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This past week was the first Jewish Blogger’s Conference in Jerusalem. If you want to hear more about it, I suggest you read: Baila, Mother in Israel, Carl in Jerusalem, Jameel at Muqata, Joe Settler, Batya, WestbankMama and FrumSatire who were actually there, and then finish up with SuperRaizy who was in New York but blogged as if she were there.
I want to highlight one blogger in particular:
RivkA at Coffee and Chemo.
RivkA had the guts to ask the panel questions at the conference; I believe the question was about increasing blog traffic. But in general RivkA has a lot of guts. She writes about living with cancer. And she really lives. Her post about walking around the walls of Jerusalem on Tisha B’Av was particularly memorable. She talks about her support group, and how half the group doesn’t show up because they don’t feel well enough to come. But she clearly gets a lot out of the support. So, as I probably get different traffic to my blog than she gets to hers, I’m wondering if I can send you on over to Jerusalem and her blog to read a couple of posts on cancer survival. And about living.
I’m trying to find a post on her blog where she explains the capital A, as in RivkA, but I can’t.
Update: see Mother in Israel’s comment below, where she explains the accent is on the second syllable.
I visit her blog regularly and I am impressed too by her detemination.
I’ll step in to answer: She prefers the accent on the second syllable. When I mentioned my husband that I had met [insert her English name that I knew her by] in Israel after many years, he immediately said, “You mean RivKA.” Maybe the last *two* letters should be in caps.
Hi, Thanks for visiting my blog. I like your posts and wish I had more time to read Coffee and chemo and many others that are so good and so well written, but work, family, and life sort of limit the number of hours in a day.
I liked your sky pictures from N.J.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks for sharing Leora – what a remarkable and inspiring woman.
Thank you for linking to my post.
RivkA is truly an extraordinary person. I really admire her optimism and how much she enjoys her life despite her illness. It reminds me to be grateful for all that I have.
Great blog!
DoubleTapper
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She writes a great blog that I can’t stop reading.
RivkA’s the one who got me blogging in the first place… just by her energetic, encouraging style. Oh, and I’ve had the privelege of knowing her for quite a few years, pre-blog. The RivkA you read is the real thing, every syllable!
BTW – Thanks for the listing!
ALN
Wow, I never saw this post until now! Thanks so much!!
It took me a while to get “into” the whole blogosphere thing. I was blogging for over a year before I started reading other blogs (too caught up in my own little world… for obvious reasons).
It took me forever to get around the posting about the capital A thing and even longer to put a permanent link up on my blog page, but it is there now, in the upper right hand corner. Or just click here.
RivkA, glad you saw this, though I feel strange about it since it was a while ago (last summer?).
I can understand being self-involved in your situation… nice to have you visit here!