A Light unto the Nations, a Passover Deal

 A Light unto the nations, a Passover Deal. Dry Bones cartoon from 2007. Happy Passover!

Here in the center of the country, yesterday, we went all day without a siren or missiles. But then in the middle of the night we had two, and already this morning we have had two. While the north is under almost constant bombardment, and the south is almost as bad. The quiet is almost more disconcerting, as one is always waiting and alert. It is a very strange time that we are dealing with. But unfortunately not new for the Jewish people. But most of us are holding up fairly well to the tension, and trying to go about our daily lives as much as possible. I feel that we really are "A Light Unto the Nations"

Wishing you a Chag Pessach Sameach, A Very Happy Passover to all!

and a very Happy Easter Holiday to all of our Christian friends!

Wishing you health and happiness, prosperity and peace.

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Much love and joyful New Year of 2026. Blessings to you and your families and loved ones.

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Happy Passover! Chag Pesach Sameach

 Happy Passover! Tonight is Erev Passover, Seder Night. Chag Pesach Sameach to all! 

This Dry Bones cartoon from 2001 feels especially true today. Here in central Israel, we have had about 6 missile attacks and sirens in the last 3 hours of this morning. (I have lost count actually). Those people who are cooking for tonight have found it especially challenging.  I am expecting lots more sirens today and tonight. Our enemies know that we are celebrating Passover and will do their best to disrupt us. But we will persevere. by Sali, the LSW 

Wishing you a Chag Pessach Sameach, A Very Happy Passover to all!

Wishing you health and happiness, prosperity and peace.

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Thank you so much to all of you who have donated! And thank you to all who have written me beautiful notes.

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Pre-Pessah Cravings

 Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2004. Yaakov always kept to the tradition/rule of not eating matzah and other Passover food before the holiday. I was raised in a Reform household, so do not know how much of a real rule this is. But on the Passover before he passed away, and he was at a rehabilitation center, they converted everything over to Pessah food about a week before the holiday for ease. So, I am assuming that it is just a tradition. Suddenly all of the stores are filled with Passover products and it is all very tempting for someone like me, who really loves matzah. In a few days, here in Israel, all of the food stores will have many of their shelves covered and hidden with brown paper, or colored plastic cloth. They cover the non kosher for Passover products so that you cannot buy them. I think it is a useful, lovely and unique tradition. 

This year, I have signed up to go to a Chabad Seder in Raanana, a town nearby. It will probably be mostly lone soldiers. And even though I am not a soldier, I am lone too. I think it should be very interesting and fun.  I wish you all a very good holiday.

Wishing you a Chag Pessach Sameach, A Very Happy Passover to all!

Wishing you health and happiness, prosperity and peace.

Please consider donating to Dry Bones

Thank you so much to all of you who have donated! And thank you to all who have written me beautiful notes.

  I am so very thankful for so much!

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Happy Passover! Dry Bones and the LSW could use your help this year

Dear readers and supporters, Sali, the LSW (Long Suffering Wife) here. First, wishing everyone a joyful, healthful and peaceful Passover holiday from Yaakov and myself. We are so very grateful for the many supporters who have given funds, prayers, help in many ways. I apologize for not quickly thanking you all personally. I have been very overwhelmed and am now sick myself.

Yaakov was taken to the hospital with pneumonia last week. He was sent back to the rehabilitation after intense treatment and testing. He was also having strong hallucinations and confusion. It seems to have been caused by both fever and medications. He still has lingering pneumonia but is off the meds and getting slowly better again. But he is very weak. 

I however, ignoring warnings to rest, as there is just no one to replace me, got very sick with sinus infection and pneumonia. I wish that I had a wife!!!! I ran a 38 degree plus temperature for 5 days and finally my doctor changed the antibiotic and it has seemed to help, so today finally my temperature is down to normal, but now my back is having painful spasms. Probably I was in bed too much. 

We are having to find a new caregiver for when Yaakov is able to come home. I rented an electric crane from Yad Sarah (a wonderful organization by the way). and now we have the electric wheelchair that I bought, so with a strong caretaker, we should hopefully be able to get by. I am told though that we might need to hire 2 caretakers to be able to lift him. He is scheduled to come home on May 5th.

In any case I will have to pay double salaries for 2 months as our old caretaker of almost 6 happy years, has to be paid a very large pension and an extra month salary. I have most of it saved up, but it is coming out to more than I expected. But I am sure that I will be more optimistic and cheerful once I am feeling better physically. There is a lot of paperwork and computer work to do that seems very daunting at the moment. 

