Author: Leah

The war drags on, antisemitism is back to stay, it isn’t easy getting used to. One friend was telling me about other Jews who parrot the lines of Hamas – I guess they feel that by feeding the crocodile they will be saved – they won’t.

There was an awful event in downtown LA, a ‘Jewish’ group shut down the the 110 freeway on a busy Wednesday morning. they are Jews, one of the organizers is the daughter of a nice Jewish family we know. I have no idea if the parents are proud of her. When I put quotation marks around Jewish – it is because – those who remove themselves from the community – are out.

I was proud to see Angelenos getting out of their cars and fighting and trying to pull the bastards off the freeways. LAPD arrested 75, I’m sure Gascon just gave them a medal and let them go. What really saddens me is that these honorable Angelenos will now be antisemitic – because these awful people called themselves Jews. Yeah, some of the worst people around call themselves Jews – but guess – Hamas will happily kill them as well.

7th night at home with a home cooked meal. Just the two of us.

8th night, back with friends. The fire was lit by one match by Sholmo. A former boyscout from Israel. It wasn’t too cold, having the fire meant we stayed outside longer.

Laughing with friends, something that is even more important right now.

Lighting the final night, all eight candles.

Time to put the menorah away, and just put out flowers. Yes I do like all the reflections we see here.

Most of the flowers are from the market, the bright pink is a geranium from my garden.

Also, the bright red berries are from my garden. So now, instead of a menorah, the flowers and I think the stars will stay out until the new year.

95% Done!!! at this point I just want it finished, I’m not enjoying the stitching anymore. I just want it to be over, and it almost is!

Leah

Half way through and have I been eating and partying, almost every night! We have one more party on the last night – will I survive all the fried food?

Even Germany, where once were the Nazi flags, now is a large menorah. Gods miracles know no end.

Ya know what would be really nice? If we could get a nice sign from the Big Boss that everything will be ok. 

If only He could reassure us that in Iron Swords (the name of the war), we are going to come out victorious. 

I mean, we know it and some of us do see signs but they’re subtle. 

A strong sign would be nice, wouldn’t it? Maybe just a head nod and a message “I got you!” 

You asked and you shall receive. 

National Geographic has just announced the discovery of iron swords in a cave in the Judean Desert as the dramatic archaeological find of 2023. 

The iron swords were hidden by Jewish rebels during the revolt against Roman empire 2,000 years ago. 

“Four ancient but well-preserved swords — found serendipitously by an Ariel University archaeologist who slipped his hand into a hole in a hidden chamber of a Judean Desert Cave — have been named the “Number-One Find for 2023” of National Geographic Magazine.”

You cannot make this stuff up. 

Thank you, Hashem. 

Your message has been received loud and clear! 

Antisemitism takes all kinds of forms. I can hear people say – but that isn’t really antisemitism. yeah it is. I never watch that show, but it just reinforces in my mind how evil the ‘entertainment industry’ really is.

this can’t be whitewashed, real vile antisemitism in my city. First of all – why did the city allow them to shut down a major thoroughfare? Second, why that location -many Jews live there (my niece among them) two very large Jewish Temples. How about the city say – sure – you can have your march elsewhere and you have to stay on the sidewalk (like they do to us Jews when we want a march to support Israel) Yes. I let a message with the useless ‘selected’ Mayor Bass – there is no human to talk to.

The family gathered for a brunch, we did light one menorah – because.

The latkes my son made where great. The Sufganiot that I bought two days earlier were not so… a little stale – which is fine, I only had one or two bites

Nice image of Erez and Aytan, he is almost done with his sufgania. Most of the coloring on this sheet was done by the adults…

the food was a hit with everyone.

We tried for a group photo – didn’t work too well, so there are just pictures of people here and there.

The opening of the gifts! Oh my.

I am so blessed to have this family to celebrate with.

Leah

Hanukkah has started, first candle.

I made another star, will put it away with the Hanukkah decorations, after Christmas, my Hanukkah stuff will stay up for a while.

An Israeli solider on his way back to his unit. Btw, looking closely I’d say he doesn’t clean the Menorah from year to year, because those colored blobs look like candle wax to me. Which I find very sweet.

