The 17th Edition Of JPix!

Welcome to JPix 17!

Rabbi Shmuli Weiss shaking Lulav and Esrog with one of the Jewish Students at at McGill University - photo courtesy of Yossi from The Next Step

This edition of JPix is another great example of the talented photographers we have within the JBlogosphere!

About JPix:
JPix is a fortnightly carnival started by BagelBlogger, for Jewish bloggers and the photos they take. So if you're Jewish and you have photos you want to share, whether they be family, historical, art, funny, quirky, whatever, make sure you get them into the next edition of JPix!

Thank you to all the people who have submitted photos and please remember if you do not submit, you most likely will not be included - I only post what is submitted. (you can submit for other people)

The photos featured here in this post are just a small sample of what you will see in the bloggers posts - you need to click on the links to see all the photos!

Eretz Israel:

Akiva from Mystical Paths Blog & Emunah Paths Podcasts presents us with Life Guards a fabulos post which shows one of the IDF units which operate in, and around Jewish towns in the West Bank. They watch for movement where there shouldn't be and risk their lives to stop murderers far from peoples homes. This post includes some nightvision photos too.
Akiva has a few great photo posts up at the moment, another being a post of photos taken by his son - Hiking Tiberious - Safed. Also check out photos from Masada, taken from the top in Akivas post Masada - Topside.

Cosmic X in Jerusalem shares a great photo his son took during Rav Shapira's funeral procession as it passed through the Geula neighborhood in his post I Like This Picture.

A Mother in Israel and her family recently learnt about some of the local birds at the national park Afek near Rosh Haayin A Sukkot for the Birds .

Judaism:

Yossi from The Next Step has some great photos from Succot posted in: Succos Pictures Part 1, which were taken at the McGill University campus.

At Shiloh Musings Muse presents Easier Up Than Down, a photo post of the dismantling of the Succah after Succot.

Pop over to Planet Israel and make sure you have a look at this post - To Kill A Cluckingbird!

Occasions:

Teachers salaries have dropped in comparison to other sectors and Muse is on strike! Check out her post The Teachers Strike posted at Teaching English in Binyamin.

Muse has some lovely photos posted of her grandson, Yochai Arye's Brit Milah, posted at her blog me-ander. Mazel Tov!

Family:

Muse presents The Big Sisters posted at me-ander. As we know, her daughter recenly gave birth to a little boy Yochai Arye, and Muse had the job of looking after the Big Sisters - looks like they had fun!

While on the topic of family, Rafi G's family gained a new addition yesterday! Mazal Tov!

Out and About:

Mottel (the birthday boy) over at Letters of Thought presents The Industry of Wine - A Photo Essay after spending a week recently at a winery. He has heaps of cool photos, a must to visit!

Muse went Strolling in Jerusalem a few days ago and took some delightful snaps along the way, they, along with many other great posts, are over at me-ander.

Muse worries... Another Amona? posted over at Shiloh Musings.

Make sure you pop over to A Simple Jew and have a peek at The Photography Of A Simple Jew's Father - Part III - beautiful!

David at Temunot has found him! Yes he has found Nemo! Finding Nemo

Trips:

Evan of Planet Israel recently made a trip back to his old home in the US, but then came time to leave and return to his new home in Israel - Leaving Walnut Creek... he says goodbye once again.

That concludes this edition of JPix, thankyou to all who submitted posts. Sorry to anyone who has been left out of this edition. Make sure you submit your photo article to the next edition of j pix - jewish photo carnival using the carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

If you would like to host an edition of JPix please contact BagelBlogger.

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Good-bye Girl

Needless to say, things have been kind of crazy in the past few weeks - hence the lack of blogging... I can't believe it has been a month since I last posted.

As many know, we are gearing up to do the 'big move'. We have a half empty house now - well, half empty compared to what it was... and trust me, it was pretty full! We have sold a lot of our things, but I feel like we have so much more to go and we are quickly running out of time to get rid of them.

