{"id":1260,"date":"2011-12-07T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2011-12-07T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:58:21","slug":"mixed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/07\/mixed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I had a most pleasant experience. I taught my first class in a program to train marriage counselors. I left Modi’in for Jerusalem early in the morning, missing breakfast, to avoid rush hour traffic. I had not yet met any of the students and was pleased to find a room full of interesting, bright, and versatile women. What a pleasure it was to meet them! I look forward to spending time with them in the weeks and months ahead.<\/p>\n

After three hours of teaching, I headed back home to Modi’in and on the way, passed a sign that looked like this:<\/p>\n

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I must have been hungry, because a quick glance had me thinking that instead of Magen David, it said “Haagen Daz.”<\/p>\n

But I’m not the only one who’s mixed up. The International Red Cross has made Magen David Adom drop its six pointed star and instead adopt a red “crystal” as its symbol when appearing outside of the country’s green line so as to not offend the Palestinians. You<\/strong> figure out the logic to that! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I had a most pleasant experience. I taught my first class in a program to train marriage counselors. I left Modi’in for Jerusalem early in the morning, missing breakfast, to avoid rush hour traffic. I had not yet met any of the students and was pleased to find a room full of interesting, bright, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[93,40],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-ramblings","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t