Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Ma’oz tzur yeshuati, the cat’s in the cupboard and you can’t catch me http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/maot-tzur-yeshua-ti-the-cats-in-the-cupboard-and-you-cant-catch-me/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/maot-tzur-yeshua-ti-the-cats-in-the-cupboard-and-you-cant-catch-me/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:14:51 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=83176 It was one of those “What?? Already??” moments. Yet the signs had been there… the Christmas lights, the £5 boxes of Quality Street chocolates in the supermarket, but the penny had not dropped. Even the constant  hints from my son about getting an electric guitar and the Argos (mail order) catalogue open on the electronic [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/maot-tzur-yeshua-ti-the-cats-in-the-cupboard-and-you-cant-catch-me/feed/ 20 My year in Israel with FZY 1984-1985. Part Three – Kibbutz Ketura and Moshav Nir Yafe. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-part-three-kibbutz-ketura-and-moshav-nir-yafe/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-part-three-kibbutz-ketura-and-moshav-nir-yafe/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:43:48 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=70004 Our five months on the Machon came to an end and us six FZYniks had to bid farewell to all our lovely friends. The English folk were bound to turn up again* in our lives but the likes of Alejandro from Uruguay were unlikely to be fellow students at Birmingham Poly. It was 1985 and [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-part-three-kibbutz-ketura-and-moshav-nir-yafe/feed/ 11 Four Jews on holiday in Spain http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/four-jews-on-holiday-in-spain/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/four-jews-on-holiday-in-spain/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:33:47 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=58688 It’s not easy being a parent. And it’s especially difficult being a parent of teenagers. You have to lower your expectations. A good day is one without an all out row. A typical day includes tutting, eye rolling and conspirational “OMG” glances between siblings. Don’t get me wrong, I think I’m really doing rather well. [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/four-jews-on-holiday-in-spain/feed/ 12 My year in Israel with FZY, 1984-1985: Part Two http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/machon-le-madrichim-hutz-laretz-machzor-75-my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-3/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/machon-le-madrichim-hutz-laretz-machzor-75-my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-3/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:28:53 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=45306 I was eighteen years old and two and a half thousand miles away from home in Kiryat Moriah, Jerusalem. The course was a prestigious one – Machon Le Madrichim Hutz L’Aretz – the crème de la crème of the future youth leaders from around the diaspora. Yes, they were all there…and then there was me [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/machon-le-madrichim-hutz-laretz-machzor-75-my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-3/feed/ 31 My year in Israel with FZY 1984-1985. Part One – before http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-part-one-before/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-part-one-before/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:48:43 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=39228 It was September 1984.  A Levels were done, Tina Turner was asking what love had to do with it and I was leaving my home and family to go to Israel for a whole year. But, unlike Paul Simon, I was not in the company of strangers. I was part of a group from FZY [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-year-in-israel-with-fzy-1984-1985-part-one-before/feed/ 10 The oys of Yiddish http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-oys-of-yiddish/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-oys-of-yiddish/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2012 11:41:36 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=31390 Ask a middle-aged British Jew if they know any Yiddish and they’ll say, “Well, yes, I picked some up as a child, as my parents always used to speak it when they didn’t want us to understand — things that couldn’t be said in front of the kinderlach.” As a middle-aged British Jew, however, I’ve [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-oys-of-yiddish/feed/ 85 Hands Up Who Went To Habo http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hands-up-who-went-to-habo/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hands-up-who-went-to-habo/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 21:27:39 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=21194 Hands up if you went to Habonim in the 70s. My hand is up. Hands up if your mum pronounced it HaBONim rather than HaboNIM. My hand is still up. I loved it, I would do anything to go back in time and re-live those days of heady, good old fashioned fun youth. I started [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hands-up-who-went-to-habo/feed/ 112 My family and other Jews (on Pesach) http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-family-and-other-jews-on-pesach/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-family-and-other-jews-on-pesach/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:25:42 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=15958 It’s quite good when you’re grown up and have your own house. As long as your partner’s not too fussy, you can make it up as you go along. There is no finer festival for this than Passover. As I mentioned in my earlier blog posts, I do try to keep the essence without getting [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-family-and-other-jews-on-pesach/feed/ 6 Motherly ramblings with a very tenuous link to Pesach http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/motherly-ramblings-with-a-very-tenuous-link-to-pesach/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/motherly-ramblings-with-a-very-tenuous-link-to-pesach/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:11:39 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=11882 The day didn’t get off to the best of starts. There was a misunderstanding about the appropriateness of the length of my daughter’s shorts. (She is nearly 15, need I say more?) Had my husband and I been in the same room at the time when she came to say goodbye, we may have had [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/motherly-ramblings-with-a-very-tenuous-link-to-pesach/feed/ 8 Manishtana ha 8 days hazeh http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/manishtana-ha-8-days-hazeh/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/manishtana-ha-8-days-hazeh/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:24:59 +0000 Angie Jacobs http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=8309 You gotta love Jews, but you’ve especially gotta love Jews on festivals – and Pesach just takes the biscuit (albeit a dry one.) I pride myself on being a traditional Jew. I’m not shomer Shabbat and I don’t profess to be anything I’m not. I’d like to think that I live Judaism by its essence. [...]

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