About two weeks ago we gave our beloved pet dog away as we will be unable to keep her when we are living in Sydney (no backyard = unhappy dog!) Thankfully we were able to find a really good home for her, infact we couldn't have hoped for a better home for her. The people have another dog - same breed and same age, and they live on a really big property with a couple of dams so the dogs can go swimming whenever they like. It was a sad day, the kids were pretty upset, but, considering she has gone to such a good home makes it a bit easier for us, we know she is being spoilt!

So, today, I thought I would do a quick post to let my blogging friends know I am still around and everything is ok...

...Oh and don't forget to drop back in and check out JPix on Thursday, I am hosting - get your picture posts in!!


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JPix call for submissions

JPix is due up later this week, if you are a Jewish blogger and have any recent photo posts make sure you submit them here!

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L'Shana Tovah!

I had my Rosh Hashanah post all ready to post when my browser colapsed and I lost my post, so this time I will keep it short!

L'Shana Tovah, may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year!




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Hoping For A More Peaceful Night!

Just thought I would post a random photo today, it is not really related to this post... but anyway.

I had a terrible sleep last night, Amber has croupe again so I pretty much slept with one eye open - ready for a coughing fit from Amber and ready to leap out of bed and down the stairs in the darkness to see if she is ok. Thank goodness she was ok last night although I think she will be worse tonight.

Apart from having a restless sleep, once I did fall into a sound sleep I woke to our dog's incessant barking at 2.30am. I ended up having to go outside into the cold misty night to call her back home and to get her to stop barking, which, she pretty much ignored once I went back inside.

The last time I looked at the clock it was 4am, the next time I looked at the clock it was 7.30am and time to get up - needless to say the night was too short.


Here's hoping tonight will be a more relaxed and peaceful night!


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The 15th Edition Of JPix!

Welcome to the 15th Edition Of JPix!

Photo courtesy of Sara With No H... wishing you all the best for the future...

Well it is that time again... time for another edition of JPix! This edition is bursting at the seams with wonderful photos for you to have a look at. We have had a few new submitters to JPix this fortnight which is great!

About JPix:
JPix is a fortnightly carnival started by BagelBlogger, for Jewish bloggers and the photos they take. So if you're Jewish and you have photos you want to share, whether they be family, historical, art, funny, quirky, whatever, make sure you get them into the next edition of JPix!

Thank you to all the people who have submitted photos and please remember if you do not submit, you most likely will not be included - I only post what is submitted. (you can submit for other people)

The photos featured here in this post are just a small sample of what you will see in the bloggers posts - you need to click on the links to see all the photos!


Mottel from Letters Of Thought shows us he is not just a talented photographer but indeed has many talents including being a great cook in his post A Lithuanian Summer In Italy VII -Coda del Lituania.

In this post, the last in the series of seven posts, Mottel shares some wonderful photos from the last night of camp and of the journey home.

If you have missed the past installments of this journey, you can catch up on them here: Parts one, two, three, four, five and six of a Lithuanian Summer in Italy, they are all great and certainly worth looking at each of them.

Batya over at Me-Ander shows us she is great at Multi-tasking, and what a great ending to a busy day! Pop over and check out the wedding photos - Mazel Tov!! Weddings mean Presents! and Batya has a few Weddings to go to in the coming weeks.

In another post, Batya claims 'I didn't buy anything'... although I am not sure how she managed!


A Simple Jew presents some beautiful photos taken by Jack Klein in A Hachnosas Sefer Torah In Tsfat. He also shares with us his two most recent Black & White Picture Of The Week - Sunflower and Mixer Attachment, which are as usual simply stunning.

Last year A Simple Jew posted some gorgeous photos taken by his Father in The Photography Of A Simple Jew's Father - once again we are shown where ASJ gets his photography talent from in this new lot of photos from his Father; The Photography Of A Simple Jew's Father - Part II - breathtaking shots!

Willy Wonker comes to Israel??... The Streets Of Jerusalem has some interesting snaps of The Malcha Technology Park Elevator - very cool!

Rafi G from Life In Israel recently went to the Championship game of the Israel Baseball League, he has a great photo post up of the day - We win! We Win! We Win!

He also has a photo post of yesterday's shchita, but be warned, if you have a queasy stomach, then you might want to skip this one.

