Hollyhocks and Petunias
Hollyhocks looked lovely last summer at Longstreet Farm.
Red petunias scrambled across my front lawn in August 2010.
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Mrs. S. Cooks Up KCC
Mrs. S. hosts the Kosher Cooking Carnival for the first month of Adar (we have two this year – extra happiness). There’s tamarind date cake, eggplant filled with bulghur, lemonade, brownies, creamy parsnip soup and more.
Stratton Window
The inn we stayed in at Stratton Mountain in Vermont had a large, tall window in the cozy room with the fireplace. My daughter and I had fun hanging out in this room. You may see that rug again for Ruby Tuesday (if I’m not too crazed with work on a Monday). I took these shots with my daughter’s Canon Power Shot Elph – the quality isn’t as good as that of my old, larger Power Shot, but the camera is a great, flat size. Good enough to share.
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Shameful Rutgers Event
I usually try to reserve upbeat local events for my blog. Unfortunately, an upsetting, appalling event occurred last night at Rutgers University.
To quote Aaron Marcus, Rutgers student leader: “”We wanted to protest this event because as the children and grandchildren of victims of the Holocaust we believed it to be absolutely absurd to compare Israeli act of self defense to the viscous, systematic murder of millions of Jews, Catholics, Gays, Gypsies, Russians and others.”
Watch the videos on Challah Hu Akbar:
Rutgers University Event Bans Jewish Students and Community Members
Videos with commentary on Jake Binstein’s blog:
BAKA Lies
Learn more on JoshuaPundit:
Rutgers Puts Apartheid Against Jews Into Practice
A Statement by StandWithUs:
STANDWITHUS DEPLORES ANTI-JEWISH DISCRIMINATION AT RUTGERS “NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE” EVENT, APPLAUDS PRO-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS’ STRONG RESPONSE
Rutgers student organization BAKA (Students United for Middle Eastern Justice) sponsored the presumably public event, but when it became apparent that pro-Israel attendees would outnumber BAKA sympathizers by almost four to one, the organizers became alarmed. “There are so many Jews here,” exclaimed one BAKA member who was wearing a “Smash Israeli Apartheid” T-shirt.
To end this post with an upbeat, local event, here’s one of my son the filmmaker’s videos that may appear in the Highland Park Public Library Teen Film Festival on February 6:
Philadelphia Zoo Bridge
Last October we passed this rhinoceros painting under the bridge next to the Philadelphia Zoo.
Here is the outside of the bridge with animal paintings.
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