Welcome to Haveil Havalim #199:
The We Can't Stop Twittering/Blogging/Reading/Worrying/Watching/What's Going On in Israel Right Now Edition....
or....The Stuck To My BlackBerry Like Glue Edition....
It's been a stressful week for our friends and family in Israel as well as all of us chutz l'aretz.
As Jameel says....my blog turns toward Israel.
The standard opening line:
Founded by Soccer Dad, Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week and coordinated by Jack. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'
Founded by Soccer Dad, Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week and coordinated by Jack. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'
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Israel on our minds and our blogs...
Let's start with what's on-going...Jack, in his amazingly put-together way, has been posting regular updates and round-ups of posts.
Make sure to check them out, they are incredible:
(Sorry, Jack, if I'm not caught up with you. But y'all get the idea...go see what he's got.)
Live blogging here: muqata.blogspot.com and israellycool.com
and if you're not on Twitter, I think this is the time to join or at least look at it.
I recommend http://twiddleeast.com/ for a pretty interesting roundup of Tweets.
And in case you missed it, the Israeli Consulate held a Twitter-press-conference. It was pretty darn cool.
(In case you're getting started with Twitter, see Leora's post: Intro to Twitter at Here in HP.)
While you're at it, checkout http://helpuswin.wordpress.com/ - and help to digg, facebook, tweet, and blog about Israel.
Then again, we all seem to be doing pretty well considering the volume of posts I got this week! (and I thought I had picked a quiet week to host...) There are tons of posts below about how Israel is being portrayed in the media, what's being done about the "PR War" and so on.
Okay, onto the posts. I tried to get them all in. Sorry if I missed any.
Jill Miller Zamon (Writes Like She Talks) wrote this really great round-up post on BlogHer. (quotes and links to some of you!) I think it's particularly good because I'd guess that the majority of BlogHer's readers aren't as intimately connected to Israel as most of us HH'ers are.
Jill Miller Zamon (Writes Like She Talks) wrote this really great round-up post on BlogHer. (quotes and links to some of you!) I think it's particularly good because I'd guess that the majority of BlogHer's readers aren't as intimately connected to Israel as most of us HH'ers are.
A Soldier's Mother is getting a lot of traffic on this post What I Want...What I'll Do.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, had this to say about the Gaza War. I'm proud of him.
Mottel agrees with me about Social Media and How it Will Help Israel Win the War posted at Letters of Thought. He also posted Qassams in Brooklyn.
Mordechai Torczyner presents Community Rabbi, reporting from Gaza and also Behind the United Nations' War on Israel.
Daled Amos caught onto The Obvious Tipoff To Israel's Operation Cast Lead--And We All Missed It! He also offers his notes on the Conference Call: Daled Amos: Notes On Today's Conference Call On Gaza and also A Good Indication Of Which Party Is Really Better For Israel
Bangladeshi Hindu offered these thoughts on Israeli Gaza Operation effective in Military and Propaganda Wars.
Tikkun Olam muses on the confluence of Chanukah and the war with Last Night of Chanukah,or: Oferet Yetzukah
Did you know that Jews barred from Nachmanides cave, Maara given to Wakf (posted at Expulsion pictures - תמונות של הגירוש בחברון) Very interesting in light of the current crisis.
Mother in Israel gives her Report from the Home Front.
Joel Katz shares Religion and State in Israel - December 29, 2008 (Section 1) posted at Religion and State in Israel, reminding us that despite the matzav, life goes on...here's part 2: Religion and State in Israel - December 29, 2008 (Section 2)
Read this really great first-person account of living under the rocket fire: Out of the Frying Pan – Into the Fire posted at Shiloh Musings, and here's more on the "Sewer Shelters": Life-protecting Sewers for Gush Katif Expellees. Epileptic Seizures, Expulsion, and War Related Stress also gives a first-hand look at the effect this is having on everyone.
FrumeSarah encountered some nasty comments and responded strongly with Answering Hatred. (We continue to wish you a refuah shleimah, FS!)
Duckrabbit בירושלים describes an afternoon wtih her roommate in Galgalatz, spaceheaters and tea in Niv's room. a great capture of life in Israel during the crisis...
me-ander is thinking about a different kind of pop than you might think in I'm Afraid of That "Pop!" (which just goes to show that life must go on...)
Jewish Life and Culture...
Ari's Blog is sharing the music of Maya Bouskilla.
Dan Illouz shared this post Killing a terrorist when he has stopped murdering from Torat HaRav Aviner.
Shiloh Musings presents Burying The Dead, End of the Goyishe Year (2008) Update and also I Don't Drink The Stuff (which was probably my favorite pic of the week).
