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A Soldier's Mother: Who firebombs a grave?
It's an amazing concept. Why would someone firebomb a grave...and an ancient one at that?I just read a news article that Arabs have thrown 290 firebombs (and or planted explosive devices) at Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem in the last six months alone (that do...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:47pm -07:00T (1578 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: That's Just Sad...
It's a fact that I'm a disappointment to my sons. I am, without doubt, completely car-illiterate. Worse, I have this notion that you can credibly identify cars by color rather than make and model. So, as Shmulik and Davidi go about their lives, there is a...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 9:32am -07:00T (854 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Ceremony of the Tank Division
Here's a great video - only 5 minutes long but worth watching. It's the induction ceremony of Yonatan Gordon. His father is a talented writer, editor, etc. He posted the video to YouTube and it includes English subtitles to help those of you who don't und...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 10:17pm -07:00T (106 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: In Appreciation - Israel (and a bit on BBC)
I'm in a holding pattern with this blog. Not much to write about in terms of being a soldier's mother because thankfully, my sons are home - two with their wives; another happily and unhappily studying away in high school. Yaakov is coming home this summe...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 10:17pm -07:00T (1475 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: A Message to Ahmadinejad
A few years ago, I saw a video of a most amazing young man who was brave enough to walk in the midst of an Arab demonstration and stand for the truth. The young man's name is Daniel and he is of Persian (Iranian) descent. He took to the streets with an Is...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 1:02pm -07:00T (220 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Being Intellectually Honest - Professor Stephen Hawking
Last July, I went to the President's Conference in Jerusalem, invited as a blogger and treated with such respect. My political agenda is pretty obvious to anyone who takes the time to read about my writings. I am, if nothing else, intellectually honest in...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 11:32pm -07:00T (649 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Will Mohammed come to the Mountain?
If you haven't read the previous post, please click here.This is the update to the Mohammed and the Router story...otherwise known as "When is a messenger not a messenger?UPDATE: It's now 12:20 p.m. in Israel - three hours after this story began. Mohammed...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 2:32am -07:00T (499 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: When is a messenger...not a messenger?
So, my company has jumped from 10 MB for Internet to 100 MB. To do this, we need new routers. The deal was made - they'd bring two today and take back one. I got a call from the delivery person - he's bringing it now! How exciting.Wait, he wants us to com...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 1:17am -07:00T (944 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Neo-Nazis on Twitter
I woke before dawn today, a bit disoriented and very tired. I need to avoid the traffic because, yeah...I've abused my arm enough and driving isn't the easiest of things to do. I've got two working arms, but one that needs babying a bit. It's kind of funn...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 10:17am -07:00T (2101 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Jerusalem Day - 1967 - 2013 and Forever
Today is Yom Yerushalayim - the 46th we have celebrated since the reunification of Jerusalem. From 1948 - 1967, Jews were barred from the Old City, from the Kotel and the Temple Mount - that was how the Jordanians and the local Arab population dealt with ...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 4:17am -07:00T (1208 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Kobayashi Maru
If you aren't a Star Trek fan, you might not know about the Kobyashi Maru test. I don't doubt that someone (or more) has written an entire doctoral thesis on the Kobyashi Maru test. What it is - simply - is an impossible situation in which there can be no...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 3:02am -07:00T (305 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: So Yaakov's Coming Home...
I have this amazing slideshow going on my laptop - it's got a bunch of family pictures - from various weddings, bar mitzvah celebrations - from infancy in some cases, to marriage and motherhood in one case. One of the pictures...is...well...this one...And...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 9:47am -07:00T (300 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: UNIFIL forces in Lebanon Report
UNIFIL...um...United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon...was founded in 1978. They had several tasks - most of which, it seems, they have failed. The only one I think they really succeeded in completing was watching over the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 7:32am -07:00T (214 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Five more orphans....
This morning, I had to go to work in Herziliya at a client's site. About 10 days ago, I fell and hurt my arm. Mobility is a bit limited (and yes, I need to make an appointment for an ultrasound and I need to make an appointment to do physical therapy...) ...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 9:32am -07:00T (736 words)
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A Soldier's Mother: Five Facts about the Israel Air Force...
How many of these did you know already?
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Dateline: 2013-04-28 7:47am -07:00T (8 words)
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