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This week, we are hosting Haveil Havalim. Haveil Havalim is a roundup of posts from different Jewish and Israeli blogs. It is organized by Jack and hosted by different Jewish bloggers each time. This is my second time hosting it so, please, send me all your constructive criticism so that next time will be better! I posted a post not long ago on why I thought such a project was very good.

To submit post for the next edition, click here.With Ellul coming in, with the American elections and with a lot of small things to comment on, there are a lot of quality posts included in this edition. I invite all the Haveil Havalim visitors to also look around our blog. We hope you will find some quality material which will convince you to become regular visitors at Tzipiyah.com. And now, here are the posts!

Culture

JPix presents Jpix 18th Chai “It’s Alive” Edition posted at Little Frumhouse on the Prairie, presenting another Jewish Blog carnival.

Ben-Yehudah presents Where Do These People Come From? posted at Esser Agaroth.

SnoopyTheGoon presents Patrick West - who does he think he is? posted at SimplyJews.

Rivka with a capital A presents “But She’s Not Wearing Any Clothes!” posted at Coffee and Chemo.It’s an interesting post on an issue which came up in the new TV show in Israel called Srugim detailing the struggles of Religious Jewish singles living in Jerusalem in this mid to late twenties.

History

Sammy Benoit presents Dance at Dachau-The Munich Massacre 36 Years ago Today posted at YID With LID.

Humor

Heshy presents Ever try and open a kosher airplane meal? posted at Frum Satire, a great video of him trying to open a kosher meal on an Elal plane.

Cosmic X presents Cosmic X in The Jewish Press! posted at ****** Cosmic X in Jerusalem ******, showing how he was named as a picture contributor on the Jewish Press - Skoyach!.

Benji Lovitt presents I Don’t Even Know What to Say (But It’s Not B’tayavon) posted at What War Zone??? commenting on an advertisement he saw .

Benji Lovitt presents The Idiot’s Guide to Finding a Job in Israel | JobMob posted at JobMob, saying, “I blog for WhatWarZone.com but this is my guest post on JobMob.co.il.”, the post is about finding a job in Israel.

Israel

muse presents Tell It At The Tel posted at Shiloh Musings describing a trip to Tel Shiloh, with a beautiful picture of the place..

JC presents With Perfect Faith posted at SimplyJews on driving in Israel.

A Soldier’s Mother presents Ima, I’m in the middle of nowhere posted at A Soldier’s Mother, saying, “I started this blog about 18 months ago, as my son entered the Israeli army. It’s been a long but amazing run. Hope you’ll take the time to read some.” I looked around the blog and it’s very interesting - a recommended read!

Mindy presents Walking through the tunnel to get to the other side. Binyanei Ha’Umah. posted at Turquoise, Purple, and Scarlet, posting great pictures of a familiar place in Israel.

Avraham Rephael (aka Bar Kochba) presents From the Farthest Reaches posted at For Zion’s Sake,  describing his take on our currently unfolding redemption/

Heshy presents Should there be a dress code at the Kotel? posted at Frum Satire with a GREAT picture :-).

Baila Brecher presents One year. No, really. posted at Ill call Baila for who it’s been a year since her Aliyah.

Harry presents Google maps for Israel have arrived posted at the view from here.

Harry presents Jerusalem Strolls: HaNeviim and Ethiopia St. - Jerusalemite.net posted at Jerusalemite blog taking us on a stroll in Jerusalem.

Harry presents A conversation with Eetta Prince-Gibson, editor-in-chief of ‘The Jerusalem Report’ - Jerusalemite.net posted at Jerusalemite blog, an interview with an influential reporter.

Cosmic X presents The Observation Tower on Mount Tir’an posted at ****** Cosmic X in Jerusalem ****** taking us with him to Mount Tir’an.

Soccer Dad presents Visual proof of the siege posted at Soccer Dad, pointing to the hypocricy of a certain “peace activist”.

Sammy Benoit presents Peace Now: Thirty Years of Stupidity and Lies posted at YID With LID.

Sammy Benoit presents B’Tselem is Promoting B’ullcrap! posted at YID With LID.

Judaism

muse presents Divine Punishment? Not In This World posted at Shiloh Musings on Ellul.

Avraham Rephael (aka Bar Kochba) presents The Prince of Darkness Exposed posted at The Truth About Moshiach.

rickismom presents Elul, Shofer,Chickens, and Teshuva (Repentance) posted at Beneath the Wings, saying, “Actually, the category is a bit spiffy– is humor and ethics, actually….”

