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Nov 3, 2014, 10:34 AM
Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria
I spent this past Shabbat in Elon Moreh. The Torah portion we just read, Lech Lecha, is the first time in the Bible that the Land of Israel, the Land of Canaan as it was then known, is mentioned, and the...
Sep 12, 2013, 4:10 PM
All good
I am old enough to remember when there was no such thing as a graphical interface for any computer. You interacted with punch cards, and if you were lucky, via a command line on a terminal. Unix programmers, who...
Sep 3, 2013, 3:25 PM
I am a settler
Well, actually not quite yet. I only signed a lease to rent an apartment in the “West Bank Israeli settlement of Ariel” as it is known in most Western media. Whatever the case may be, I will be one...
Aug 25, 2013, 4:14 PM
I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me
The main theme of the Hebrew month of Elul and the following first ten days of Tishrei is repentance. This period leads into Rosh Hashana, the new year, and culminates with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. Emphasis during...
Aug 14, 2013, 12:12 PM
We’re coming home
It's been a very long road and a few obstacles are still ahead, but we're finally returning home. Some three decades ago, we left for graduate studies abroad. We were recently married, my wife expecting our first child. At the...
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Gilbert Weinstein is an academic who spent almost three decades abroad. In Fall 2013, he will return to Israel to take a position at Ariel University.
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