We sing a song when we light the candles. Maoz Tzur – thanking almighty God for saving us from our enemies – the verses are about the Egyptians, the Babalonians, The Persians with Queen Esther, and the Greeks during the Hanukkah story. The final verse is our enemies in general. May we be blessed to include the destruction of Hamas by next Hanukkah.

Turns out the head of the Board of Directors at Penn, wants this evil woman to resign as president. For her blatant anti-semitism and more than that – for the fact that big donors are pulling back their donation. Once again – capitalism wins.

I do have to say, this will only reinforce the haters of the Jews – look at the power they wield. So be, I can live that. I can also live with some idiot on Twitter who says in response to there are only 14-15 million Jews world wide – no there are at least 10 million in Arab countries alone. Yes, most people out there supporting Hamas really know nothing at all, but they do the damage of stopping Grusom from having a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the Capitol. yes, I called his office and told them that as a Jew -I am deeply offended. I think his office will be hearing from me more and more.

and now! The big news! I only have 10% left to do!!! WooHoo! I’m working my fingers to the bone to get there.

This is what it looks like! so I am working both on the bands in the building and the bands at the bottom. So exciting!

Leah

In my neighborhood. Some have been released, some are probably dead and hopefully some will still come home. The battle right now is Dir el Balach and Chan Younis – both towns near Gush Katif where I lived for four year. We left, 10 years later the Israeli government forced all the Jews to leave – and this is what the locals did. Elected Hamas and I don’t see much opposition to them, not from the locals, not from the Gazans who have moved away. Meanwhile look at Iran, they are fighting the mullahs – so don’t tell me it can’t happen.

So true, the Red Cross is an uber service – they still haven’t visited a single CIVILIAN hostage.

December is second rose bloom here in LA. Not mine, but maybe next year, mine will bloom as well, I just planted them a year ago.

the decorations and lights are out, I love it!

In time for Hanukkah. I got a cut match lighter, I have another vintage one on the way. (thank you Etsy). I was introduced to these by a friend. I have cute matchboxes – but the striker gets worn out quickly. This is ceramic, and adorable and will be used for the menorah.

Over on Interweave I saw these cute knitted stars, I tried to reverse engineer the pattern, failed. So when they were selling the individual pattern I bought it. I was trying to go from the middle out, I was supposed to go from each individual point into the center.

here is the star, not great, first one is usually the trial one anyway. Yes, I marked up my nice table tracing a pattern – gives it character.

Next, a six pointed star, same method, just one more point.

This may be one and done, we shall see. of course I think the Star of David is much more of a star than the 5 pointed one. Although, I guess one can make them for the 4th of July

Leah

Before, this is Mia Schem before going to the Nova music festival.

Here she is, being released and brought back to Israel. Notice any difference? Btw, I still hate the Red Cross, they stand there doing nothing, letting the Hamas terrorists ‘pretend’ to be kind, and then they want credit for doing nothing for these people while they were captive. And will continue to do nothing for the remaining 137.

A neighborhood flower shop changed hands. The new owners now put out a pail of flowers they can no longer use. Which means I have to go in and spend some money there as well.

Clementines from my sons’ tree. Yes, they are yummy

This is 80% done. I have completely finished the border.

Another 3%, at this point I am so anxious to finish this! I have other projects!

handsome family getting their annual pictures, at the pier near their home.

Two other adorable grandkids.

Leah

Huge Rally in London for Israel and against antisemitism. there are about 270,000 in all of GB, over 100,000 people showed up at this rally – many non Jews – Brits who are fed up with the takeover of their country by Islamists.

Singing – Ya’aseh Shalom – make peace. Btw, no mask, no signs of hate, no calls for murder.

One of the many Brits who came out to show support. This woman is British, unlike the stabber in Dublin – who despite living there for 20 years – holds on to his Algerian ways.

Elon Musk is in Israel now, in this image he has been meeting with the president of Israel and families of hostages. For all the idiots who call him an antisemite – they themselves are antisemitic – they hate Jews, but scour the internet for every faux pas so they can call others by that term.