Now if I was to tell you to go and have a look at a photo of a rock Snoopy the Goon at Simply Jews has posted you would wonder why. Right? Well this isn't just any rock, this is Shiprock at sundown and it really is quite spectacular.

Looks like poor Snoopy needs to have more for lunch in future too, check out his post Another critter.

Planet Israel's Evan always has great photos posted, and this week presents us with Selfish? Moi?, in which he has some impressive shots of Shiloh.

Josh's Photos has posted a beautiful sunset in Caesaria Sunset.

Littlebirdies considers the future musical talent of her two children ZB and SD in her post Flute, looks to me like they have natural talent!

She also shares some great snaps of their outing to the Beach - looks like they had a great time!

Frumhouse from Little Frum House On The Prairie has some pretty photos in her post Rainy Days, go have a look!

Sarah over at Sarah's Images presents us with Phone Pics: Kite Surfers.

After spending the first 21 years of my life in Melbourne, I can't ever remember the sky so blue in winter. Amazing weather! Enjoy!


Israel In Photos shares more great snaps in Images of Israel and Images of Safed, beautiful!

Psychotoddler shares with us his only in Israel experiences in; Only in Israel #1, Only in Israel #2, Only in Israel #3, Only in Israel #4, Only in Israel #5.

Tamara Eden presents us with My Achey Breaky...LEGS and also Yes, This Really is a New Blog Post... which has some very cute photos! :)

Therapydoc has some good pics in his post The 4th Carnival of All Substances-Therefore, Choose. . .

And last but not least, we say good bye to another Jblogger Sara With No H. She shares her final blog thoughts with us in It's been an Experience.

Oh and in case you missed it, I also posted Through The Stormy Clouds a few days back, check it out if you haven't already.


That's it for another fortnight, thanks to all who submitted their posts, I hope you enjoy the round up.



It is about time some new people put their hand up to host an edition of JPix, if you would like to host an edition of JPix you can contact BagelBlogger here.

And don't forget to submit your or someone else's photo posts to be in the next edition of JPix!!

Have a great weekend!
Shabbat Shalom!

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Fishing.... For Submissions!

A couple more photos from our trip. I guess you could say they are fishing... and so am I - for submissions for JPIX! :)

JPix is due up on Thursday and I am hosting! If you have any photo posts you would like included please submit them. If you see any photo posts from other bloggers while you are blog visiting, feel free to submit them too.

I have had a quick browse of the submissions so far and it looks like this edition will be a particularly good one. Besides making sure you submit your photo posts please also check back on Thursday for the JPix round up!

For those who are wondering what JPix is...
"Simply put JPix is a carnival for Jews and their pictures, it doesn't necessarily have to be that 'joyous expression of art' which photography can capture, it doesn't have to be just about photos of Eretz Israel, though they are most welcome, its not even about communicating some deep spiritual meaning in a long photo essay, although that's alright too, its about two things. You're Jewish and you have photos you want to share, wether they be family, historical, artful, funny, quirky its about sharing."

Now I need to get to it and put all the great submissions I have so far together - don't forget to submit if you have a post!

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Through The Stormy Clouds

As I mentioned in my last post, I have been really busy working over the last couple of weeks. Part of my work included driving 2 hours on Sunday to deliver a package. Considering once I would get there it would take 10 minutes to drop off the package, I decidnger to take the whole family - we don't go on day trips very often.

It ended up being a really nice trip, the girls were so well behaved in the back seat for 2 hours and I dropped off the package with no problems at all - I didn't even get lost! Earlier on Sunday we had visitors and we didn't get to leave for our trip until 2pm, so we arrived to drop off the package at about 4 pm. At 4pm on a Sunday afternoon there are no shops open or anything like that, so we decided to take the girls down to the forshore to have a look at the boats.

The sun was setting and looked so pretty shimmering on the water, the breeze was getting colder and stronger by the minute, but I did manage to get out of the warm car and take some photos which I have posted some of today and will post a few more over the next couple of days. Enjoy!



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Still Around

It would be nice to just go out for a coffee and sit back and relax, but things have been so hectic over the last couple of weeks - hence the lack of blogging. Work, work, work, and no play!

