week in review

Week in Review with Gulls

Gulls in flight at Donaldson Park, a county park in Highland Park, New Jersey
Gulls in flight at Donaldson Park, a county park in Highland Park, New Jersey

On My Blog

Flowers, Trees, River and Brook, A Gull and Nature Notes:
Snowdrops
Purple, orange and a striped crocus
A green columbine
Raritan River and a brook
Nature Notes

Tech Posts:
What is SEO? (Search Engine Optimization)
WordPress Duplicate Comments Issue (an SEO issue)

Twitter:
Twitter for Local Business?
Parsha on Twitter

Sauteed Mushroom Salad

The White Rabbit Worries About the Time

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

A belated Mazel Tov to Mottel (who got engaged to Chana of Chicago)

For those cleaning for Pesach, here’s a funny and cute photo.

Amazing, beautiful watercolors by Carol Feldman

If you look at Eva Abreu’s Tour Schedule, you will see the Edison and Highland Park Libraries. I will be there, too…more on that soon!

Week in Review

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On My Blog

Today’s Flower: Forsythia
Ruby Tuesday Story

JPIX: A Feast of Photos from the JBlogosphere

Public History (congrats to Baila and Itzhak770, who correctly identified the seder location)

Hamantaschen Recipes

Link to Jack Day (Jack was one of the first to leave a comment on my blog last year, when I was a newbie blogger)

Winter Slaw (an easy, healthful dish, tastes good warm or room-temperature)

Networking Ideas (learn about my magical tree)

My New Toy

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

blue arrow near Route 446 near Baila's houseIlana-Davita has been quizzing every day with Purim questions. Great way to learn about Purim, the holiday Jewish people around the world will be celebrating next Monday night to Tuesday (and in Jerusalem and Shiloh, the celebration is Tuesday night and Wednesday. Find out why.)

Baila asks some difficult questions about living in Israel.

This week is Shabbat Zachor, in which we remember Amalek and what he did when the Israelites (old name for Jewish people) came out of Egypt.

Phiya Kushi writes of many people who have survived cancer with macrobiotics.

Coming soon to this blog: A Purim Word Find, and a special Purim Ruby Tuesday (and in between, the first spring flower I could find on my block)

My Weekly Review

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On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Blue Monday: Cat
Sepia Scenes: Is it the 1950’s?
Thursday Challenge: Pink

Haveil Havalim the Lots to Read Edition

What Do You See

WordPress Goodies

Twitter Basics for Librarians

Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal Photos (and a link to the recipe)

Sea Vegetables

Glass Houses (a parsha post)

I have a Whaddya See for book lovers scheduled for Saturday night…

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

Happy Birthday, Michelle
Ilana-Davita: A Few Thoughts on Commenting
Film Friday: Lego Editon (stop motion by son of Mrs. S.)

Web Design Trends 2009 (inspirational design)

Discover What Traditional Chinese Medicine Knows about Mushrooms

Two different cultures, similar issues:
An Abuse of Belief
Violence UnSilenced

A Weekly Review

I discovered the sepia setting on my camera on Wednesday night.
I discovered the sepia setting on my camera on Wednesday night.

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Sepia Scenes
Sky Watch

A Meaningful Tweet
How to Get the Most Out of Your 140 allowed characters on Twitter

Website Revamp
I redesigned my home page.

Creative Summer Programs
What would you like to do creatively?

Time Travel Flick
Enjoy my son’s movie about time travel through a dumpster time machine in Highland Park.

Who is Helping Whom?
I answered this in the comments. I have another one of these ‘What Do You See’ posts scheduled for Saturday night.

Elsewhere on the web

Why You Shouldn’t Eat Soy (a video)
What Soy Products are Healthy (another video)
New York Times: Twitter? It’s What You Make It

Haveil Havalim, the blog carnival of the Jewish blogosphere, will show up is now up on this blog on Sunday morning (that’s Sunday afternoon to those of you on the other side of the Atlantic).

The Weekly Review

No, none of these are my daughter.  But don't they look beautiful?
No, none of these girls are my daughter. But don't they look beautiful?

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Sepia Scenes
Sky Watch

What Is It? Oh, so that’s what it is!

Pick n Choose Macrobiotics

(take some ideas from this healthy diet and incorporate them in your own eating habits)

Fresh Tekka ( a recipe: you don’t need burdock or lotus to try it; carrots and onions alone can work!)

Unfriendly Neighborhoods

A Holiday for Trees

Gull Lessons

The History of a Bat-Mitzvah (parsha post; thanks for the birthday wishes!)

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

Mimi cooks a fish soup

Baila on Venezuela

Finally, a great geek joke emailed by a good friend (some SQL knowledge necessary)—>oy, this geek joke has gone missing. Sorry!

