An early Happy Chanukka and a Peaceful Shabbat

 Dry Bones Golden Oldie, by Sali the LSW.

I saw Sufganiot (Jelly Dounuts) already on sale today in Israel! So Hannuka is just around the corner. Hopefully, a time for unity. Wishing everyone a great and a peaceful Shabbat.

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

Shabbat Shalom and unity to all of Am Israel

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Protests

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW.

This cartoon was done in April, 2023, six months before Oct. 7th. Today we are divided again, with a huge protest and blocking of the roads in Israel by a part of our religious sector who don't want to serve in the IDF.

Sad.

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Occupied Territories

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. This classic cartoon is from 1977. It was a full page in the Jerusalem Post. As there is now controversial talk about Israel passing legislation annexing Judea and Sameria, I thought this cartoon would be interesting.

Prime Minister Begin asked Yaakov for the original and gave it to President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Washington, and Carter wrote a note on a copy of it and sent the signed copy back to Kirschen, (see the right hand center for the hand written note).

By the way, the controversial bill needs to pass 2 more times before becoming law, so that is very unlikely to happen.

Also, I have the cartoon with Carter's original signature. I don't know what it is worth, but would be willing to sell it.

Wishing everyone a very good week.

 

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Politicians of the Day

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. This cartoon is from 2014. Wishing everyone a good week. Here in Israel, we just went off of daylight savings time. The world is a crazy place these days, but maybe it always was.

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Disarming Hamas?

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. This cartoon is from 2009. Some things don't seem to change much.

Much love, and wishes for peace!

Vice President Vance is in Israel, trying to work out next stages. I hope that he will be able to succeed, but time will tell. 

More of our deceased hostages have come home, leaving 13 still in Gaza.

We are celebrating for the moment, but with the knowledge that the future will see many challenges.

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Terror Tunnels, whack a mole

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. This cartoon is from 2014. We are now in the period called, "After the Holidays", where everyone goes back to work and to school, and life returns to "normal". It looks like the ceasefire is semi, sort of, holding, but still IDF soldiers are being killed by terrorists popping up from tunnels in Gaza. We hope for a better future and wait and see. We are so happy and releived to have all of the living hostages home.

Much love, and wishes for peace!

Even if it is only temporary, we are all feeling a sigh of relief. 

Thank you to President Trump!  and Thank you to Prime Minister Netanyahu! Thank you to all of our soldiers!

We are celebrating for the moment, but with the knowledge that the future will see many challenges.

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Hoping for Peace in the Middle East

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. This cartoon was done for David Singer in 2019. I thought it might be appropriate now too. Hoping for peace in the Middle East. And we are so very glad to have the living hostages returned. And we are hoping that all of the rest of our deceased hostages will be returned soon also. Shabbat Shalom!

Much love, and wishes for peace!

Even if it is only temporary, we are all feeling a sigh of relief. 

Thank you to President Trump!  and Thank you to Prime Minister Netanyahu! Thank you to all of our soldiers!

We are celebrating for the moment, but with the knowledge that the future will see many challenges.

Shabbat Shalom and Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Joyful Simhat Torah with Hostages Returning

Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. This cartoon is from 2009

Wishing everyone a Happy Simhat Torah! 

We are all so very happy and relieved to see all of the 20 living hostages coming home today! I watched TV since the early hours of the morning as the first 7 hostages were turned over and are now back  in Isaeili hands. The rest are supposed to be turned over in about an hour. I am so happy to be able to see this day. I wish that Yaakov could too. In any case, who knows what the future will bring, and what sort of ceasefire it will be, and for how long. But today is a day of joy for the whole country and for the Jewish people. It is so fitting that this is Erev Simhat Torah. (the day that we dance with the Torah)

Much love, and wishes for peace!

Thank you to President Trump!  and Thank you to Prime Minister Netanyahu! 

We are celebrating for the moment, but with know that the future will see many challenges.

 Hag Sameach and Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Happy Sukkot and Happy Hostage Deal

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies by Sali, the LSW. Wishing everyone a Happy Sukkot! We are super joyful that it looks like a deal has been struck to send the hostages home. Until this actually happens, we're still in cautious optimism mode, but it looks good. Have a joyful, happy holiday!

Much love, and wishes for peace and for all of our hostages to be released NOW and for our soldiers to be safe. 

I am hoping that there will be no need to wish for the return of the hostages soon, as we are all really looking forward to seeing them very soon. The word at the moment is that the 20 still alive should be home by Monday. We are celebrating, but with fear of something going wrong till the very last minute. 

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Erev Succot (Sukkot) 2025

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies in memory of Yaakov Kirschen by Sali, the LSW. The holiday of Succot starts tonight, Monday and lasts for a week.

Here is a Dry Bones cartoon for Succot from 2009.

This cartoon is sort of the same theme as the one that I posted yesterday, of storm clouds gathering. We are all holding our breaths thinking that maybe, perhaps, the hostages will be coming home this week. And maybe we see a glimer of the possibility of peace, at least for a while. But we see the storm clouds. The Houthis are sending cluster bomb missiles almost everyday. Iran has made specific threats to send ballistic missiles over Succot. So it is both a tense and a hopeful time here in Israel. Also we see that Jews in Europe and America are in danger of being attacked and murdered just for being Jewish. More storm clouds, yet all this week we gather for festivities in our flimsy huts and wish for respite from the storm.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and peaceful holiday. Hag Sameach!

Much love, and wishes for peace and for all of our hostages to be really released NOW and for our soldiers to be safe.

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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Succot starts tomorrow evening

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies in the memory of Yaakov Kirschen by Sali, the LSW.

The holiday of Succot starts tommorrow, Monday, night. Here is a cartoon for Succot from 2006. We are all hoping that this holiday will see our hostages coming home. Meanwhile, we wait.

Also, Carin M Smilk from the JNS just published a really nice last interview with Yaakov. She came to visit him and did the interview 2 weeks before he passed away. It also has a lot of photos. Here is a link to the article at JNS.

https://www.jns.org/if-its-a-success-then-youve-won-yaakov-kirschen-on-a-career-of-cartooning/

Much love, and wishes for peace and for all of our hostages to be really released NOW and for our soldiers to be safe.

Blessings to you all, and your family, and loved ones... peace, health, happiness and freedom, love, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

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