Monthly Archives: December 2010

Comparison Table for Car-rental companies at Tel Aviv Airport

Hi, I am trying to get an up to date comparison table of car-rental companies at the Israeli airport Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv (TLV). In the table below you’ll find an overview of what I together with acquantances collected. Please … Continue reading

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Yellow Pages from the times of the Talmud

Today I received via e-mail a quite interesting page from the Yellow Pages during the times of the Talmud. I am wondering whether this would be a real page if Antonio Meucci or Alexander Graham Bell (the inventors of the … Continue reading

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Nice song with Moshe Giat en Zion Golan

Enjoy watching this movie with Sephardi singers (Sephardi Jews are in general Jews of Arabic or Persian descend) singing a song in Yiddish (Yiddish was and is still spoken by Jews of European descend) with minor Arabic song-styles:

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My night on the Belgian snowy motorway (23-24 December 2010)

Enjoy the photos from our nightly ramble after coming back from the ski resort on the third highest hilltop in the Belgian Ardennes (http://www.ski-baraque.be/). It was a long night, a very long night (it ook us about 12 hours instead … Continue reading

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Jochem Myjer: De rust zelve

Via uitzendinggemist kun je een zeer onrustige Jochem Myjer op het podium een geweldige show zien geven: http://humortv.vara.nl/c.343695.hele-show-de-rust-zelve.html

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Transportation lists of the transports which left from Mechelen/Malines during the holocaust

Update (15 March 2016): I have come across a list on the website of the German ´Das Bundesarchiv´´s Memorial Book (see: www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/chronicles.html.en?page=2).  I have merged their information (mainly the number of deported persons) with the information I have had before (on the website of ´Das … Continue reading

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