Welcome to the 170th edition of haveil havalim.

It's nice to be back hosting. I see from all the new contributors that Jack's done a great job of expanding the reach of Haveil Havalim. Enjoy!

Mazel Tov

Seraphic Secret presents Seraphic Wedding Anniversary: 31.

Israel Matzav writes about A crazy day on the personal front

Israel

The Israel Situation  presents The Israel Situation: Israel Exercises Prepare for Iran Attack? saying, "A discussion of Israeli military drills and Iran."

me-ander presents Reflecting, saying, "Don't you miss jpix!"

Yes I do miss J-Pix, but there's always the Kosher Cooking
Carnival!

SimplyJews presents Liat versus hadron collider, saying, "Oh... so the founding father takes this one. Cool!"

SimplyJews presents The Angry Man.

Letters of Thought presents In a Ward on a Hill .

Letters of Thought presents MoMA with Mama.

Shiloh Musings presents Moshe Feiglin, Is He...?  saying, "politics, too Do you enjoy being a guest host?"

Yes. But that's because it's a novelty.

The Spine notes an irony Israeli Universities on Top.

Jerusalem Diaries:In Tense Times presents Jerusalem--On the brink of Partition?.

Elder of Ziyon presents Flashback: The November 2006 "cease fire".

Yourish presents One year later.

Antisemitism

Hot Air presents ABC News: Hezbollah sleeper cells in Canada activated, seek Jewish targets.

Yourish presents Pat Buchanan: Hitler's Willing Prevaricator.

YID With LID presents YID With LID: Victor Davis Hanson BEATS UP on Pat Buchanan.

Culture

Backspin presents Cannes Recognizes Campaign for Israeli MIAs.

LIFE-of-RUBIN presents My Review of Artsroll's New Book "Miracle Ride" an inspiring story about a teenager's struggle against a terrible disease.

Jack's Shack explains The Jewish Role in Creating Comic Book Heroes.

My Right Word has something in common with Meathead's dad,  I Was in Betar, Too.

Ari's Blog presents Lion of Zion: A Beautiful Voice.

Daled Amos presents New Movie About Holocaust Survivors In The Catskills.

History

The Sephardic Perspective presents The Champion of Zion: Hakham Mordehai Eliyahu.

Humor

A Time of the Signs presents an amusing look at Israeli signs Back at last.

treppenwitz presents a faux pas You say tomato....

I would have still thought about the word's original meaning.

Not Just Typical presents Chava's Curse and The Yeshiva Liberation Movment, saying, "In a humorous fashion I explain why the curse Hashem gave to Chava is no more."

A Frum Punk presents The Most Heimish Post Ever.

Frum Satire presents Kosherfor Shabbos Toilet Paper - no joke!!!.

Judaism

Rechovot: A Place to Expand presents Ran,Beit Yosef rule: Conversion is Desirable, for the sake of the Convert about"The Conversion Crisis"

****** Cosmic X in Jerusalem ****** presents Rabbi Druckman, Rabbi Sherman and the Conversion Crisis (Part 8).

Daled Amos presents How Green Is My Judaism?

Tzipiyah.com presents Authentic Kiruv - Part 4, saying, "Part of a 5 part series on true Kiruv which should bring individuals of Klal Israel closer together rather than bring someone who you think is "far" closer to what you think is "close"."

Israel

Lady-Light presents Is the South Seceding from the "Union"? posted at Tikkun Olam, saying, "I found this significant, and foreboding. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems to me to be the first mass movement vociferously opposing government policy and
actually taking action against it."

Does anyone remember the State of Judea from about 20 years ago?

The Muqata جميل في المقاطعة presents Leadership in Action: Another Rabbi Announces their Aliya.

Noah Pollak writes about Terms of Endearment.

J O S H U A P U N D I T critiques An Ill-Advised Temporary Cease Fire with Hamas.

Little Green Footballs underscores the problem with discussing Shebaa Farms Israel
Gives Terrorists What They Want, Terrorists Want More.

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred reminds us who benefits in Hassan Nasrallah, In His Own Words.