Anyway, with a couple of days off I am hoping to get a few more posts up - we will see what happens.



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The 13th Edition of JPix Is Up!

The 13th edition of JPix is up over at BagelBlogger!

Be sure to go over and have a look at all the wonderful links, as always there are tonnes of great photos to check out.

Well done to Aaron on another fabulous edition!

Make sure you submit your blog photo post to the next edition of JPix - Jewish photo carnival using the carnival submission form. If you don't submit, you probably won't be in it (unless someone else submits for you!)

Have a great weekend!

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Get You Submission In For Fridays JPix!!

It is JPix time again! On Friday (3rd of August) Mr Bagel will be hosting the 13th Edition of JPix .
SO, do you have any photos you have taken and posted recently?? Submit your photo post to JPix or if you have photos that you have been meaning to post, now is the time to do it - just don't forget to submit to JPix!

Once you have submitted your photo posts to JPix don't forget to pop over to Mr Bagel on Friday to check out the round up. If you would like to host an edition of JPix on your blog click here to contact BagelBlogger.


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Sorry I haven't Been Around

Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I have been visiting many of your blogs, but don't always have time to leave comments, just like I haven't had much time to write on my blog either. I have been quite busy over the past couple of weeks with a stack of work to do, plus of course house work on top of that - but the days lately have been to nice to stay inside.

The girls have been spending a lot of time playing outside on the swings and in the cubby - it has been such nice warm sunny weather. While they were out playing I discovered the weeping cherry tree is covered in the most beautiful sweet smelling pale pink blossom, so I decided to take a few photos to post - I wish I could share the beautiful fragrance with you too!

Now that the days are so nice, hopefully the nights will start to warm up a bit too!

Also, I just wanted to say Mazel Tov to Sara With No H on the birth of her cute baby girl!

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A Frosty Update

Ok, so I don't live in Canada or the USA in areas where it snows, and for those of you who read this blog and actually live in an area that recieves snow fall you will probably laugh at this post. We just don't get snow where I live, in fact there really isn't many areas in Australia where it does snows, but the other morning it was so cold, we had so much frost on the ground it looked like a thin layer of snow.
When I took the girls down to the bus stop I took my camera with me and took a few quick photos.

Good news is we have had some beautiful sunny days even though we are having really cold nights! Yay!

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Welcome to the 12th edition of JPix!

Welcome to the 12th edition of JPix!

This stunning photo is from Yossi at The Next Step...

Sorry this JPix is a day late, it has been a busy kind of week with the girls going back to school after the holidays and Aaron's Birthday on Wednesday (Happy Birthday Mr Bagel! hee hee hee!), I actually forgot about JPix. Anyway, there have been a lot of really good submissions this fortnight, but first lets start with a little bit about what JPix is.

About JPix:
JPix is a fortnightly carnival started by BagelBlogger, for Jewish bloggers and the photos they take. So if you're Jewish and you have photos you want to share, whether they be family, historical, art, funny, quirky, whatever, make sure you get them into the next edition of JPix!

Thank you to all the people who have submitted photos and please remember if you do not submit, you most likely will not be included - I only post what is submitted. (you can submit for other people)

The photos featured here in this post are just a small sample of what you will see in the bloggers posts - you need to click on the links to see all the photos!

The wonderful Submissions!:

Let's get started with Jewish Blogmeister. He presents an unbelieveable view of the flood waters at Great Neck train Station in 'Jewish Blogmiester Exclusive: Pictures from the Flood!'.

Rafi G from Life In Israel has posted a very funny photo in his 'Only in Israel' post. Very cute!

Sara with No H is having trouble sleeping and this fortnight presents us with 'Delirium' - Sara, you better get used to not getting much sleep! :P Also check out more great shots from sara in 'Losing my Memories...'

I know I usually rant and rave about A Simple Jew's Black and White photos, but this one has to be one of the best of his I have seen - 'Black & White Picture Of The Week - Matryoshka Cross Section', beautiful! ASJ also posted an amazing photo by Yehoshua Halevi/Golden Light Images have a look at it in ASJ's post 'Song Of Ascent'.

