Month: April 2009

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Our Day At En Gedi

The past three weeks have been hard on us here in Sderot. Not because of Kassams but because of illness. Four of us have been sick since the eighth of March. Stewart was the first to get sick with a lung infection, Moti was rushed to the hospital a day.
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The Gift Of Life

Every now and then you hear of a story, a situation that is hard to deal with.  We have come across many such stories, and the one we heard today is right up there. Elanete is married and a mother of four and just found out she is pregnant. She.
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Pesach Preperations

"Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.” Exodus 13:7 With Pesach being only a few days away, we need to start making preparation ourselves here at Hope for Sderot. We.
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Cease Fire Update

Once again this past week there was little in the Israeli news concerning the proposed cease fire between Hamas and Israel. There is though the continued defamation of Israel and its part in this past war with Hamas. UN Special Reporter Richard Falk charged Tuesday that Israel's military incursion into Gaza "was.
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Shabbat HaGadol

This Shabbat we celebrate what is called Shabbat HaGadol ("Great Shabbat") is on the Shabbat immediately before Passover. There is a special Haftarah reading on this Shabbat of the book of Malachi. Various reasons are given for the name of this Shabbat: 1) The Midrash Rabbah states: “When they (the.
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Psalm 127:1

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. “Unless the L-RD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the L-RD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.” Do you ever feel like you are spinning your wheel, like you are getting nowhere fast, could it be.
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