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New Online Grocery in Ramat Eshkol
I remember when Pink Dot first appeared in Los Angeles.
I remember when the first Online Kosher Grocery Store arrived in L.A. It even featured timely home delivery.
I never thought I’d live to see the day that this concept arrived in Jerusalem.
Let alone right in my backyard!
Then again in the past couple of years, Ramat Eshkol seems to offer an ever growing amount of American amenities. Just a couple days ago I received the following via email:
New in Ramat Eshkol! Internet shopping from Eshkolet and Peirot Hatzomet on Bar Ilan. Prices are the same as in the store and the service is even better! American customer service, hassle free.
Check us out at MyMakolet.com.
The site is still being perfected, but we wanted to enable our community to benefit from this service before Pesach as we all know shopping gets quite hectic around Yom Yov time.
Frankly, while I don’t assume every family has 20NIS to throw around on a daily basis, I do think that the concept is certainly a good idea that will take off on this area. Let’s be honest. The average person living in Jerusalem does not own a car. To that end, I can see MyMakolet.com being a great asset to a pregnant mother who simply can’t walk around in the summer heat, or to another mother who would prefer to shop without kids pulling items off of shelves, and so on and so forth.
I wish MyMakolet.com much success and who knows maybe we’ll end up giving their service a test drive one of these days!
It’s Raining it’s Pouring…
As a child I have may fond memories of sitting on our living room couch and seeing rain drops hit the window. This allowed me to sing, and rather loudly I might add, “It’s raining it’s pouring the old man is snoring!” Unable to go outside and play or ride my bike along the bike path that seemed to adorn the Pacific Ocean, I would walk around the house singing this song and other rain related tunes in both Hebrew and English.
Nowadays however, the State of California, where I was born and raised, finds itself in a dire predicament. Indeed, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently announced that California is officially not just in a financial drought but an emergency drought as well. In fact, there’s even conversations of needing to ration off water!
In my current homeland, the Land of Israel, the state of our water supply is not that much better. While we have been fortunate to have received rain as of late, the Kinneret is still heavily depleted of its water. in fact, we have been recited a special prayer three times a day for there to be additional rain. As such, in a land that places such a high priority on water, I found this recent article rather compelling. All in all, with the coming of Pesach. we will no longer recite this prayer for rain. And so, I beseech upon every Jewish person, to pray for even the smallest amount of additional rainfall in Israel.
Every little drop helps!
Besides, we are all aware that rain, geshem, is an allusion for parnassah, livelihood. What’s more by beseeching the Almighty for rain in the Land of the Jews, one can also ask Hashem to mercifully look after us during this Economic Drought as well, and allow a different type of rain to still fall upon us!
You can follow/bookmark Israel’s daily water level here. More on this topic here (which is where the picture above is also from!).
The Ramat Eshkol Song!
As many of my faithful readers know, we live in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Eshkol. Indeed, while we have not lived in this area for several decades like some of the original Anglo-Saxon Olim who established the Beit Yaakov Synagogue founded by the late Rabbi Dolgin, we still have seen it change, and drastically at that.
Case in point:
- I remember when there weren’t any Sukkah Porches on the buildings.
- I remember when the only Mehadrin restaurant on Paran was Nina’s.
- I remember when there weren’t yeshivas and minyanim on Ramat HaGolan!
Anyways, the list can continue, but on to the song below which is a funny spoof on how Ramat Eshkol is nowadays…
And so, out of all the months to share some humor, there isn’t a better one then the month of Adar!
Part 1: Recycling in The Holy Land
Welcome to the first of a series of posts that will explore how The Land of Israel does its part to “Go Green” and help the environment.
To your right is a picture of a recycling bin that reads:
Dear Citizen,
This container is for all types of paper.
To empty the container call 02-653-5944.
Thank you for your contribution towards improving the environment.
The Sanitation Department of the City of Jerusalem.
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