Welcome Zeidy and Dina

Zeidy and Margaret stopped by our home on Monday Night, May 21st for some coffee and dessert. They were in Israel for about a week. They spent some time up North visiting relatives and spent Shavuos with Eli Weiss and the Somogyis in Yerushalayim.



Aunt Dina was also here with her fiancee and their entourage to celebrate Benjamin Eidman's bar-mitzvah on Thursday morning May 24th. We were invited to the Bar Mitzvah in Old City under Robinson's arch in the Davidson Southern Excavation Center, followed by lunch at the Ticho House in Downtown Yerushlayaim. Fay and the kids also visited Dina at the Mount Zion Hotel on Friday, which involved some swimming for Elisheva and Ezra. Uncle Eliezer, Aunt Batsheva and cousin Esti also came by.

Jessica Comes for Shabbos

The Gersten's welcome cousin Jessica Felber for Shabbos. She was here for over a month with her school visiting and touring Israel. She gets to spend her last Shabbos here in Israel with us and we are thrilled to have the honor. Jessica will be flying out Sunday back to San Diego. We hope to see her back in Har Nof IY"H next year when she spends next year here at seminary.
We apologize that Ezra had to scratch his eye precisely when the picture was taken and we didn't have a better one. However that is a cute picture of Ezra and Elisheva on the wallpaper of the computer - don't you think???

A New World Record

Elisheva Leah Gersten has just broke the new world record for vertical stacking of Jenga blocks end to end with 11. Witnesses did claim that Elisheva actually had stacked 12 blocks before Abba returned home from Maariv on Motzai Shabbos, but a photograph to verify the event was unattainable.

Elisheva challenges any of her cousins (or their parents) to beat her verticle stack of eleven free standing blocks and send a picture or video to her. Elisheva is also planning to write a book about techniques and strategies in block stacking. She is only waiting for Abba, Ima or her Morah to teach her how to write. But she is available for consulting and private tutoring sessions at affordable hourly rates.