Yaakov is keeping on occasionally doing his cartoons. We have the help of our graphic design friend S.Kim Glassman and she has made the doing of the cartoons possible. He feels the calling to be able to help fight for the cause of the Jewish People with his satirical  cartoons. Please help if you are able, and I totally understand if you are not able, then please help with your good thoughts and prayers. I, and we, appreciate it all and are very very grateful. Here is a Passover cartoon to enjoy! We pray for the hostages and our soldiers too. Much love to all!

 You are welcome to pray for Yaakov, if you do that sort of thing, his mother's name was Molly. In case you might want to contribute, here are the links. To support DRY BONES directly (through PayPal or your Credit Card, tiny.cc/3oncvz Or, if you need U.S. tax deductible, DONATE $50 or MORE (U.S. Tax DEDUCTIBLE) https://tinyurl.com/5cc33zd much love and gratitude, Sali, the LSW

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Snapshot from GA

Bones and the LSW

I thought you might like to see a snapshot of me and the LSW (Long Suffering Wife) taken at our Dry Bones Haggadahs booth at the "GA" convention in Jerusalem last week. * * * Go to store.drybones.com to peek inside the Haggadah, find out why the Haggadahs come in "plain brown boxes", and maybe decide to order a box of Haggadahs for you and yours (while supplies last, and don't say we didn't warn you).

Shipping the Haggadahs

The Haggadahs in our Livingroom

If you ordered copies of the Dry Bones Haggadah, they're now in the mail or about to be. * * * We're not on Amazon. This is a personal outreach from us to friends and fans and those they love. The LSW (Long Suffering Wife) and I are now boxing up and shipping out the hot off the press, first edition copies of our gorgeous Dry Bones Passover Haggadahs. Our inventory is warehoused in our livingroom, and we're shlepping the books to mail from our local Post Office. * * * Go to store.drybones.com to peek inside the Haggadah, find out why the Haggadahs come in "plain brown boxes", and maybe decide to order a box of Haggadahs for you and yours (while supplies last, and don't say we didn't warn you).

03 - the Blackout

Thursday, October 31, (continued)

"What else could possibly go wrong? We were soon to find out."

 -the closing entry in previous Diary Episode 02

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New Print Run!
Our printer agrees to do a new print run with careful quality control!  But we'll get the Haggadahs just hours before the opening of the  General Assembly of the Jewish Federations  where we've taken a Dry Bones Haggadahs booth to launch our "campaign to make our Haggadah THE Haggadah for 2014 and generations to come".  

Back to Work!
 as explained previously, Kim, our talented book designer and cover artist had come to visit so we could work on designing the Dry Bones Haggadah "roll up" standing sign for our booth at the  GA. ...and so we settled down to do just that. We've already done a large cartoon backdrop for the booth which shows Mr. Shuldig and a Haggadah. It is wider than it is tall. The "roll up" is taller than it is wide. I'll have to redraw the picture so that it is vertical. Simple.


The Blessing:
In Israel rain is a blessing. The land, after our long hot summers yearns for the refreshing water of our rainy season. And so, suddenly the skies opened and thunderstorms broke out. Unfortunately the brief torrewntial downpour took out the electricity in our neighborhood. Kim's computer could continue on battery power but how could I draw in the pitch blackness of the total darkness? By the way, pitch blackness in contemporary Hebrew is "Egyptian Darkness" pronounced Hoshech Mitzrayim  ( referring to the Passover plague that the Egyptians were hit with). Hmmm.

And So:The LSW held a flashlight while I drew the line drawing to scan which Kim could then color on her Mac. So far, so good, but then, having drawn the cartoon, we realized that without electricity the scanner wouldn't scan! Kim came up with the answer. I held the flashlight to light my drawing, while she shot the cartoon with her iphone and then emailed it to herself, and opened it on her Mac.

The LSW snapped a photo of Kim and me. Her flash has illuminated the total darkness. Kim is on the left facing the bright screen of her laptop Mac: I am to her right on a couch, behind one of the many many candles  that the LSW had set out. One is tiny and on the floor (bottom right, next to chair leg) a third is above and behind that.

Below is the drawn-in-the-dark "roll up" sign after Kim's coloring. Not bad.

* * * This is Haggadah Diary Episode 03 Click for Haggadah Diary Episode 02 Click for Haggadah Diary Episode 01

To Be Continued . . .

You can get your set of haggadahs (in plain brown boxes) in one of two ways. One, online at the http://store.drybones.com and two, at our booth at the upcoming General Assembly of the Jewish Federations to be held in Jerusalem on Nov 10-11.