A Thousand Words
In the photograph, two very young girls are sitting next to each other on a sofa. One is going on four and the other a toddler less than two years of age. The older one, while sucking on her milk … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Family
Israel Summer 2004
Daniel Bar Mitvah Reception – דניאל בר מצווה Google Photos
Daniel’s Bar Mitzvah Reception דניאל בר מצווה
Sibling’s Words to Daniel Parent’s Words to Daniel סיור בירושלים בעקבות הפורמנים ועליה לתורה בכותל
Siblings Words to Daniel
Full media coverage אוסמו בר-מצווה ביום זה בו אנו חוגגים לך בר-מצווה נדבוק במסורת וננצל את ההזדמנות לומר כמה מילות ברכה. אני חייבת להתוודות, כאשר שמעתי את הבשורות הטובות נשאלתי אם אני רוצה אח או אחות. מייד עניתי כי אחות … Continue reading
Tal’s Homestead Graduation
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Evolution of Educating (or Daniel’s Bar Mitzvah Tales)
Full media coverage Daniel was born a few weeks after Yeela’s spelling test. Very few families remember a spelling test that took place thirteen years prior. We remember because it was the first and last time that I ‘helped’ Yeela … Continue reading
Tal’s Prom
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Yeela is an Officer סיום קורס קצינים
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Guiding Love
Showing sentiment towards the opposite sex is a challenge for eleven years old boys. At such an age one is expected to prefer one’s masculine clan and shun girls without remorse. Relations between the sexes at this age is a … Continue reading
Memories
Twins: I don’t know why I remember one particular topic which my twin sister and I argued about. We paid our dues to disagreements and head butting on a daily basis. The topics were as simple and as universal as … Continue reading
Amitai’s Eleventh Birthday
On a chilly afternoon, Imma organized an ‘Astro Jump’ at Ortega Park. Some food and drinks were spread on the tables in the picnic area. Tintin was not too impressed. Tintin’s pictures are the last with a short haircut for … Continue reading
Teaching by Example
He was born in Jerusalem and lived in the city all his life. As a teenager he fought in the independence war the city’s life and death struggle with the Jordanian Legion. The legion dealt the Jewish defenders of the … Continue reading
Yeela Fast Forward
My shift with my baby daughter, Ye-ela, started every day at 2:30 PM. Ima (mom) and I had decided that we would raise her without the help of babysitters until she was old enough to talk. The daily passing of … Continue reading
Paris Summer 2003
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Israel Summer 2003
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Farewell to FUF
Yeela from Zero to Nineteen
Tal’s Year Book
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Spring Cleaning
With spring upon us the time was right to ‘make some changes’. Not that I could ever understand why this has to happen every spring, (‘we changed that sofa last spring’) but that’s just the way it is. This year … Continue reading
Why am I Here
Yeela speaks at the world wide convention of Jewish organizations in Jerusalem In Israel, when two strangers chat on the street, they will always try to find how they’re connected. If they’re civilians, the first question following the introduction … Continue reading