"Dry Bones Fights Back", the book

 In these crazy times, you might love and get strength from one or more of Yaakov's books. They also make great gifts. They are on Amazon, and some are also available on Kindle.

This cartoon is from 1994 and is one of many in Yaakov's big cartoon book collection available on Amazon called "Dry Bones Fights Back" Please check it out. I think it will be very relevant to these times.

Wishing you Shabbat Shalom, blessings and love, Sali

This is what Yaakov wrote about this cartoon, and his book, "The above cartoon shows a mother helping her kid with his homework. It is taken from our book: Dry Bones Cartoons Fight Back.
I drew the cartoon back in 1994, 26 years ago.
The book is a 148-page collection of the best of my "fighting back" cartoons.

I chose cartoons that remain meaningful, but in each, alongside my signature, is the year in which I drew it. None are Politically Correct. Most are angry. But if you are a Zionist Jew or a Righteous Gentile, every page will bring you comfort in these stressful days.

Be strong, We shall overcome. The book is on sale at Amazon http://amazon.com/author/kirschen In addition to this printed book, there is also a kindle edition (and a bookshelf of other Dry Bones books)."

 Here is the cover.

and here is another cartoon from the book

Here is a link to look at the new Kindle edition. 

This 148-page collection is called Dry Bones Cartoons Fight Back.

It's now available for Kindle at only $9.98!! 

and another great book to check out is called "Jewish Curses" by Kirschen!

 

Golda's and Our Jewish Arrogance

   Dry Bones Golden Oldies in the fond memory of Yaakov Kirschen (Dry Bones) by Sali, the LSW. (Long Suffering Wife). This cartoon is from 1973. The people change but the situation doesn't change much. This was originally in B&W. I think that Yaakov colored this and reused it about 10 years ago.

It has now been three months since Yaakov passed away. I thought that I would give you a bit of an update on how I am doing these days. Feel free to skip this long read. 

My brain fog has made me feel like I have mashed potatoes for a brain much of the time. But I noticed just a couple of days ago that the fog is starting to clear. My tears are fewer. My moments of overwhelming grief and feeling like I will die too are fewer. Everyone with experience with widowhood tells me that time makes things easier, and I see that it is true. 

It still is emotionally hard for me to do the blog postings. It is easy to find a good cartoon. There are 8 or 9 thousand of them to choose from, but it is hard emotionally for me to look at all the old cartoons. They are like looking at him, a least for me. 

Finally, today, I was steady enough to open up his laptop that he used at the rehab place for the last month or two of his life. Just because it has all of his favorite apps and programs and was so much a part of him. I am not sure why it is so hard for me. But I am taking a big gulp of air (and coffee too) and using his new laptop. Next week I will take the big step of having my computer guy, take off some of the things that I would not use, and put on to it my things, such as the bank. (Yaakov almost never dealt with money stuff. It made him very nervous, so I handled everything in the financial area.) I sometimes resented that, but now I am very happy that, unlike many widows, especially of my generation, I don't have the extra burden of suddenly learning the finances and the banking.

His laptop is much bigger, and stronger than mine. Also it has a touch screen. So I will soon start using it as mine. I wonder if other spouses find it hard in the beginning to use the things that were their spouses.

Hopefully now doing the blog postings will become much easier and I will find time and emotional space to go back to more painting time for myself. Soon maybe, I will start posting more about my paintings. I am 78 years old and reasonably healthy, so might have yet a few more years to get used to and live with being the widow of a very great man.

We have not had an unveiling yet. We will wait till his middle daughter is here from the USA, but we have put up the headstone. His daughters were responsible for the design and the wording and I think that they did a very good job.

Here is a photo of Yaakov's headstone.

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

Wishing everyone peace, health, and happiness and freedom.

I am sending a very big thank you to everyone who has donated to help the Dry Bones effort. Also, a very special thank you to all of you who have made a monthly reoccurring contribution.

Just in n case you want to donate and help his wife, (the LSW) and the cause, here is a link. It works with your credit card or with PayPal.  Donate to Dry Bones https://tiny.cc/3oncvz

ALSO PLEASE NOTE ANOTHER OPTION that is USA tax deductible.:
DONATE $50 or MORE (U.S. Tax DEDUCTIBLE)

Israel is united?

 Dry Bones Golden Oldies in the fond memory of Yaakov Kirschen (Dry Bones) by Sali, the LSW. This cartoon is from 2014.

We are sad today for our soldiers who are protecting us. And we are united in wanting what is best for our country. But we are not so united in how to achieve that.

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

Wishing everyone a very good Shabbat Shalom, health, and happiness and freedom.

I am sending a very big thank you to everyone who has donated to help the Dry Bones effort. 