Shtetl Fabulous wonders if there's a yenta gene in this post, A Blessing on Your Head. (If there is one, I think I've got it)
Cynthia Samuels shares this post, Don't Gel Too Soon : Farewell to A True Anti-Apartheid (and Jewish) Hero(ine) of South Africa: Helen Suzman.
Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf died this week. He was a truly amazing man. Here's one remembrance.
If you haven't heard, the story of the apples was a hoax. See what Batya said: A "Corny" Con at Shiloh Musings.
Moshe Kranc@Hasidic Management actually has something nice to say about Madoff!? Before you flame, go read....A Few Observations on Madoff. I think it's a great piece.
Heshy@Frum Satire makes me laugh again wtih Metrosexual Fashions come to the Yeshiva World. (I never ever ever thought I would read "metrosexual" and "yeshiva world" in the same headline. You?)
Joel M. Hoffman compares our current economic situation to the famines our ancestors faced in the Torah: There's a Famine in the Land (kippah tip to Rabbi Rosenberg)
Everything Else...
Yechezkel wonders about age and adulthood in Parsha Challenge - Parshat VaYigash: A Breech in Protocol.
Batya is also thinking about the parasha in This Week In The Bible--Just Wondering.
On the subject of Torah, Ilana-Davita has this excellent parasha post too: Serah, Joseph and Speech.
New blogger on the scene Ahava Ariel launches her blog with It is Hardly Her Fault, a conversation about intermarriage and Miketz. Go and welcome her to blogland!
Ari's Blog examines the First Koren Bibles in a pretty neat historical post, inspired by the upcoming new Koren siddur. (post by Ilana-Davita.)
People have been talking about books they're reading, like Baila and Leora and Ilana-Davita and MominIsrael and SuperRaizy and even the Ima (that's me). (did I miss anyone? Sorry.)
A big mazel tov to 2008 Weblog Award Finalists: Jew Wishes, Israelly Cool, Elder of Ziyon, Fundamentally Freund, Israel Matzav and Daled Amos (Kippah tip to Mom in Israel)
That's all for now....
Please send your posts for the next edition (#200!)
of the Haveil Havalim Blog Carnival via the Blog Carnival Submission Form.
If you're interested in hosting or receiving more information about the carnival,
please contact Jack at talktojacknow-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
(and please, for the sake of our hosts,
try not to submit more than 3 posts a week!)
of the Haveil Havalim Blog Carnival via the Blog Carnival Submission Form.
If you're interested in hosting or receiving more information about the carnival,
please contact Jack at talktojacknow-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
(and please, for the sake of our hosts,
try not to submit more than 3 posts a week!)
Send your posts to Ilana-Davita for the Kosher Cooking Carnival this month.
Please please please publicize HH on
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A very nice edition of Haveil Havalim, the Jewish Blog Carnival,
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Please please please publicize HH on
your own blog and share the news about it!
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come back regularly to see what's cooking here!
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We now return to our regularly scheduled programming...
come back regularly to see what's cooking here!
There's a new group on Facebook for Jewish Twitter-ers...are you one? Join us!
(And feel free to follow me, too!)
And if you're not in the HH Facebook group, come and join that too!
18 comments:
I'm way too tired to publicize your fabulous HH tonight, but bli neder will do so in the morning.
"twiddleast.com" sounds really cool, but I'm getting cannot find server.
I look forward to reading your post about reading, and I'll have to read so, so, so many of these tomorrow, when my eyes are a little more open.
Shavua tov, and great job.
oops, thanks for catching that. i left out an "e" - fixed the link.
shavua tov!
How do you have time to compile this? Amazing!
I sure passed it on to my peeps.
Thanks Phyllis for all the work putting together this HH!
Yaasher koach. Well done.
Good show.
B"H
Thanks for hosting and for the links.
I think that's the best subtitle for HH we've had in a long time!
Haveil Havalim #198 [199] Is Up!
Many thanks for the good work and the link!
You've done a great job. Thanks for including some of my links. I'll advertize HH on my blog asap.
Thanks for the Super HH and including so many of my posts.
I'm impressed with how clearly you've organized all that material. Great job, thank you.
Wow, outstanding aggregation. I can't believe all the sources you have here. Great job.
Oh, and thanks for the link to TwiddleEast.com, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve it, so if you or your readers have ideas let me know! @jevnin on Twitter.
Thanks for the hard work!
Josh
Great Job!
What a terrific job, and thanks for keeping us informed.
Great job and thanks for the shout out! We can schmooze about our shared yenta genes anytime.
Kol Hakavod - great job - how did I get to be first! :) Thank you and stay safe.
Great job indeed, and thanks for the link. Let's all have a better week.
Thanks for the links.
Haveil Havalim Blog Carnival #199
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