Gilad Shalit Blesses "HaGomel"

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Shavuot Posts Redux

I decided to search my archives and recycle some old posts. Here is what I found:

Tikun Leil Shavuot

Love, Love, Love

Is It Not Wheat Harvest Today?

Killing Time?

Thoughts on Receiving the Torah

Weinergate, Shavuot and the Zohar

Shavuot and Teshuvah

Chag Sameach!

The National Insurance Institute

Bituach Leumi(The National Insurance Institute) has a new sign:

Aren't you glad that I shared that with you?

The Men Who Saved the World From the Nazis

Some of them are still alive. May they live until 120! You can see them here. Read what I wrote about them way back when here and here.

Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi is Right!

Intermarriage is a red line that must not be crossed:

Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi, a Bar Ilan University lecturer and brother in-law of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, slammed the government's plan to issue currency with the likeness of Hebrew poet Shaul Tchernichovsky. Turning Tchernichovsky into a “national icon” was a terrible idea and would set a bad example – because of his longtime marriage to a Christian woman, he explained.

Be sure to read the entire article. This part of the article was a revelation for me:

Ben-Artzi compared the issue with that of the struggle by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook in the days before the establishment of the state to block the appointment of Max Nordau as the successor to Theodor Herzl to lead the World Zionist Congress. Nordau was married to a non-Jew who could not be converted.

Tel Aviv the Beautiful II

Seen at Rabin Square (Kikar Rabin):

Tel Aviv the Beautiful