Tag Archives: wedding

Shabbat Chatan and Sheva Brachot and the missing keys

Posted on 6 November 2012 by

One last post about the wedding and its associated celebrations and then I’ll be back to normal programming.  (Apologies to those of you who’ve been expecting some political blogging this past week. I’ve been so out of it that I … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday – and Wedding Photos!

Posted on 2 November 2012 by

Here is this week’s Good News Friday installment – including wedding photos! First, the news items. The Wall Street Journal reports on the outstanding international success of Israel’s start-ups (h/t David): It is hard not to be impressed by the … Continue reading →

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Wedding Day!

Posted on 31 October 2012 by

Those of you who have been paying attention will have noticed a countdown timer in my right-hand sidebar, marking the passing days until Vered’s wedding. Well, the great day has finally arrived and I’m having a hard time trying to … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 26 October 2012 by

More in my Good News Friday series. My first item for this week is slightly frivolous, and yet it has more important implications for the anti-BDS campaigners:  Israeli designer Kobi Levy’s highly unusual, not to say eccentric, shoes are begin … Continue reading →

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Mazal tov! Our daughter got engaged!

Posted on 2 July 2012 by

We are delighted to announce that “daughter in PT” got engaged tonight to her lovely young man who hails from Dimona. Yeah, the town with the nuclear reactor. No, he doesn’t glow in the dark.  I asked. His family is … Continue reading →

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An Australian-South African wedding in Israel

Posted on 13 April 2011 by

It’s not often that one attends a wedding in Israel which is run in its entirety in English. In fact the last such wedding was probably our own, over 30 years ago!  But that is exactly what we found last … Continue reading →

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