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Now that we have reached the 1 million mark of the first stage of vaccinations, new questions can be raised. 1. Now that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, people seem to have lost all patience with the tunnel, and can’t bear the lockdown.  How can they be brought to have the patience to endure the final round? 2. Now that many of the older people have been vaccinated, the younger people are hungering to get their chance at the jab.  Since many of the Arab towns have surpluses because the population has opposed the vaccine, should the Jews go there for their jab?  If you go to the centers in the city early in the morning and register for the leftovers, and then come back around nine at night, you may have a chance – even if you’re just 40, because of the reluctance to waste the doses.  Is this fair?  Is it necessary?  4.  What will be the final situation – so many people who have lost their shops, their jobs, businesses that cannot be recovered?  Can we begin to determine how to reconstitute our livelihoods, our culture, our friends?

   

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so what’s new? 

we thought something would change at midnight.  I stood on the balcony with my granddaughter, waiting for illegal fireworks to mark the revolution of the year. 

but nothing happened.  

she had been exercising at rehearsal all day, preparing for the Japanese Olympics in 2021, and she was still recovering from an exhausting cold that turned out not to be corona.  She should have been in bed but it was particularly important for her to greet this year in which so much was going to happen for her. 

And there was no sign.  No difference.

let’s pray this doesn’t mean anything, that the new year will be a truly new beginning.  I know that the date of the new year is accidental, that it used to be the Ides of March for the world, and that it’s the first of Tishre for us, and all that, but – come on – right now January 1 is our big date now.  Brexit is not the only thing that’s happening today.

For us it was a regular Friday.  I tried answering some of the letters from the guests at the IAWE Zoom end of year party, but couldn’t even get to all of them.  Should you wish to get on our mailing list, let me know.  

 

 

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