This New Year, we thank ?G-d for having given us the strength to persevere, the wisdom to make the right decision and the humbleness to cherish our friends.
Thank you for blessing my family, including my mother, Dylan and Mani, and empowering me to become a better person.
I wish the entire community a happy, blessed and healthy New Year.
Lori Aron, advertising executive
Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 September 2010 12:41 )
Read more...The floods in Pakistan defy belief for their persistence and destruction. After heavy rains comes gradual relief — usually. But in the case of Pakistan the rivers were rising even a month after the rains. The humanitarian crisis is enormous. Millions have been left homeless.
Not, one would hope, a time for politics. But hope again. Hope in vain. We have this from Edina Lekovic, communications director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (based in the US):
On February 23, 1944, Anne Frank wrote about her beloved chestnut tree, which she could glimpse from her hiding place:
“From my favorite spot on the floor Ilook up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the sea gulls and other birds as they glide on the wind.”
Trapped by the extremes of adolescence and the unrelenting hand of evil, she affirmed that people were essentially good at heart, fantasized about being a great writer one day, and hung her hopes on a spreading chestnut tree.
The raven-haired author died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in March of 1945.
Military operations and the evaluation of military personnel are not our field of expertise. Still, we cannot help but raise an eyebrow at the replacement of Israel’s Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
He has held his position for four years, and now been designated for retirement. Customarily, the chief-of-staff’s four-year term is extended for another year. Ashkenazi’s wasn’t. This is most puzzling, not because we have any reason to doubt his replacement, Major General Yoav Galant, but because of Ashkenazi’s stellar record.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 August 2010 13:40 )
Read more...Rosalie Brenman is much remembered for her dedication to the disabled children of ALYN Hospital in Israel, but that hardly tells the story. It was not just that Rosalie Brenman was dedicated and persistent in putting on dinners and events for ALYN year after year; it was how she did it. She did it with class, with charm, with more than a bit of flamboyance, yet never overdone.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:55 )
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