Quotation of the day...

In Haaretz today we can read that Khaled Mechaal is denying Hamas targets schools and kindergardens, this happens because Qassam rockets are too primitive!

"We didn't attack a kindergarten. We have primitive weapons. I ask the international community and the Americans to give us more advanced weapons so we can shoot more accurately."

No It's not a joke, and this statement is made just a few weeks after the massacre in Mercaz Harav in Jerusalem where a Palestinian terrorist killed 9 children with a Kalachnikof.

waiting for good news again...

Our hebrew teacher is fantastic, really, he's an artist. Before I enjoyed going to the Oulpan, now I love it. The group is still very mixed, the youngest girl is about twenty and the oldest man is about 70 I guess. Little by little people tell their story. One couple are just married and want to start their new life in Israel, another family wants to live closer to G*d and has bought a house on the hills south of Jerusalem. Even if our reasons are different we are all full of hope to find the happiness we're looking for and eager to settle down in this little piece of land that we love.

I got an email today and some hope to find an appartement where I want. I'm concentrating on the appartement problem for the moment, it's easy, concrete and solvable, when I have found something nice to rent I will probably be seized with anxiety about work, language, the children's new school etc, etc.
It's scary and exciting ( ok, its getting more scary than exciting ) not knowing where we're going to live in less than 4 months. I'm telling myself that the worst thing that could happen is that we won't find exactly what we're looking for, which, unfortunately happens often in life.

I do hope we will get good news tomorrow.

Morning conversation

This morning my youngest son showed me his plastic sword.

-Look mum there is blood on it.

-Oh really, how come, did you put mum's nailpolish on it?

-No, I killed a catholic.

-WHAT???

-I killed a catholic ( laughing)

-What is a catholic?

-Catholics are those with other willies that eat pork meat ( still laughing, saying the w-word is so funny).

I don't analyze beacuse there is nothing to analyze, he could have said a vegetarian or a redhead instead of a catholic but I admit it sounded really, really horrible and I am relieved he didn't come out with this in front of other people.

I raise my children to respect people around them no matter their religion or colour.

The children's school is mixed with catholics, muslims, jews and vegetarians, they serve veg food at lunch and this tend to disturb the children's order of who is who.

I don't think it's shocking that the children ask each other to which community they belong as long as the answer doesn't change anything.

As my older son said about his best friend, -he is a muslim mum, but in friendship those things are not important, right?

Life's really exciting right now!

Sometimes when I'm in my car, I put on the radio as loud as I can and sing along, in those particular moments I feel invincible.
I'm actually proud of my husband and proud of myself because we have the courage to fulfill our dream.
Time will tell if we were right or wrong, but the adventure we're living right now is unreal and sometimes I'm afraid I will wake up and realize it was just my imagination...

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires." Khalil Gibran

A strange way to make bread...

The inhabitants of Novosibirsk in Russia have been informed, thanks to a bunch of idiots who hung up posters all over the city, that Pessah is approaching and that the local non Jewish children are in danger. Jews kidnap and slaughter children to obtain fresh blood for baking their special matza bread...

According to the posters people with a Jewish appearance had already kidnapped some children, the authorities had collected the bodies, and had the proof that the kidnappers and murderers were Jewish.

These kind of stories are usually told in Iran or on radical islamic networks, not in western countries.

Novosibirsk is Russias third largest city with 1 1/2 million inhabitants and a big community of 13 000 Jews.

Today, more than 60 years after the Holocaust anti-Semitism is not just a fact of history, it is a current event.

Purim again

I found a recipe on internet and wanted to make Aman ears but until now I didn't have the time.

Maybe this afternoon, but to be honest I don't like baking.

This evening the kids are getting disguised and we're going to the synagogue where Esther's meguila is read.

I read in the newspaper that Egypt is now going to supply Gaza with electricity, that sounds fair. I wonder how much that decision has cost Europe, even if it sounds heroic I don't believe Egypt accepted the deal just because they feel sorry for their Palestinian brothers...

136 DAYS BEFORE LEAVING!

The children's new French passports are ready and I've filled in the last application form for an Isareli visa.
My nights are pretty active, I'm fighting against giant ants, losing my front teeth, searching for an appartement, hiding under bomb shelters ...
Dreams are important and since I keep losing my teeth I decided to check it up on a dream site. "Dreaming of teeth falling out may represent insecurity. These dreams often occur at a time of transition between one phase of life and another".
Amazing.
The giant ant was probably beacuse I watched Men in Black the other day...