http://imshin.net Old template suddenly disappeared. Working on it (provincially). Bish says this is a good opportunity for a change. Mon, 05 May 2008 19:49:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Treppenwitz addresses the problematic situation of the ultra-religious owning religion (and marriage and divorce and death and…) in this country. Tell us about it. The humiliation of sinners like us in the Rabbinate when attempting to tie the knot… don’t even get me started on that. And Bish and I ... http://imshin.net/?p=857 Growing up as an Olah Hadasha (new immigrant) in Israel, I looked up at my tanned, cocky, assured Sabra friends. I think I’ve told you that only recently have I realized that most of those kids were the children of Holocaust survivors. Here is the story of the father of ... http://imshin.net/?p=856 So apparently someone sent in my whine whine whine post in to this week’s Haveil Havalim, which is a funny if somewhat quirky name for a Jewish and Israeli blog summary. So you can pop over there and see what else they’ve got. Oh, and thank you, whoever it was. http://imshin.net/?p=855 A comment on politics, in the event of PM Olmert’s latest scrape: “Once the trees went to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’ But the olive tree replied,’Have I, through whom God and men are honored, stopped yielding my rich oil, that I ... http://imshin.net/?p=854 Unlike the those Christmas Tree Jews of the British Isles I was discussing the other day, Israeli Jews are not ashamed of being Jewish. Israeli Jews are proud, on the whole, of being Jewish. Well a few of them aren’t - usually those with strong ties with anti-Zionist ideologues outside ... http://imshin.net/?p=853 http://imshin.net/?p=852 Yom HaShoah 5768 http://imshin.net/?p=851 Yair Lapid explains why things are not nearly as bad as some would have it. He does this in Ynet, online edition of Israel’s main newspaper, Yediot Aharonot. [For your information, Haaretz is definitely not Israel’s main newspaper, although I read it was on a certain foreign site recently, as ... http://imshin.net/?p=848 Our Sis introduced me to Guardian Limited’s token Jewish podcast. Nu, with Jews like this, the Jewish people aren’t going to last long. With Jews like this, Moshe Rabeinu (sadly missed at the Seder table, this year and every year) is turning in his unknown grave! The first episode has token ... http://imshin.net/?p=847 The duck is coming! http://imshin.net/?p=846