Just in n case you want to donate and help his wife, (the LSW) and the cause, here is a link. It works with your credit card or with PayPal.  Donate to Dry Bones https://tiny.cc/3oncvz

ALSO PLEASE NOTE ANOTHER OPTION that is USA tax deductible.:
DONATE $50 or MORE (U.S. Tax DEDUCTIBLE)

Antisemitism from Europe

  Dry Bones Blog Golden Oldies, now coming to you by Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

 I wish that Yaakov were here to give his wisdom, but here is a golden oldie from 2014 about the situation in Europe. It is sad and shameful what is happening there.

 I see the news about the Glastonbury Festival in England, and it is so sad and shameful and frustrating.. 

It is taking me much longer than I expected to recover from the sleep deprivation and anxiety of the last 2 weeks, But I finally slept through the night last night. 

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

Wishing everyone a very good week ahead.

I am sending a very big thank you to everyone who has donated to help the Dry Bones effort. 

Just in n case you want to donate and help his wife, (the LSW) and the cause, here is a link. It works with your credit card or with PayPal.  Donate to Dry Bones https://tiny.cc/3oncvz

ALSO PLEASE NOTE ANOTHER OPTION that is USA tax deductible.:
DONATE $50 or MORE (U.S. Tax DEDUCTIBLE)

Sink the Sinai, a classic Dry Bones Golden Oldie

  Dry Bones Blog Golden Oldies, now coming to you by Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife)

 I wish that Yaakov were here to give his wisdom. Here is a classic golden oldie that is a favorite of mine. Hoping that the peace will last, but still we have the Gaza problem. 

Sink the Sinai 

This cartoon was from back in 1975.  

Back in 1982 when Israel gave the Sinai back to Egypt, we were friends with an American official who was part of the negotiating team, and he told us that Israel tried to make Egypt take Gaza as part of the deal, and Egypt refused. They well knew what Gaza was like. So Israel got stuck with it. Let's hope that the situation in Gaza will be better soon, and that all of our hostages will come home and that we will lose no more soldiers there.

I finally had a nights sleep last night without sirens. But I woke up every 3 hours, maybe out of habit. I hope that this fragile ceasefire holds. We will probably still have missiles and drones from the Houthis,  and from Gaza and Hezbollah, but those are not the level of danger as the giant ballistic missiles from  Iran. 

Many people have asked me about the Dry Bones books, so I am posting this here.

much love, and wishes for peace for us all, and to have all of our hostages released.

Sali, the LSW

Many of these old cartoons are in our Dry Bones books at Amazon. 

You can go to our Amazon author's page to see all our books.

There you can "Look Inside" and if you like them. 

You can buy these and a book-shelf of other Dry Bones books at amazon.com/author/kirschen

In the UK it's www.bit.ly/drybonesbooks

In case you want to donate and help his wife, (the LSW) and the cause, here is a link. It works with your credit card or with PayPal.  Donate to Dry Bones https://tiny.cc/3oncvz

Serving the Kool-Aid to Diaspora Jews.

According to Isi Liebler: "what is truly macabre is the behavior of sections of Diaspora Jewish communities. Fringe groups in both the U.S. and U.K. have been publicly demonstrating in favor of the Hamas killers and even holding surreal recitations of the mourner’s kaddish, naming the individuals killed. This is the equivalent of reciting kaddish for dead SS soldiers who shared the same genocidal objectives against the Jews as Hamas – truly a chilul Hashem, a desecration of God’s name.Even beyond this demented fringe, many Jews are publicly expressing grief at the death of the terrorists. Yet they do not express any sadness that our adversaries are obscenely providing human sacrifices by positioning women and children in the line of fire to capitalize on casualties so as to demonize Israel for public relations purposes.
Rabbinical sermons have referred to the bulk of those killed as innocents, even though Hamas leaders themselves claim that 85% of them were their operatives. On May 14 at its graduation and ordination ceremony, the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College shamelessly chose as its guest speaker the fiercely anti-Zionist author Michael Chabon.
Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt wrote that “it is a horrific tragedy that so many people have been killed and wounded at the Gaza border.” Would Greenblatt have said this about the masses of Nazis and German civilians killed in the course of World War ll?
There is a serious sickness among Jews when so many feel more concern about the death of those seeking to kill us than anxiety for their own kinsmen."

Gaza Terror Attack Campaign

A Hamas official on Wednesday acknowledged that 50 of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during Gaza border riots on Monday and Tuesday were members of the Islamist terrorist group, bringing the total number of known members of terror groups among the fatalities up to 53.

Palestinian Arab Kids

For any of us in the Western world, the image of our children is best expressed by the Peanuts kids.

That's why I thought of them when trying to deal with expressing my horror at seeing Hamas using their kids to be killed in order to push their political goal of destroying Israel.