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Elms in the Yard: Guest Post: Irena Sendler and Life in a Jar
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Sunday, April 21, 2013. Guest Post: Irena Sendler and Life in a Jar. Although Holocaust Remembrance Day has passed this year, some memorial projects continue to run year-round. One such project is Life in a Jar. Which commemorates the courage of a Polish woman who has become known as the “female Oskar Schindler.”. In 1943, Sendler was captured by the Nazis. Imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to death, she never revealed any information about ̶...
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Elms in the Yard: July 2014
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Twenty thousand people, with you at their head —. Twenty thousand people are walking behind you, Sean,. In silence, carrying flowers:. Two sisters, twenty thousand brothers. Who came wearing scarves in the team colors,. And a young woman holding a flag. Who doesn’t know why she’s crying so much. When she’d never even known you. They came to thank you and to say goodbye,. To say that there’s no such thing as a lone soldier.
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Elms in the Yard: When bad behavior is kosher
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Friday, June 07, 2013. When bad behavior is kosher. This post originally ran on January 12, 2005.). 8220;What you’re doing is a sin! If you read the Torah here, God will never forgive you! He will not forgive you! I asked her, with a trace of humor, “Are you God, then? And what, I wondered, did this teacher feel about the pain of women who, for centuries, had been denied the opportunity to learn their own scriptures? In June 2004, as we arrived at the...
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Elms in the Yard: More than 60 years later, mystery solved
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Wednesday, May 07, 2014. More than 60 years later, mystery solved. In Mount Herzl’s military cemetery was a grave with a tombstone that bore the name “Yisrael Mir,” with little information besides. The man buried in that grave had been killed in the War of Independence, and had lain underneath that name for more than 60 years. The story (in Hebrew) is here. The English version (my translation) is below the jump. 8220; Yisrael Mir. April 30, 2013.
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Elms in the Yard: June 2014
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Thursday, June 12, 2014. Rabbi Akiva and the kaddish: What I wish we'd been taught. Most of us have heard or read the midrash that explains the Jewish custom of saying kaddish on behalf of the departed. (The story, with quite a bit of background, is here. Please read it first, and then come back to this page.). This is hardly surprising. The boy has been an outcast from infancy, made to pay for crimes committed by the parents he never knew. He...But t...
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Elms in the Yard: Twenty thousand brothers
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Twenty thousand people, with you at their head —. Twenty thousand people are walking behind you, Sean,. In silence, carrying flowers:. Two sisters, twenty thousand brothers. Who came wearing scarves in the team colors,. And a young woman holding a flag. Who doesn’t know why she’s crying so much. When she’d never even known you. They came to thank you and to say goodbye,. To say that there’s no such thing as a lone soldier.
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Elms in the Yard: A vet visit in the Hebrew month of Adar
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Tuesday, February 04, 2014. A vet visit in the Hebrew month of Adar. So I’m at the vet’s, and he’s giving my cat his annual exam. Weighing, shots, a look at his teeth, the works. Then he starts petting my cat. At first he’s all smiles, but then he gets all quiet. A moment later, I realize why. There’s no purr. Just. click. Click. Click. How long has it been since you heard him purr? 8221; I ask. “There’s such a thing? Posted by Rahel Jaskow. I'm a sin...
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Elms in the Yard: Hissing the difference
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Thursday, May 09, 2013. A frying pan is heated red-hot as part of the kashering process. One Shabbat many years ago, I was walking through the Haredi neighborhood of Geula on my way home from a meal. As I crossed a street, the sound of a hiss suddenly pierced the afternoon quiet. Eventually, I figured it out. I. As far as these girls were concerned — said their behavior — I did not belong in their neighborhood, not even if I went there for...But just ...
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Elms in the Yard: March 2014
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Monday, March 24, 2014. Dr Nechama Ben-Eliahu, 1935–2014. Activist, marine biologist, researcher, musician,. Long-time board member of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo,. Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem. And dear and beloved friend. Here is Nechama’s obituary from In Jerusalem, the local supplement of the Jerusalem Post. Posted by Rahel Jaskow. Monday, March 24, 2014. Monday, March 17, 2014. The women's Megilla reading at the First Station. A sweet little tiger:.
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Elms in the Yard: May 2014
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Elms in the Yard. Thoughts of a woman from Jerusalem. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The core of this story is true, though I have changed some details to protect privacy.). I asked, “Is your poem for the art journal? 8220;No,” she answered. “It’s just for me, until I decide where I want to send it.”. She hadn’t mentioned payment. I sent back an email telling her my rate. She didn’t reply. She emailed me again a few months later. 8221; she asked. 8220;I’m still swamped with work,” I answered. &...8220;Just rea...
