2 Sides of the Coin
It’s just past 8:00 PM local time and sirens just wailed to signal the start of Memorial Day, honoring Israel’s 22,000+ fallen soldiers and victims of terror. Â Some of the latter were close friends…
Read moreYom Hazikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror
Links: Friends of the IDF Jewish War Veterans About Yom Hazikaron
Read moreWhere’s the Love In Giving? The Dalai Lama Wants to Know.
I was flipping through the University of Oregon’s Spring issue of Cascade magazine today and I found an article that I want to share with our readers. The article by Marc Dadigan is called…
Read moreBetter Than Charity
Jewish tradition teaches that there is something even better than charity… Nearly a thousand years ago, the sage Maimonides wrote:”A loan is better than charity, for it enables one to help himself.” And Jewish…
Read moreThe Passover Blog
Is Coca Cola Kosher? Is it Kosher for Passover? The answer to both questions is yes, thanks to the late Rabbi Tobias Geffen. Born in Kovno Lithuania, he ended up in Atlanta by way…
Read moreKeeping Your Promises
When you make a promise to yourself or to others do you stick to your word? Keeping promises is always a good idea, but what if your promise had over a $700,000,000.00 price tag…
Read moreChanging the World One Person at a Time
Have you ever thought that as much as you try, you can’t even begin to scratch the surface when it comes to making the world a better place? I’m sure many people feel the…
Read morePurim Fun In Beersheva
It’s Purim 5770 today in Beersheva as it is in most all of Israel and the Diaspora. Â In honor of the topsy-turvy nature of the holiday: remembering a serious crisis in Jewish history while…
Read moreSeth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain
We love Seth Godin. This video is about the push and pull involved in starting something important and finishing it. The bit on the lizard brain starts at the 10:00 minute mark.
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