Good Luck to the Chosen Bloggers!
There just ended--in case you live under a rock, or are not a blogger (same difference)--a contest to choose several bloggers to go to Israel and participate in person at the Jewish Bloggers Convention sponsored by Nefesh b'Nefesh to be held in Jerusalem on Sept. 13th . The winner would fly free (NY to Tel-Aviv, that is) and would be assigned to an oleh family (a family making aliyah, moving to Israel) and would blog about their experience. I was shocked and thrilled (well, not so shocked; I was actually thinking of her and hoping she'd do it. . . ) when Ye'he Sh'mey Raba Mevorach of the Every Day and its Challenges blog asked me if I wanted to be nominated (are you kidding ?!). To make a long story longer, she did-and this is what happened: 1) I was thrilled, 2)I told my kids there was a smidgen of a chance I would be there next week (but don't bet on it), 3) I sent them all Ye'he 's beautiful nominating post (click on link above), and (drum roll) 4) ...