so what you do is print both pictures on one page – one on the front, one on the back. Then you fold the page into three so that I is on top and it follows the order of the roman numerals. See if it works for you and let me know.
for Valentines Day – A poetic Experiment Read Post »
Yitzchak Herzog has been saying it all along, and tonight he will make a public plea on tv – there must be a dialogue in the government and a mutual agreement has to be reached. The polls say that more than 60 % of the people are against the legal reform and only 24% are for it. It can’t be foisted on the people.
president speaks at 8 – feb 12, 2023 Read Post »
Oy, did I have plans for the next two days – There was a meeting with an editor about the galleys of a little book coming out in Hebrew, a gym class, the book club this evening. Then tomorrow to Baka to examine the university there and plan a lecture series, and in the evening to meet with my long-time girlfriends for a good gossip session. All that full dance card was erased by a debilitating cough and weakness that has left me unable to get out of bed. unable to reason, and unwilling to consider politics.
but why wasn’t even planning to go to the demonstration in Jerusalem tomorrow, you ask? Everyone else I know is going, but I’d promised to go to Baka Al Gharbia, and I think that cooperation is as important as resistance. Without positive movement toward mutual understanding, the demonstrations mean little.
But in the end, I will be lying in bed and watching it all on tv…
Plans – Feb 12, 2023 Read Post »
I’m not going tonight. My body still aches and I’m afraid I’ll faint. My heart is there, though. Yesterday my kids went on the march of army reservists, and the others were demonstrating somewhere else. I’ll report upon tonight, though.
if i make it through the day…
demonstration – feb 11, 2023 Read Post »
As we settle to watch our favorite satire show on tv, the news breaks in of a terror attack in Ramat in Jerusalem, with many victims. A six-year-old boy dead, many others wounded, The name of the driver of the car from East Jerusalem that rammed into a bus and fired his gun was announced almost immediately. The newscaster is Moslem, and he is now interviewing the medical staff treating the victims – the staff I am sure is also comprised of people of mixed religions. Suleiman, the broadcaster, seems to be having a bit of trouble keeping his reportage cool – as a human being he is mortified by the fact that the victims may be of the same family, that they were off to rest on Shabbat. His sympathies are clearly with the victims and not with the youthful assassin –
The unfolding tragedies remind us of the multiple complexities of our situation.
terror – feb 10, 2023 Read Post »
At 7:45 my daughter called to remind us to turn off the electricity at 8. The idea was that the national drop in electricity would signal to the government the opposition of the people of Israel to the destruction of the high courts.
I wouldn’t have remembered, and a lot of people might not have daughters to remind them. I’m still waiting for the results…
lights Out – feb 9, 2023 Read Post »
Tiberias is in danger of collapsing – the recent earthquakes today and yesterday are threatening certain areas of Israel, plans for a potential violent earthquake in Tel Aviv have never been finalized, and what are they talking about in the Knesset? the new proposal today threatening six months imprisonment for wearing improper clothing at the Wailing Wall.
It is our version of Chelm. Maybe we should propose, as they did in Chelm, two prisons – one for those Parliament members who admit they are guilty and another for those who claim to be innocent.
But to prison they must all go.
local earthquakes, etc. -feb 9, 2023 Read Post »
The number of people who have been rescued in Turkey makes me wonder who else is down there waiting to be saved or to die. I fear that in Syria we can’t do much good – since access to the Kurdish area is blocked off. Each individual is incredibly important and must be fought for.
Yes, we’ve sent people there to help, but at the same time, we’re waking up to the fact that we’re just as vulnerable to earthquakes as they are.
About 20 years ago I got a terrible premonition that we were due for an earthquake, and pushed our neighbors into allowing a strengthening of the base of our building. It looks ugly, and it may not save us, but it allows some of us to sleep at night.
rescue – feb 8, 2023 Read Post »
