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Shira: A Poet's Diary: February 2010
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Shira: A Poet's Diary. Sunday, February 21, 2010. It is said that with the coming of the Hebrew month, Adar, we are joyous. Esther was able with the help of her brother Mordechai to foil Haman's plans by disclosing them to the king at a feast which she organized. And s. Last week at my grandchildrens' school each class chose a Purim family theme and went with it. On Monday, the first graders all dressed up as grandmothers, the second grade as teenagers, the third grade as babies, the fourth grade as ...
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Shira: A Poet's Diary: April 2010
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Shira: A Poet's Diary. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The Walls Fall - May 1967 Jerusalem. When I first took the bus that climbed the hills from Tel Aviv to the then divided city of Jerusalem I was nineteen. My first glimpse from afar of the legendary city that my people had dreamed of for two thousand years was breathtaking. I was enchanted and I knew it would be my home. My parents married in pre-State Israel, then called Palestine. Again, as in 1948, Israel was not destroyed by the invading Arab armies bu...
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Shira: A Poet's Diary: January 2010
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Shira: A Poet's Diary. Sunday, January 31, 2010. The mystery of siblings, raised by the same parents, who are different yet the same fascinates me. I observe my own grandchildren, raised by my son and daughter in law here in Jerusalem, and wonder at how different each is, although they share the same way of life and values. I was raised in a home spiritually rich and economically struggling, but the refrigerator was always full. Born into the first elevator house in the Bronx, as soon as I knew myself my...
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Anna Evans book,. Sisters and Courtesans,. Published by Kelsay Books White Violet Press (May 2014), is available through Amazon, or the author's webpage, annamevans.com/sandc.htm. The poems, in sonnet form, each tell a story of a woman in a unique situation: aboard a prison ship bound for Australia; a Victorian streetwalker; a nun and a noblewoman working together to save Jewish children. A great worthwhile read. Self-Portrait as Bettie Page. By Tiel Aisha Ansari,. By Quincy R. Lehr, and. Amazon link : a...
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JOYous CHAI LIGHTS January, February 2010: December 2009
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JOY Krauthammer, MBA. View my complete profile. JOYous CHAI LIGHTS,. January and February 2010, Tevet, Shvat 5770. Honor the BIRTHDAY (New Year) of the TREES. 15 Shevat - Jan. 30. Kabbalistic TU B'SHVAT SEDERS. I'll be happy to come 2 U and lead a TREE Meditation,. And give out free baby fig trees. Contact me. On Tu B'Shvat we celebrate the Divine Tree of Life, and the renewal. Of the flow of G*d's creative power and energy into our world. G*d's ripe and new growing grapefruit crop together. To my childr...
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JOYous CHAI LIGHTS March April 2010: February 2010
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JOY Krauthammer, MBA. View my complete profile. JOYous CHAI LIGHTS March April 2010. IT'S ADAR and here comes. March, April 2010 Adar, Nissan, Iyar 5770. SEDER Table by Joy Krauthammer (c) 1981 rev. 2010. Added: Sephirot to Seder plate and Matzot, Chazeret, Kos Miriyahm, Orange, 4 Children. Relevancy: Mitzrayims and Plagues. And AriZal Seder Plate. Any thoughts for next year's revision? Double Joyous Chai Light. Please continue to make daily healing prayers for soul and body, Mi-Sheberach. March 7 * for.
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Shira: A Poet's Diary: June 2010
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Shira: A Poet's Diary. Sunday, June 20, 2010. The gift of Music. Due to technical difficulties. . . . I have been locked out of my electronic fix for almost two months. So hello once again! I would like to talk about the great joy of music which has been my "high" all my life. How lucky to live in a time of free access to music, to have experienced the miracles of radio, TV, records, tapes, CDs, and the countless electronic musical babies being born every minute, a source of constant excitement. When I w...
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Shira: A Poet's Diary: Time to talk about Cats
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Shira: A Poet's Diary. Monday, October 18, 2010. Time to talk about Cats. I grew up in a Chassidic home. Following in the foot steps of King David in Psalms,. So it was natural for me when making my home in Jerusalem to raise a dog and then her beautiful girl pup and later two cats. The latter came about when running up and down eight flights of stairs to walk the dog became a necessity after my son - the dog walker- got married Thank God. Here is a poem from my new collection, "Tales of Love and Exile".
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Shira: A Poet's Diary: Lament for Jerusalem
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Shira: A Poet's Diary. Sunday, July 25, 2010. The story goes that Napoleon when told about this Jewish fast day said that a people who recall the exile from their land thousands of years past are destined to return home. The first Zionist? The following poem-story appears in my English language collection, "Poems of Love and Exile.". In the year 70 AD Titus's army. Set up camps on Mount Scopus. And the Mount of Olives. That overlook the Temple Mount,. Dragging great wooden posts. Red on the Temple Mount.