Abigail who saw her parents murdered is reunited with grandparents, aunt and uncle. She has also been with her brother and sister. Btw, the brother is so traumatized – he won’t speak. The horror of what was done to these people is unimaginable.

Meanwhile all over the world and the US our governments are allowing mass disruption of life by the pro-hamas crowd. This is by design. So there has been a ceasefire – and yet the protests just grow and grow – way beyond ‘Palestine’ – now it’s about destroying the west – plain and simple.

On to happier things, like the actual Thanksgiving dinner.

The Turkey, midway through. it was Yummy! Because we were out of town, I had no room to bring back the leftovers – yes, I’m sad about that.

The other turkey that graced the table.

Putting out the food, aside from Turkey there were a lot of veggies.

Loving the food!

Happy together.

Had to take a break from stuffing the face in order to take pictures

Tired but happy.

Yochanan made breakfast the next morning! Yummy, then we took Westley and Cameron home. Their parents always like to enjoy a Black Friday together.

On Sunday I had 37 people over at the house for a end of Thanksgiving weekend bash. Most are from our Minyan – we had seen each other on Saturday, needed more time on Sunday. No pictures, I was too busy. It was lovely, good company, good food. At times like these we really need one another.

Leah

The third batch released. I see among them Abigail Iran – who saw her parents murdered in front of her, ran to the neighbors – they were kidnapped together and released together. I understand that her older brother survived but is in such shock and trauma – he won’t talk – maybe her return will help.

Emily Hand, with her father. Her mother died of cancer when she was 2. The prime minister of Ireland talks about her being ‘lost and found’. What a moral midget. of course he said the man who knifed 5 people in Dublin (three of them children) is an honorable Irishman – not the evil man from Algeria who moved there 20 years go and kept all of his vile beliefs. His criticism was about the Irish who protest this awfulness – if he thinks calling them right wing extremists will convince people they are in the wrong – sorry – only Hamas supporter accept this.

This is me, I never saw the difference between supporting the Jewish homeland and being Jewish. Btw, in London 150,000 people are out in a very peaceful rally – no calls for killing anyone, no attacks on anyone. Most of the people aren’t Jewish – there are only 50,000 Jews in all of Great Britain. People have been silent for too long, they now see how the Islamists are trying to take over their country and together with the Jews, they are beginning to fight back.

We went to the Safari Park in Escondido. We had a good time, but… the park cost a lot more money than your average zoo. First of all, it is a very long walk to the tram – which was hard on Joel who’s leg has been bothering him for a while. Second, on the tram every second word out of the guides mouth was how horrible we humans are because we are causing global warming and killing off all the animals. Heck, even Greta Thunberg is over that one – she has moved on to antisemitism and pro Hamas – full bore!

I didn’t take pictures of any animals, we hardly saw any. At the lion enclosure we were told they are sleeping. Other zoos makes sure the animals learn to sleep outside – at least you can see them – but no – here they charge a fortune – then laugh in our faces when we actually want to see an animal, other then some small grazers.

The group with Joel. The one enclosure that was good was the gorillas, they were out and active.

Now I’m in the picture.

It was a lovely few days together, the cousins had fun, we enjoy being with our kids. Even if I wouldn’t recommend going to the Safari – it took up most of the day so was well worth the time to get the kids out and about.

Next – Thanksgiving.

Leah

Bill Maher gets it, except for his hatred of Trump, he is a very logical guy, and he uses that logic here.

The first group of hostage released – at a huge price.

Kids meeting with their father, who was praying and fighting for their release. Btw, what part of ‘taking civilians as hostages is a war-crime’ do most of our world not understand!

Yes, this looks lovely, Temecula. The jacuzzi is warm, not hot, warm. so that is where the kids start out.

The kids, braving the cold – jumping into the 60 degree pool.

They did it! it was cold!!!

Einav wanted in on the fun, she was shocked by the cold, Aba got her out quickly.

These two kept going and going.

Cam swimming all the way to the other end of the pool!

After the first plunge, this is as far as Einav was willing to go. More than me, I never even got a toe or pinky wet.