Yehuda exposes a hoax in Video Atrocity, or Media Manipulation?

Rechovot: A Place to Expand presents Of Myanmar and Canaan: Ethnic Cleansing or Termination of an Unworthy Society?

YID With LID presents CONDI RICE Announces Mid-East Peace Solution: NO SEX FOR JEWS !

YID With LID presents Seven Years, 10,000 Kassams, No Support.

Esser Agaroth presents Shabbath In Tapu'ah And Saturday Nights Live!.

****** Cosmic X in Jerusalem ****** presents Remembering Gush Katif .

****** Cosmic X in Jerusalem ******  records more progress Jerusalem Calatrava Bridge: Really Strung Up.

Judaism

Schvach - פני דל presents This Year, And Forever!.

Tikkun Olam presents Meet: Ohr Chadash saying, "Maybe this should be listed under "Kiruv Organizations," or "Jewish Spirituality." But there aren't any such categories, so put it wherever you feel it fits (העיקר , just 'put it!')"

I think it fits in the general Judaism category.

Rechovot: A Place to Expand presents Why Orthodoxy? Part I.

Dixie Yid - Thoughts on life and Chassidus presents The Rambam Holds of Hashgacha Pratis on Every Detail of Creation..

Personal

In the Pink presents Lessons of the fathers .

In the Pink presents What does Zniut mean to you?.

Deja Vu presents Happy Father's Day.

Jackie Danicki presents What did you do on Fathers? Day?.

She went to the Ariel Avrech z"l Memorial lecture.

Shiloh Musings presents "Givemy regards to..." saying, "Israel, too. "only in Israel," but"

An unfortunately too common occurrence.

Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible presents Ghetto gardening.

Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible presents Thinking of Montana « Frum Outdoorsman: Rare but Possible.

Frume Sarah's World presents Objective, Reflexive, & Subjective posted at , saying, "What really aggravates me..."

Politics

Boker Tov Boulder presents You can't unring a bell.

No concession ever goes unpunished. Or unforgotten.

Judeopundit presents NY Times: "A Year Reshapes Hamas and Gaza," well maybe not Hamas so much.

It's Almost Supernatural speculates whether Zim Jews to be airlifted to Israel?.

He's skeptical.

The Jewish Internet Defense Force presents Facebook endorses Hamas.

Writes Like She Talks, last week's hostess, presents Number

of Jews in Congress could set record after 2008 elections saying, "The
number of legislators in the United States Congress who are Jewish (43) is still
less than 10% of all representatives and senators (N=535), but it's several
times more than the percentage of Jews in the US population. Does it matter and
if so, how?"

Power Line examines Sen. Obama'sflip flop on Jerusalem and concludes that he's Not Ready for Late Night Infomercial Time.

FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו looks at the records and asks Who owns the word ?peace??.

Judeopundit observes "PCHR is deeply concerned about the recurrence of internal explosions".

Deep concern is a belated and inadequate first step.

Torah

Velveteen Rabbi presents This week's portion: larger than life saying, "This week's Torah poem riffs on the notion of fears and anxieties that arise upon entering the land."

Life in Israel presents Two on the spies.

Misc

GNIF Brain Blogger presents God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads? saying, "How do we really view religion? Could it be the very source of belief comes from our brain?"

I'm skeptical.

Shira bat Sarah presents When the Waters Recede saying, "It has become a tradition to compare each natural disaster the US faces to Hurricane Katrina. The latest being the floods in Iowa. An Iowan made some denigrating comments about those of us in Mississippi and
Louisiana who are still in FEMA trailers. My post asks you to decide if the severity of the flood dictates the time it takes to rebuild."

Tikkun Olam presents Arabs and Democracy Just Don't Mix - Who Knew?, saying, "I don't know whether 'culture' is the right heading or not, as the interview can be seen as pretty funny (in a sad way, considering U.S. and even Israel 'foreign policy'). Basically it proves the old adage, that 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.' LL"

Tzipiyah.com presents Announcing the "Question of the Week"! Win Real Incredible Prizes! saying, "Incredible weekly opportunity to win real prizes by commenting on a question posted on the blog."

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