So this is the new blog space. Welcome. The magnificent Dr.Blogger set it up for me while I was in Toronto; he tried valiantly to explain all its aspects to tech-challenged me while we sat in his office, but it'll take me awhile to figure everything out. So consider the current layout a work in progress. (I've promised Joey that I'll be bugging him a lot. He, genial soul that he is, assured me that I could bug him as much as I liked).
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I got back to Tel Aviv a couple of days ago and since landing have been alternately running around and sleeping off the jetlag. I know that a lot of people are waiting for the long-promised Big Post about what happened in London and in fact I've been running it around my head for a long time. There is a lot to say, and also a lot that I have promised not to say - because after all, it was a private talk. So I have decided to compromise by writing a story, called My Zionist Hero. It'll be posted in the next day or two.
Meanwhile, here are some photos from Toronto: Me and Adina
Me freezing while a madwoman jogs in the snow behind me.

Joey displaying a Chrismukah tree ornament. It was purchased in honour of his gorgeous Jewish bride Wendy. I took this photo just before a bunch of us, including Elana and husband (otherwise known as The Dude), headed off to observe a time-honoured Jewish-Asian culinary tradition - DIM SUM.