Israel In Photos have some great posts up full of beautiful photos, but their most recent is 'Rosh HaNikra ' and the picture are stunning as usual!


Batya seemed to be missing Israel even before she left! She presents us with some lovely photos of trees in Israel in 'Eretz Yisrael Yaffah, The Land of Israel is Beautiful!' and also 'Fighting the Heat'. She also shares some great snaps in 'Jerusalem, again, busy day!' and she speaks up in 'I didn't have to "stand for it" and other Jerusalem adventures'.


Sarah at Sarah's View has posted some great examples of the cold and foggy weather us Aussies are enduring at the moment in 'Sites Obscured' Brrrrr! She also posts some warmer photos of her trip to the US in 'City Square'.

David at Temunot has come up with a really cool idea - 'Where in Israel', he post a photo or two from locations in Israel and we have to work out where the picture was taken. Go and have a look at the first 'Where in Israel?' and the second - 'Where in Israel 2'. We don't normally include videos in JPix but David submitted one this fortnight which I certainly feel is worth including and that is in his post 'It Only Takes 11 Minutes - Sderot', it gives us just a little insight into the terror Sderot faces.

Mottel from Letters Of Thought is pretty busy at the moment and didn't get around to submitting this fortnight, and I no longer search for submissions myself, but because Mottel is a regular submitter to JPix I just wanted to point out two of his latest posts 'The Roving Rabbis And The Roving Doctor' and 'A Story of Two Mezuzos' which include some really cool photos, do take a look.

Aaron has just gone off at me for not including some of my own posts so if you want you can click here to see them - 'Relax...' and 'Under Construction' or just scroll down the page a bit!

That's it for the 12th edition of JPix, I hope you have enjoyed it and sorry again for being a bit late.

If you would like to host an edition on your blog click here to contact BagelBlogger. It is really quite easy and fun to host and I believe a host is needed for the next edition.

July 05, 2007 Baleboosteh

Jun 22, 2007	Mr Bagel
Jun 06, 2007	Letters of Thought
May 24, 2007	Life in Israel
May 10, 2007	Temunot
Apr 26, 2007	Baleboosteh
Apr 12, 2007	Baleboosteh
Mar 26, 2007	Life of Rubin Blog
Mar 11, 2007	me-ander
Feb 26, 2007	Bagel Blogger
Feb 08, 2007	Bagelblogger

And don't forget to submit your or someone else's photo posts to be in the next edition of JPix!!

Have a great weekend!
Shabbat Shalom!

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The 50,000 Edition Of Haveil Havalim Is Up At Yid With Lid!!

Yid With Lid has done a wonderful job of putting together a giant sized 50,000th edition of Haveil Havalim. Make sure you pop on over to YWL and check it out...

If you are wondering why this edition of HH - formerly known as the '125th edition', is now known as the 50,000th edition , well, that is because it was recently Sammy's 50th Birthday and this HH post is the 1000th post on his blog! So 50 x 1000 = 50,000 and hence the 50,000th edition... anyway if you go over and take a look you will know what I am talking about!

Happy Birthday Sammy! ....And Mazel Tov on 1000 posts!



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Relax...

The gently tapered wings of swift lake swallows, cut
through the air like soft whispering sighs, while they
dart in and out of a clustered hovering mass of
mayflies, that drift just inches above the shimmering lake
that reflects the orange hued light of the setting sun.

On a floating dock, worn in spots by the rubbing of
moored boats, I sit in a weathered adirondack chair
with the purpose of only to relax to the rhythmic
rocking caused by small rolling waves from cruising
pleasure boats, with people waving as they pass by.

Looking down through the clear jade tinted waters
I notice the octagonal amber markings on a small box turtle
that seems to be ambling, rather than swimming through
the still water as it passes by, seemingly without a care
for anything but its mysterious unknown destination.

These moments pass fleetingly, but remain ingrained in
my mind for those times where I feel the sides pressing
in, my escape is into these simple moments, where all that
the world requires of you is to sit back and take in what
is offered, without asking for anything in return.


by James Bowie


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