on them, their culture, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2524&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The tailor</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-tailor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shimshonit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After writing recently about the proposed ban on circumcision in San Francisco, I was both surprised and delighted to see that there is an annual Jewish film festival there (which actually claims to be the oldest and largest Jewish film festival in the world; who knew?).  Not only that, YouTube has a page dedicated to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2516&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For jazz lovers</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/for-jazz-lovers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/?p=2497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a jazz sophisticate, nor a fanatical jazz fan, but I grew up hearing plenty of it around my house.  Occasionally, I come across an album that I think is worth listening to, and even owning.  I remember Kai Winding&#8217;s &#8220;Dirty Dog&#8221; (only available on vinyl these days), enjoyed Branford Marsalis&#8217;s &#8220;I Heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2497&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wondering</title>
		<link>http://shimshonit.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/wondering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shimshonit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Months after the murder of the Fogel family by Arab teenage products of PA &#8220;education,&#8221; I have finally reached the point where I don&#8217;t think about the slain, or the remaining children, every day.  But sometimes, their name comes up in conversation, in a newspaper article (the most recent being that the vermin who committed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shimshonit.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6044629&amp;post=2509&amp;subd=shimshonit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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