Perspectives on what is happening in Israel from a family living in a very newsworthy part of the world.
What's a nice family like us doing in a place like this? We are an Orthodox Jewish family that moved to Israel in 1991. We learned Hebrew, found work, moved to a nice suburban community 30 minutes from Tel Aviv, had a few kids... Pretty boring, right? It would be, if half the world weren't so obssessed with where we live. The nice suburban community we moved to is in Samaria, in the west bank. When speaking to Israelis or other Orthodox Jews, we refer to the place we live in as the Shomron, using the biblical, Hebrew term for the region. We chose to use west bank in our name because it is more familiar to those who have never heard of the term Shomron. Welcome to all of you interested in reading about what is happening in Israel from the perspective of a family living in a very newsworthy part of the world.
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I think I got mine a Nevuah-R-Us. :-) Thanks for the mention. Like said to Mirty, it's easy to make an armchair assessment of the situation on the ground when you don't have a dog in the fight. Yes, I'm a settler... but Efrat isn't Hevron... not by a long shot. :-)
Please sign the petition to re-open Hebron for all Jews at:
http://new.petitiononline.com/Hebron/petition.html
Please pass it on! Thanks!
treppenwitz - I admire the people who live there more than I can say. At the same time, I think we have to choose our battles. We are in for a rough few years.
judah - I signed.
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