Ben-Yehudah presents Yes, Michael, There Is A God. posted at Esser Agaroth about God’s way of judging the nations’ relationship to Israel through historical events.

Mikeinmidwood presents Mike In Midwood: YESHIVA A VERY SANITARY ENVIRONMENT posted at Mike In Midwood, criticising the unsanitary nature of yeshivas.

A Simple Jew presents Advice For Chodesh Elul posted at A Simple Jew.

muse presents “Hers?” posted at me-ander.

Shira Salamone presents What or who is out of whose control? (Response to YD) posted at ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT.

Mordechai Torczyner presents Elul Panic Attack posted at Rechovot: A Place to Expand.

ari presents Lion of Zion: Don’t Increase Yeshivah Teachers’ Salaries posted at Ari’s Blog.

Personal

muse presents Amazing–Is This For Ellul? posted at me-ander responding to criticism she got at the Jbloggers convention - a well written response.

Ernesto Maitim presents Batabatuta in Israel posted at My Share of Sun in Israel.

Mottel presents The Rest of my Summer I and Lost in the Alps posted at Letters of Thought talking about the end of his summer in camp in Europe.

EndOfWorld presents Cleaning Lady Crazy posted at It’s The End Of The World As We Know It- Syndrome, saying, “Just a funny story of my experience having a cleaning lady over”

Mindy presents On Starting School in the 19th Year posted at A Million Brilliant Lights, saying, “This post is about the feelinge behind a new start, the idealism with which we begin, and the eventual fading of our passion.”

Rivka presents Breakthrough or breakdown? part 2 posted at Ha’azina Tefilati.

Mordechai Torczyner, a Rabbi, presents I hate the rabbi’s speech posted at Rechovot: A Place to Expand.

JackB presents A Blogging Milestone- Six Thousand Posts posted at Random thoughts- Do they have meaning?, celebrating his 6000th blog spot - Mazal Tov! and Skoyach!.

JackB presents Script posted at Seraphic Secret.

Yitzchak Goodman presents Yvonne Ridley joins the Judeopundit team! posted at Judeopundit.

ALN presents Back to School posted at Nad-ned Nad-ned, saying, “Continuing to keep the balance is always more of a challenge when the school year — i.e. work year — begins.”

Hadassah presents Still Waters posted at In the Pink.

Shira Salamone presents Reminder: NYC-area bloggers’ picnic, Sept. 14! posted at ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT, saying, “The Punster and I hope to see bloggers from our general neighborhood at the New York City metropolitan area bloggers’ picnic on Sunday, September 14!”

Politics

Bennett Ruda presents Is Sarah Palin Pro-Israel: See For Yourself! (3 Updates) posted at Daled Amos, with very convincing images on the subject.

Bennett Ruda presents Alaska and Operation Magic Carpet posted at Daled Amos once again discussing the Palin pick.

Bennett Ruda presents The Latest Oddity In The AIPAC Spy Case posted at Daled Amos.

The Whited Sepulchre presents “The Jewel of Medina”, Sherry Jones, Random House, and Censorship in the name of safety posted at The Whited Sepulchre, saying, “Random House has withdrawn a novel from publication because a small group might be offended. (Hint: they’re not Jewish.)”

Ben-Yehudah presents Sarah Palin posted at Esser Agaroth, a commentary on the choice of Sarah Palin.

Torah

Dixie Yid presents Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh Author U.S. Tour - Elul/September 2008 Schedule posted at Dixie Yid - Thoughts on life and Chassidus, where he has posted the U.S. speaking schedule for Rav Itamar Shwartz, the author of the Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh seforim. He will be speaking in Boca Raton, Manhattan, Baltimore, Monsey, Woodmere, Far Rockaway/Five Towns, Northern New Jersey and Brooklyn. He is also available for private meetings. Click on the link for more information!”

Ilana-Davita presents Psalm 27 and Evil-Doers posted at Ilana-Davita.

Cosmic X presents Elul Thoughts #1 posted at ****** Cosmic X in Jerusalem ******. This is another great post on Ellul. I am starting to think I should have made an Ellul section :-).

ari presents Ketiv-Keri to Distinguish Aramaic Dialects in Sefer Daniel posted at Ari’s Blog.

That concludes this edition. To submit your blog article to the next edition of haveil havalim using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

It has been a pleasure to post the carnival this week and I encourage all to participate in the future! Please, leave your comments so that I know how to improve the carnival next time I will make it. And once again, look around Tzipiyah.com .