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After a short Pesach break (we think the Carnival went away to Miami this year), Hevel Haveilim is back! What is Hevel Haveilim, you ask? It is Hebrew for "Vanity of Vanities," and it is the title for the Jewish blogosphere's own Carnival of the Vanities. You can thank Soccer Dad for starting it up. Basically, if you wrote something about Judaism or Israel on your blog, and you want free press, you tell the VoV host and you get a nifty little link along with a snappy line or two about your post. You can find links to past editions of VoV here.

This week's edition has been updated (as of Monday morning). Anything you send after this update will get forwarded to our next host, Shiloh Musings, though you can just email her yourself at shilohmuse [at] yahoo [dot] com.

And now, without (much) further ado, I give you Hevel Haveilim #18...

As with any off-site link on devarim.com, I make no endorsement of any posts linked-to below, or any other content you may find on those sites.

Josh Cohen of Multiple Mentality takes a look at just how much it costs to be a fully observant Jew around Passover. It's quite a lot.

A little while ago, Atilla wrote about the four stages of kitniot (you know...denial, anger, fear, and humor), not from a halachic point of view as much as from a psychological point of view. Or, as some readers Pillage Idiot readers would probably say, from a juvenile point of view. (Yes, yes, even though Pesach has been over for a week, you should read it.)

Our founder Soccer Dad blogs about Dan Okrent's piece on the New York Times coverage of Israel.

The bush was not consumed in Dzeni's Yom HaShoah-directed fractal art.

Cosmic X wrote up a piece about last week's Jonathan Pollard rally in Jerusalem. Some of you may be surprised about who showed up.

Over at Biur Chametz, Zman Biur wrote a bit about Jeff Jacoby on U.S. media bias. I've been told that it got a mention on Backspin.

Little Green Footballs posted a picture of a Suicide Blimp.

A recent Washington Post headline reads: Some Palestinian Aid to go to Hadassah, Israel. You can read the Elder of Ziyon's take on it here. Or, for a slightly different point of view, check out Mystery Achievement's post, When Democracy is Beautiful.

I wouldn't be truly vain if I didn't mention my own blog here, so allow me to direct you to this discussion about sheitals (you must read the comments).

Finally, our next host, the muse, was just bursting with good stuff from her own blogs to share with us. It seems that there are those who call Baile Rochel the Erma Bombeck of YESHA. Two more in the saga came out recently. Me-ander also takes wisdom . When the muse muses in Shiloh, no one's immune...and here's a proposal to make more countries recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital

The muse has next week's Hevel Haveilim! Send your submissions to shilohmuse [at] yahoo [dot] com.