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This Normal Life :: Transportation Planner Provides Peek into Jerusalem Transit Changes

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Motorists in Jerusalem have for several months now been stuck in severe traffic jams while traveling near or through the city center. That’s unfortunate, though not entirely unintentional, explains Marc Render,…

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No Offense Taken

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A Japanese company contacted me by email last week expressing interest in the new startup I’m in the process of launching. The company, which was representing a large Internet Service Provider based in Osaka, wanted…

Reinventing Date Night

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My wife Jody and I try to go out for a date night once a week. Sometimes we slip to once every two or three weeks. So when we do get out, we want to make sure it’s good. Regular readers will know we’re big fans of…

This Normal Life: Waterless

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A few weeks ago, we ran out of hot water. Well, we didn’t actually run out. But through a convergence of bad luck, all our hot water heating devices broke down simultaneously, leaving us hot waterless with Shabbat…

Tsav Rishon

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Our 16-year-old year old son Amir received his Tsav Rishon last week. That’s the letter the Israeli army sends out with the date a young man or woman must appear at the army’s induction center for physical and mental…