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The older I get, I’m getting in touch with my feelings more and more. It’s a good thing. For me Yom HaShoah is really powerful. It’s interesting that I am so affected by this day because I never met a real live Jewish person until I was 16 and I don’t remember where/how my understanding […]

On Day six of our trip to Georgia, we left Tbilisi for an overnight trip to Oni. I stole this map from the website of some folks that live in Oni (I do not live in Oni.):

We picked up some breakfast items at the market in Tbilisi.

We stopped at a roadside fruit stand.

We bought bread […]

Yeah, it’s Spring.

The lounging lizards were on our office window sill. I seriously need to clean it! The vine you can see by the lizards is jasmine. It makes our apartment smell wonderful on summer nights.

From The Jerusalem Post (I know, I know!):
First, Jews of the priestly class were instructed to veer left after a cave housing centuries-old ancient graves was uncovered underneath the city’s main north-south road.
Next, work on Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance was abruptly stopped after an ancient Muslim cemetery was found on the site, and Islamic leaders […]

Day 5 was a day of extremes. We left Tbilisi after breakfast and headed out on the Georgian Military Highway. From http://www.silkroadandbeyond.co.uk/ regarding the GMH: This is the main road running for 220km from Tbilisi to Vadikavkaz in Russia. This route actually dates from before the 1st century BC and is still important as one […]