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Treppenwitz: Instant proof... no waiting!
Usually when commenters and I disagree over matters of opinion (e.g. over how the Israeli or international public might react under some set of hypothetical circumstances), we are left to agree to disagree.
After all, opinion is just that, and arguments...
Dateline: 2010-09-02 1:45am -07:00T (358 words)
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Treppenwitz: This may sound cynical, but...
Obviously I am upset about yesterday's terror attack. But I'm having trouble putting my finger on what is troubling me most.
There's the senseless loss of life. Four innocent people's lives were snuffed out as casually as you or I m...
Dateline: 2010-09-01 2:15am -07:00T (435 words)
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Treppenwitz: Four Israelis murdered by terrorists
Seriously... Are we really supposed to make peace with these people?!I rode my scooter past the site where the attack took place about an hour before it occurred. These four blameless people were guilty of nothing more than 'driving while jewish'...
Dateline: 2010-08-31 11:30am -07:00T (128 words)
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Treppenwitz: The Great Time-suck
Yes, the new iPad is a wonderful tool for keeping up with email, news, blogs, etc.. But it also is a fantastic way to read books, having access to not only Apple's own iBook inventory, but also to that of Amazon's Kindle. So, naturally I have ...
Dateline: 2010-08-30 4:15am -07:00T (278 words)
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Treppenwitz: Svelte
adjectivedefinition: attractively thin; gracefully slender.
Although I've always thought the word sounded vaguely Scandinavian, it is actually borrowed from the French 'svelte', and directly related to the Italian 'svelto', b...
Dateline: 2010-08-29 4:15am -07:00T (401 words)
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Treppenwitz: Bedbugs
It seems like nearly every day during the time we spent in the U.S. there was some kind of prominent news coverage of the latest scourge; bedbugs.
Apparently, these little parasites, which were largely wiped out in the developed world by heavy use of D...
Dateline: 2010-08-27 6:00am -07:00T (206 words)
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Treppenwitz: Overheard
The scene:
We spent this past Shabbat in Teaneck with our friends Shmiel and V.V.. In addtition to having an absolutely wonderful time with them, our friends Jordan and Marjorie were nice enough to invite us over to their home for the third meal on Shab...
Dateline: 2010-08-26 4:00am -07:00T (181 words)
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Treppenwitz: A special place in hell...
... should be reserved for the kind of people I am about to describe.
But first the [relatively] good news:
Our flight left New York at 5:50PM on Sunday afternoon. Or, more correctly, it pushed back from the gate at that time. But due to heavy rain...
Dateline: 2010-08-25 4:45am -07:00T (1944 words)
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Treppenwitz: Back. Finally.
We're back. A couple of stories to tell later on. But first a video that has me mesmerized:
[watch to the end]...
Dateline: 2010-08-24 3:45am -07:00T (22 words)
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Treppenwitz: Shopped out and homesick
It has been great seeing family... but I am so sick of shopping that if I don't see the inside of a store for another ten years, I'll be fine.Except an Apple store. I want an iPad so badly I can't even tell you how much will power it is ta...
Dateline: 2010-08-18 5:15pm -07:00T (71 words)
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Treppenwitz: The lost luggage saga
So the lost suitcase I mentioned earlier turns out to be anything but an isolated bit of bad luck on our part.My parents came in a few days later on the same airline (Austrian)... and they had two of their bags opt for separate vacations.Since landing, ev...
Dateline: 2010-08-15 6:30am -07:00T (512 words)
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Treppenwitz: Passing
In my last post I made a sarcastic reference to my parent's place in Westport as 'the family compound'... as if we were Kennedy's or something.The fact is, growing up in Connecticut one learns all the signaling behaviors required to be...
Dateline: 2010-08-11 11:00am -07:00T (589 words)
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Treppenwitz: Jetlagged
Flight from India to Israel landed on Friday... and the flight from Israel to New York (via Vienna) took off early Sunday morning. The flights to Europe and the U.S. were punctuated by my excited six year old sitting next to me alternating between lookin...
Dateline: 2010-08-09 5:15pm -07:00T (177 words)
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Treppenwitz: Israeli politics look strange from here
It must have been a mis-print... or perhaps I'm just tired.
But does anyone else find it just a tad ironic that Defense Minister and Labor Party chairman Ehud Barak announced that he is against deporting illegal immigrant children because, "expuls...
Dateline: 2010-08-04 9:45am -07:00T (61 words)
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Treppenwitz: Some favorite things
A couple of things I love about visiting India:
Jasmine. I love the smell of fresh Jasmine. And it is seemingly everywhere in Chennai (Madras). But best of all, here in the state of Tamil Nadu, many of the women walk around with fragrant strands of fr...
Dateline: 2010-08-03 10:00am -07:00T (188 words)
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