News and Reflections
Reflections on Prayers for Good Health
February 2011 Too many of us know, from personal experience, what it’s like when someone close to us is diagnosed with a serious illness. You feel like you have to do something… everything and anything possible in order to help. You go to the best doctors in that...
Reflections on the Prayers for Purim
March 2011 I can’t get those faces of the Fogel family out of my mind. Udi and Ruth, the mother and father, little Yoav and Elad the sons, and Hadas the baby girl. Friday night, two knife-wielding terrorist monsters infiltrated the Samaria community of Itamar, just...
Reflections on the Yizkor Service
May 2011 Last week I attended the ceremony commemorating Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror at my son’s school. Every school, every city, every small community, has a ceremony commemorating the country’s heroes-- those who fell in the...
Reflections on the Prayer For Our Children
June 2011 Today is June 14, but it is also the 12th day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, a month which boasts the Jewish holiday of Shavuot- Pentecost- the holiday celebrating the Giving of our Torah. It’s a very special holiday and a very special month… a time in...
People in My Neighborhood: Meet Mr. Gorman
I was walking down my block,Hashikma Road, the other day and passed #20. There was a little red tricycle parked outside and a small plastic slide perched on the front lawn. I still do a double take when I realize there is a new, young family living there. To me,...
Exciting Israeli Election – January 8, 2012
We are just two weeks away from national elections in Israel and it is, indeed, a unique election campaign. Not so much because the parties have changed their strategies or because the campaign slogans are surprising, but because, for the first time in decades,...
Wedding – September 6, 2011
Editor's Note: Because you've been with us through so much, we've joyfully included some of the pictures from the Baras wedding for you, a part of our family. The first is of the bridegroom being escorted by his dad, the bride's dad, and friends to verify that the...
The Ninth of Av – August 9, 2011
Today is the 9th of Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. On this day, we mourn the destruction of both the first and second temples, 2597 and 1941 years ago, respectively. However, this date on the Hebrew calendar has become associated with so many national...
Glen Beck – July 12, 2011
I have just returned from an amazing experience in the Israeli Knesset. Popular US television and radio commentator, Glen Beck, was a guest of the Knesset and I was invited to participate in the meeting with him. There were a number of Members of Knesset present at...