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I found this article online and felt compelled to share it with you guys.
(credit: Radio Praha)
Among the souvenirs that tourists bring back from a visit to Prague are little clay figures of the Golem – a giant linked to one of Prague’s best known legends. What few of them know is that there is a [...]

In a world where instant is rarely quick enough (just think about how annoying it is when your celphone takes more than .025 seconds to find a connection…) it’s about time that the folks at Photoshop have come up with the ultimate cooking/baking software. I remember back in the day when I installed Photoshop on [...]

Contrary to the typical American kid, Getting help in case of emergency was a different experience.
Growing up in the strong Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn, 911 was not a number that I grew up with. With all these volunteer organizations surrounding us, like Hatolah, Shomrim, Chaveirim etc. which in most cases had a faster [...]

Driving in from the airport in Tel Aviv to Yerushalayim the taxi driver droned on and on about politics, the weather and whatever pearls of wisdom he felt was needed to prevent any catching up of sleep lost on the plane due to the two screaming children right behind me… The need to interrupt only [...]

Fervent Unbelief
Sometimes believing what “everyone knows” to be true without considering all the evidence can lead to an amusing sort of dissonance.