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You never write, you never blog


Yeah, well, given the threats I was getting just before leaving town for two weeks, I didn’t feel like making a big announcement but if you’re curious to know where I was, you can start here.I hope to write often and in great detail over the next several days but the fact is, it’s hard to imagine that my writing from this moment on won’t somehow reflect the last two weeks I spent in Israel with my family and 31 members of my synagogue, our tour guide, bus driver, youth counselors and many other individuals along the way.What do you want to know about first? 

By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:59 am August 18th, 2008 in Blogging, Israel 

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13 Responses to “You never write, you never blog”

  1. 1 Carole Cohen on August 18th, 2008 12:30 pm

    Looking forward to learning a lot on that site……..

  2. 2 Kelley Bell on August 18th, 2008 12:56 pm

    Wow. Sounds like an amazing trip. I do hope you post some pics.

  3. 3 Ben K on August 18th, 2008 1:03 pm

    Welcome back. We decided when you were gone you had to do the Carnival every week from now until the election.

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on August 18th, 2008 2:21 pm

    Does that mean I get to editorialize more than I usually do too? :)

  5. 5 Ben K on August 18th, 2008 2:38 pm

    Sure.

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on August 18th, 2008 3:14 pm

    Okay – wait – I take it back.

  7. 7 Unique on August 18th, 2008 4:49 pm

    What did you eat that was tasty? Do you cook like that at home? And when are you inviting me to dinner? :)

  8. 8 Lara on August 18th, 2008 6:00 pm

    So glad to have you back safe and sound. I can’t wait to read your thoughts about the border and your observations of Israeli/Palestinian communication.

  9. 9 Jill Miller Zimon on August 18th, 2008 10:51 pm

    Unique – ALL the food was tasty! :)

    To start with, the freshness of everything – the veggies and the fruits especially. We were picking pomegranites, olives and carob right from the trees, in courtyards of homes.

    The kids loved getting chocolate bread and chocolates spread for breakfast and one of the most popular snack food/junk food is Bamba.

    When we were in an Israeli Arab village called West Barta, which is west of the Green Line and in Israel (though East Barta is in the West Bank but also west of the Green Line and the security fence – meaning, there’s no formal boundary – I’ll write about it later), we bought a carton of fresh figs – nothing like Fig Newtons.

    We ate St. Peter’s fish with the heads on and our youth counselor ate the eyes.

    No – I do not cook like that! My kids ate chicken nuggets twice in eight hours once we got home. Perdue. Their request. We did drink Israeli wine this evening though.

  10. 10 Oengus on August 19th, 2008 10:48 am

    Hay! Khaver!

    Ikh hob dikh azoyfil nokh gebenkt.

    Am I the only person who is experiencing problems with the way the web page is displaying?

  11. 11 Jill Miller Zimon on August 19th, 2008 3:48 pm

    Oengus – it’s Chaver as in chaverim. :)

    I am guessing that’s either German or Yiddish?

    The page looks fine to me – I use Firefox on a MacBook w/Leopard.

  12. 12 lilatovcocktail on August 19th, 2008 7:47 pm

    Welcome back. Missed your voice in cyberspace, but I am loving your “Write of Return” blog and the pictures. Thanks for going through the work of posting them.

  13. 13 Jill Miller Zimon on August 19th, 2008 10:10 pm

    Thanks, Lilatov. ;)

    I’m working on uploading photos and making albums etc. Hopefully they will be ready to share later this week.

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