Leah

I’m doing well, but not taking many pictures. I am blessed to be part of a Jewish community that is politically conservative. I go every Saturday – we bolster each other, we support one another. Unlike all the Progressive Jews who are finding themselves completely alone. I’m not alone. I also have good Christian friends who proudly stand with the Jewish people. But although my life is full – I don’t have many pictures.

I am at 77% I am going to finish this before I start any other project. I am ready for it to be done.

I have been enjoying a book club, my stitchy friends come over. Getting together with friends. and yet, I simply haven’t taken pictures. So most of the post is still what is foremost on my mind. The situation of Jews in Israel and the world.

My neighborhood. someone used strong glue, because it was too much work for a hater to rip this off. Btw, watching videos of the Hamas supporters is very interesting – they can’t simply come out and say – we are antisemites – we hate Jews. They mumble something about Palestine and get very angry and upset that they are caught being evil. There is shame – and in some cases – their Boses find out and fire them – because this is not a good character trait that most businesses want in their employees. Capitalism wins!

Legacy media is garbage. Every day the BBC has to issue an apology. Every day.

The legacy media doesn’t only lie about Israel and Hamas – they lied for years about the Pandemic, I have two grandchildren who have really fallen behind. I’m trying to understand why the NYT is telling the truth now?

When I heard that Elon is antisemitic – I smelled a rat – sure enough legacy media with support of the Chi-Coms for whom Grusom cleaned up San Francisco – tried to make him out to be an antisemite. Everyone misspeaks from time to time. Even Ben Shapiro came out and said no – one tweet does not make an antisemite. But the narrative must remain.

The Abraham Accords are the biggest downfall for the Palestinians. This is from the ruler of Bahrain. I think he qualifies as an Arab.

In Israel, Arabs and Jews are both being attacked, both being brutally murdered on Oct. 7 and both fighting against Hamas.

Now Hamas is trying to claim that they didn’t know that it was a Music festival they were attacking, they are trying to backtrack – do the Holocaust denialism with in 60 days, not wait 40 years. I know, many stupid people around the world are buying the lies. Unfortunately they are the majority – the ones the world tells us we must believe because they are larger in numbers.

And so we go on, the Jews are sacrificing our sons and daughters to make the world a safer place – and because we do that – we are hated and reviled. Oh well. So be it.

Leah

I’m starting with the happier stuff this time. Unfortunately Aytan has had behavior issues on the school bus – so on Tuesdays I pick him up. since this wonderful legacy ice cream shop is close to his school – I felt it was time for a treat.

Yes, he is very happy. He chose Mango and cinnamon ice cream. Another man who was waiting to place his order – couldn’t believe that I didn’t buy any for myself. He was very impressed with my will power. As he should be- I tasted some of Aytan’s – it is really really good.

And now, onto the war.

There is a major concerted effort, using all social media to continue the brainwashing of Israel being the worst nation on earth – well, they are including America now. So I am diligently sharing what I can and I am seeing on IG a lot more following – so I am reaching people. There are good people out there I hope you are one of them. Following the legacy news is worthless -but the truth is out there – As Scully and Mulder used to say. (if you know, you know).

It is disgusting to see the kind of things people are saying and doing. And this is from the ‘peace loving crowd’ so yeah, there is an effort to combat that.

Then we move on to humor

There was an amazing rally of almost 300,000 people on the mall is DC. no vandalism – no screaming for murder. Prayers, singing. A policeman guarding the rally said he got a years’ full of thankyous in one shift. Because Jews appreciate the work they do.

Images from the rally – I know a number of people who flew from LA to be there.

Since then we have learned that one woman’s body was found near the Shifa hospital, a young woman was recorded saying how she is doing well – then she was murdered on video – Hamas is the worst of what humans are capable of.

We know that a baby was born a hostage, don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl, don’t even know if it or its mother are still alive.

I am so proud of this flag – I am so proud of most of the Jewish people – as far as I’m concerned there are two organizations that have completely sided with our killers – I won’t name them – but no, they have removed themselves from the Jewish people. Meanwhile, many non Jews have joined in fighting for decency and the western way of life.

Not all UCs’ are alike, my son and daughter in laws alma mater is one of the good ones.

Leah