They Haven't Called

I blogged my joy on Shiloh Musings at the agreement between Hatikvah, Tekuma and other Land of Israel  faithful to run on a joint list, the renewed National Union,  in the upcoming Israeli Elections.  I sent out the link with, hint!  Hint! my phone number and an offer to help.  No call yet.
Just please don't ask me to bake cakes.

No, I'm not expecting to be the "female on the list." Who would vote for me?

In a small political party, anyone who thinks they deserve to run for Knesset should bring a nice big dowry  of supporters to vote for the party.

I've been involved in various Israeli political groups over the 38 plus years we're here in Israel.  When we were new off the boat, yes, literally, since we made aliyah by boat, my husband and I went to a young Cherut meetng.  That predated the Likud.  They went around the room listening to everyone's opinion.  I worked hard formulating my thought in Hebrew in my head, but they skipped me.  I was the only female there, and I guess they thought I was just a silent partner.

About a year later we heard of English-Speaking Cherut, so I joined that.  Nobody stoped me from talking, but they usually asked me what my husband thought.  The same questions were aked of my in English-speaking T'chiah, so I left politics for a number of years. 

But I never stopped observing it.  And in recent years, I blog about it.

Now I'd be very happy to get out the votes for the renewed National Union.  Just please don't ask me to bake cakes.

No Santa Claus, No Tooth Fairy, Other Myths Demolished

I'm pretty confident that none of you believe in Santa or the Tooth Fairy. But did you you get all weepy when reading that moving story of the little boy imprisoned during the Holocaust who was given an apple a day by a sweet little girl, and then they met up again in America and married? Well,add that to Rudolf and Santa's Elves. It's fake, too.

Another con is the Olmert-Livni-Barak Troika's war. No doubt that it will cause death and injury, just like a real one. But like the Olmert-Livni-Peretz war of two and a half years ago, it doesn't have a clear aim. It's not out to destroy our enemies, just get the troika elected. Olmert keeps stressing that he has nothing against the Pseudistinian people, just the terrorists, as if the terrorists came from Mars. That's why the Israeli government has been shtupping them with food like some nutty Yiddishe mamma.

And now I'd like to ask your opinion. What do you think of this picture?

I took it from last night's Jerusalem Post site. 

Creating A Dream

My orignal plan for this post was to discuss the repercussions of the Madoff con, the Ponzi scheme, financial scandal. I had just read of the suicide of Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, who had lost over a billion dollars, not all of it even his. This may not be the first.

In the beginning of the movie Seabiscuit, the narrator explains that immediately after the Stock Market crashed
the creation of a logo for Nefesh B'Nefesh that inspired them to make aliyah
people didn't jump out the windows, it took a while for the reality to hit.  So, who knows what the final price will be?  That's why I nominated Bernie Madoff for the 2nd Annual Self-Hating Jew Award.

I see this like the ripples on the face of the water after a stone is thrown in.

Now, l'havdil, something very different,  I'd like to think of something good having that ripple effect.

Nefesh B'Nefesh is advertising a new logo contest.

It's for students, Grades 4-7, and I'd like to think that trying to create a logo for an organization that promotes aliyah, moving to Israel, will make a great, positive impression on these young children.  The "ripple effect" should inspire them to live here in our HolyLand.

I'd love to hear in five, ten, twenty years from now, olim chadashim, new immigrants to Israel, telling one and all that it was the creation of a logo for Nefesh B'Nefesh that inspired them to make aliyah.