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Well, not much has changed in the past week. We have found a new apartment for Older Son & his Ladyfriend. Older Son actually went to the Zoom meeting with the Small Business Administration course. The supermarkets here are all hiring extra workers to fill the online orders ahead of our fall...

Mrs. 200Meters and I are not on Facebook, Twitter / X, Instagram, TikTok, etc, and do not feel our lives are lacking in anyway. Too often Facebook becomes Inyourfacebook where the rules of courtesy and basic decency, to say nothing of libel, go out the window. Not to be snobby but we'll pass.

Hi Nandina! The woman playing the guitar is Rona Kenan. She sings alot of modern Israeli folk. The other woman, who only sings, is Maureen Nehedar. She emigrated from Iran & sings alot of Persian Jewish hymns, and religious-themed songs, in both Parsi & Hebrew. They're both on YouTube but sing...

Postscript... Our holydays are coming up. I came across this take, by two local artists, of a classic Leonard Cohen song (which is based on this Jewish prayer). The line "Who by very slow decay" is haunting me. 200Meters

Hi Beta Good luck. You & Josh will be in my prayers. They've got to come right sooner or later, I hope. 200Meters

In my last post, almost 3.5 years ago, I posted: "I just turned 57 last Saturday (on both the civil & Hebrew calendars; the dates coincide every 19 years). I (tenured civil servant) will have to retire in 10 years. How exciting. Apart from my (altogether blessed) marriage (the center of my...

Today is Israel's 72nd Independence Day. By mid-afternoon, a pall of barbecue smoke will hang over the country, although from people's yards & balconies, and not from the city parks, national parks, nature reserves & beaches, which are all closed thanks to corona. Mrs. 200Meters & I will be...

1) Ouch 2) Yup. When Mrs. 200Meters and I (coming up on 31.5 amazing years together...Mmmm) first started out with the parenting thing, in no way did we, or could we, envision what has, in fact, happened. My brother's daughters are turning out to be the kind of fine young women that he and our...

Hi all! Not much news. Youngest will be serving his full, shortened, sentence. He'll be out in about 6 weeks. He is upset at the guards about something and claims he is on a hunger strike. As a great man once said, yeah, right. He asked us to call the prison and communicate some message. Yeah...

You got the Flu Klux Klan in your state? As much as I loathe Netanyahu, at least he hasn't called on our medical authorities to look into ingesting bleach.

The death toll is up to 108. Schools might reopen in a very modest way next week. Stuff has begun to reopen although the rules are illogical, contradictory and full of holes. The above notwithstanding, our (72nd) Independence Day starts at sunset, in a few hours, and runs until sunset...

Allow me to add my prayers too!

I am waiting here in the line to get into the supermarket at the mall here in our Jetusalem 'burb. Everyone is wearing a mask of some sort and is not standing too close to the people ahead of them or behind them. The supermarket is carefully limiting how many people can be inside at the same...

"When freedom is taken for granted, it has already begun to be lost." UK Chief Rabbi Emeritus Lord Jonathan Sacks "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin

Good luck joysheph. I dread getting to where you are with your son with our Oldest one day.

Thanks. There is no news of any note. Youngest is still in the clink. He says that having to be there for the first night of Passover was kind of depressing. He sounded depressed when we spoke to him the following day. I suppose that's good. If he is miserable enough about his predicament maybe...

I posted too soon. We have 23 dead.

Well... Youngest is still in the clink. He will be spending his second Passover there. On May 22, I posted: Youngest has now warmed to this idea, even though in the time between his projected early release and when he would have been released had he served his (now shortened) 8-month term...

Israel is now up to 5,591 cases and 22 dead. I have been declared an "essential worker who works from home" so I have been busy. Mrs. 200Meters is working a bit but is otherwise on paid leave; luckily for us, she has a ton of vacation days. We have been getting a leg up on our Passover...

BusynMember, you are in my prayers! Be well and be healthy!