Adina's Bat Mitzvah

Here are a few pictures from Adina's Bat Mitzvah. Enjoy the show!

Nachi Puts on His Talis & Tefilin

B'H Nachi put on his Talis & Tefilin for the first time today. You can enjoy the short video by clicking the arrow below the box.

ON THE TRAIL OF ASIAN ELEPHANTS

On the morning of Monday 3rd May 2010 Londoners woke up to find their city had been invaded by 250 brightly coloured life-sized baby elephant statues each weighing in at 154 lb. It was part of a campaign by The Elephant Family Charity to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered Asian elephant. Each elephant statue was beautifully decorated by an artist or celebrity and at the end of June all the statues will be for sale by auction with all proceeds going to elephant conservation.
Ruth braved the jungle one day to seek out these baby elephants and found many of them standing happily in just one park alone. She took many photos and here are some of the better ones.

Save the Date!

Just wanted to remind everyone to mark August 21st on their calenders for the big day ... you know the one where my baby boy becomes a man ... oh wow how TIME FLIES! Invitations will be coming soon!

And Thier Off!

Even though these children do belong to David and I, they somehow inherited a sports gene. Nachi is enjoying playing baseball, Yehudit is kicking away at soccer David and I get to utilize our orginizational skills by trying to coordinate who will be driving to and from each game (there are about 4 -5 a week), when the kids need to be at practice and who will be there to cheer them on.

RUTH, MAUREEN & SELMA'S WINTER 2009/2010

While Israel was "suffering" from a Chamsin, most of the Western World this year was gripped by a severe winter the likes of which have not been seen for many years. The 3 of us were taken by surprise one day in January when we woke up to find that about 6 inches of snow had fallen overnight. Of course, we immediately took out our camera and started snapping away.
Although the snow didn't last very long where we live, unfortunately in other parts of England and Europe it looked as though winter had come with a vengeance and wasn't about to leave in a hurry.
In March we travelled to Sweden to join in the celebrations of our Aunty Bebe's 90th birthday. We were thrilled to see all our Swedish relatives once again and had a very enjoyable time. However, not so enjoyable was the fact that there was still at least 2 feet of snow around although this didn't stop us from travelling a little here and there.
One day, we took the train to see one of our cousins and the journey reminded us of a scene straight out of Dr. Zhivago. Looking out of the train window all we could see was miles of bleakness with the occasional snowed-in farm in the distance.
The main towns of Sweden were not quite so cut off as people were employed to clear the streets and to shovel off the snow from roofs of houses and they even had special dumping areas to put the mountains of snow they had collected.
We took many photos, some of which are shown below. ROLL ON SUMMER!!

Snow dumping area

The above 4 photos were like scenes from Dr. Zhivago

Part of this lake was thawed out for the birds

Shoveller on the roof!!

Winter also came to England!!

soda crystals which formed in this

jug look just like a snow scene

Purim - Family Style

Hi everyone. Sorry this post took sooooooooooooooooooooooo long. I was trying to put together a slide show but it wasn't uploading and I can't figure out why. So instead ... here are a few photos from our Purim celebrations.