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It's been a year and a half since the Blums instituted a chart system for keeping the kids in toe with their chores. How did it go? Well, there's good news and bad news...

When a rare snowstorm hits Jerusalem, Brian laments that 9-year-old Aviv would rather watch cartoons than frolic outside. But he's only got his father to blame.

191 new immigrants arrived in Israel on the last Nefesh b'Nefesh flight of 2007 and Brian and Jody were there to cheer them on. A first-hand description of the new style of aliyah.

Billed as a "true tale of sex, drugs and Orthodoxy," Reva Mann's new autobiography "The Rabbi's Daughter" is not as titillating as its title would make it out to be. It's actually a comfort to Jews seeking a middle ground. Brian has the review here.

Brian's family stopped had singing zemirot around the Shabbat table. That is until Brian attended a concert of Pharaoh's Daughter who have reinvented the traditional Shabbat tunes.

A Japanese company is interested in Brian's new startup and is coming to Israel to meet him. Brian prepares a demo website in Japanese. When the Japanese don't respond, Brian wonders if he has caused them to lose face.

When is a chair not just a chair? When it becomes a metaphor for seeking perfection. Brian encounters his own personal demons in the search for batter back support.

In the Blum household, children learn about "it" at age 8. Now it's Aviv's turn.

Brian's not afraid of anything. He's jumped out of an airplane and traveled around the world. But SCUBA diving scares him silly. Until he confronts his fears on a recent vacation.

After the fourth litter, Brian starts to reconsider his inadvertent role of playing birthing hospital to a family of incestuous rodents. But the pet store is full up. How will Brian deal with the ever growing population?

Brian and Jody are exploring meditation, seeking a path to Bodhichitta, or enlightenment. So how do the square starting an evening in quiet contemplation and ending it at Boogie, a raucous dance party?

Brian gets pulled over by a policewoman with an attitude. But he's done nothing wrong...or so he thinks. Can he wiggle out of a ticket this time?

The teachers have been on strike for 45 days. The finance ministry refuses to budge. Why can't the two sides come to a settlement? Brian puts the blame on a bully.

Brian's parents are moving and they're not taking all the papers and junk he's stored in his old room for the last 40 years. The time has come for a major purge. But is he up to the challenge?