Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem

As you can well imagine we are all glued to the television and radio. I have discovered how to ‘see’ the news and ‘hear’ it online. For those of you would like to learn how, just ask. What a world, eh?

Speaking of world, it’s amazing how one morning you wake up one person and in a few hours you turn into somebody else.

Just the other day I was Marallyn in Jerusalem. Today I am Marallyn at War. Nu, so no one is using the three letter word…but what would you call it?

Here is what happened yesterday. The girl in my office called her parents in Safed. They were really shaken up as a katyusha had just landed and flung open all their doors and blown out all their windows. Thank God no one was injured.

My friend Bunni tried calling her daughter who lives on kibbutz Moran next to Carmiel and listened as the rockets landed all around her kid.

Both women begged their families to come to the center of the country. So far we here in Jerusalem are rocketless, but from what I hear the bastards can reach us too.

Both women’s offers were turned down. The family in Safed are very religious and grandparents and are not going to be frightened off by ‘those madmen’.

The kids on kibbutz are far from religious, young with young children and are not going to be frightened off by ‘those madmen’. The kibbutzniks used a more interesting expletive than madmen.

I told my almost 83 year old mother to stop watching her feet as she walked along to get her groceries or off to lunch in the various restaurants she loves to frequent. I told her she better start looking up in the sky. And warned her that its’ not a bird, it’s not a plane, it’s not superman…and if she sees it or hears it to run for cover.

Now is that something you should never have to tell a great-grandmother.

My mom isn’t leaving either. And she used an expletive even jucier than the kibbutzniks…in Russian! Nobody messes with Bubbie Chanah.

Our hearts and our prayers go out to our soldiers and their families…
to our three missing boys, Gilad ben Aviva, Ehud Goldwasser, 31, resident of Nahariya, Eldad Regev, 26, resident of Kiryat Motzkin…
and to the brave souls who are guarding our borders by braving the skies and remaining in their homes.

The bastards will NEVER win.

Shabbat Shalom.

Have a great day…stay safe…and thanks for dropping in.