A Week on My Blog

Snowgirl, January 2009, built by two offspring of mine and a friend
Snowgirl, January 2009, built by two offspring of mine and a friend

On My Blog

Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Thursday Challenge: Cup (can anyone guess where this was taken?)
Sky Watch in the Berkshires

In Which My Son Makes Matzo Balls that are Light and Fluffy

Upcoming Highland Park Public Library Teen Film Festival

Healthy Anger

Parsha Posts:
Parsha Questions (there’s one at the bottom that has not yet been answered)
Symbol of the Moon in Judaism

Elsewhere on the Web

Letter from a Reserve Soldier

Autism, Vaccines and the CDC

Why We (Continue to) Pay Lavishly
(a friend now has a blog on Psychology Today)

I’ll leave you with some humor:
An Israeli Examines a Map of the United States
And Wonders Why the Midwest isn’t in the West

Weekly Review

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This week on my blog

Photo memes:
Today’s Flowers
Sky Watch
Thursday Challenge: Experimental

American Sycamore
(in which I learn the names of prominent trees on my block)

Award Thank Yous

What Do You See? (thanks to everyone who participated)

Parsha Post: Vaera

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

One by One: Standing Up to Terrorism
Phyllis Chesler writes of new Hindu-Jewish-Christian-Buddhist Coalition for Peace against Islamic terrorism.

Winnie-the-Pooh Day

New Research Confirms Vitamin D Blocks Formation of Breast Cancer

Weekly Review

Detail from Girl with Tulip watercolor
Detail from Girl with Tulip watercolor

This past week on my blog

Photo memes:
Today’s Flowers
Ruby Tuesday
Thursday Challenge: Many Books (book lovers seem to enjoy this photo)
Sky Watch

Snippets from Israel
Trying to Show Support

Transition to Exodus (parsha post)

Girl with Tulip (watercolor by me)

Ratatouille (a recipe for the hungry)

What Do You See
? (come play, it’s fun!)

Elsewhere on the Web

Natural News: Brussel Sprouts Defend Against All Types of Cancer
Dr. Mercola: Antibiotics Are More Dangerous Than You Thought

Israeli Kitchen: Pennies Towards Heaven

Israel Matzav: How Hamas Educates Gifted Children

Parsha (the weekly portion is Shmot or Shemot)
Ilana-Davita: Famous Torah Story
Lion in Zion: And She Called Him Moshe (read the comments)

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Another Week Passes

Downtown Nahariya, Northern Israel, June 2008
Downtown Nahariya, Northern Israel, June 2008

I woke up yesterday morning with the news that Katyusha rockets had hit Northern Israel. It seems like the rockets landed in Nahariya, a bustling little town with a pretty waterfront that is south of Rosh HaNikra. One rocket hit a retirement home. We visited Naharia last June: my kids ate pizza, and I bought a salad across the street (my husband probably wasn’t hungry). Why am I talking about food? Isn’t that easier to talk about than war, self-defense, media bias, Islamic fanaticism?

Here’s what I blogged about this past week

Photo memes:
Sky Watch in New Brunswick
Ruby Tuesday Contrasts
Today’s Flowers in Winter

On Israel:
Focused On Israel
Mothers of Soldiers
Baila, who lives in Modi’in, Israel, wrote on my Focused On Israel post:

It will only be a relief if the job is done, Leora. If Hamas continues to throw rockets at our cities, Israel must continue to respond.

Matzo Ball Recipe

A Sweet Angel Song
The song is one that is in this week’s parsha of Vayechi. There is a chapter in Ancient Secrets by Rabbi Levi Meier, z”l, called the “Art of Dying.” It is about Yaakov on his death bed, and what we can learn about dying from Yaakov. However, I couldn’t bear to write about dying. But I did want to mention that chapter.

Noteworthy (to me) in the Greater Blogosphere

Images They Show

The Day the War Started

Oh, What A Wonderful Friendly World We Live In (Just Kidding)
(not the real title of the post, but close)

Ilana-Davita learns from Yaakov: “children are different and that [Yaakov] can’t have the same expectations from all of them.”

And I’ll leave with a link to Jack.

What a Week

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On my blog

Sufganiyot = Doughnuts
On Saturday night we learned that after 8 years of suffering under rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel has struck back. This rather colored my week, as I anxiously think of family, friends and my people.

Memories of Mums in Watercolor

Today’s Flowers: Dianthus in the Snow
Today’s Flowers seemed to be on vacation last week, but feel free to visit the post that I left up.

My World in Donaldson Park
and
Watery Wednesday in Donaldson Park

Watcha Reading?

Intro to Twitter

Sepia Scenes: Ballet

A Woman named Serah (parsha post)

Sky Watch: My Daughter’s Sunrise

Thanks and Recognition

Let’s Play Pretend (please watch this short video about war if you haven’t already. thank you).

Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

Seraphic Secret, the self-anointed Bob Hope of the Gaza War, has his 10 best movies of 2008 (from Hollywood’s Golden Age). Here’s part one of his picks. I must check these at some point: when movies were movies!

I wish I didn’t have to link to Jack’s latest post of Gaza War links. (that’s the 6th)

Esser Agaroth has a much shorter list of Gaza Updates.

Zivans in Israel report on the “situation“.

West Bank Mama is a good teacher.

And more sad news…

Michelle at Rambling Woods reported that one of her blogger friends lost her husband suddenly.

Janet at Fond of Snape lost her dear father.

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