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• good for Israel's security.
bad for Israel's interests.
poor enough to bring back Bibi.
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f something is "up for grabs," it usually
does not last too long around our
office, especially food treats. But that's
good: Things do not go to waste.
However, there seems to be a proliferation
these days of those who help themselves,
wherever they are, to things that are not nec-
essarily meant for disbursal.
Imagine our surprise during a recent hotel
stay to find that if we wanted the dresser
lamp closer to the mirror, too bad. It was
bolted to the dresser top. We have even found
places where the pictures have been secured
to the walls. Do you think that it's done just
to keep them from shifting? Dream on.
Once, while visiting a model home, I
inquired of the salesperson as to why the han-
dles were missing from the furniture in the
master bedroom. She said that there had been
people removing them, so the builders took
them off first.
I recall from when I was still teaching that
if something was left on a desk, even while
the owner went to the blackboard or waste-
basket, it would probably be gone upon the
owner's return. When was it decided that
anything not in hand was fair game?
There was an item in the news a while ago
that in New York City someone finally got
revenge on some "grabbers." A dog owner
faithfully followed his pet on an evening walk
and upon returning home placed the contents
of the pooper-scooper in a box with a ribbon
and left it on his own doorstep. You guessed
it; it did not stay there more than an hour!
Well, that was deserved, as far as I am con-
cerned.
Do you recall the saying, "God helps those
who help themselves"? Well, I'd like to add to
that, "God help those who are caught helping
themselves." El

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I consider superstition to be ...
entertaining myth. (64%)
• biblical truth. (8%)
• somewhere in between. (25%)
• something I adhere to. (3%)

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he word kippa is Hebrew for head covering. Many
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Made of cloth, a kippa is several inches in diameter.
Orthodox males wear one at almost all times, while Conservative males
— and some females — wear it in synagogue. Many Reform Jews wear
kippot at temple worship services, where it is an optional practice.
In Jewish tradition, wearing a head covering "conveys the wearer's
sense that there is a force in the universe above him," according to Rabbi
Joseph Telushkin in his book Jewish Literacy. Wearing a kippa is a cus-
tom, not a law, but many Jews believe doing so shows respect to God.

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