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      by Batya Medad
      A Unique Perspective by Batya Medad of Shiloh
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      Batya Medad made aliya from New York to Israel in 1970 and has been living in Shiloh since 1981. Recently she began organizing women's visits to Tel Shiloh for Psalms and prayers. (For more information, please email her.)  Batya is a newspaper and magazine columnist, a veteran jblogger and recently stopped EFL teaching.  She's also a wife, mother, grandmother, photographer and HolyLand hitchhiker, always seeing things from her own very unique perspective. For more of Batya's writings and photos, check out:

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      Tishrei 30, 5768, 10/12/2007

      Getting Ready for A Simcha


      Baruch Hashem!

      A first grandson after two granddaughters!  We had three daughters before our two sons were born.  They should all be healthy.

      "Nu?  What?  No politics?" You ask. "But this is Arutz 7!"

      Well, here in the eye of the storm, where our every breath is a political statement, adding another Jewish soul to the world, celebrating G-d's miracles is considered political.

      The nearby Arabs are building mansions, and we're condemned for planting trees.  Foreign "peace" volunteers and dangerously perverse-thinking Israelis think nothing of destroying anything Jewish.

      But we know we will win in the end.  The question is... when will what be?  So we celebrate G-d's miracles.

      Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov