May 15, 2008
May 13, 2008
Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler passed away May 12,08 in Warsaw at the age of 98.
The death was confirmed by Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization that supports rescuers of Holocaust victims.
Mrs. Sendler was head of the children’s bureau of Zegota, an underground organization set up to save Jews after the Nazis invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.
In 1965, Mrs. Sendler became one of the first of the righteous gentiles honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Poland’s Communist leaders did not allow her to travel to Israel; she was presented the award in 1983.
In a letter last year to the Polish Senate after her country finally honored her efforts, Mrs. Sendler wrote, “Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.”
Mrs. Sendler once told Ms. Stahl that she wanted to write a book about the bravery of Jewish mothers.
(from an article of The New York Times, by Dennis Hevesi, May,13, 2008)
More about her story here:
http://islandsofpeace.blogspot.com/2008/03/righteous-of-world.html
The death was confirmed by Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization that supports rescuers of Holocaust victims.
Mrs. Sendler was head of the children’s bureau of Zegota, an underground organization set up to save Jews after the Nazis invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.
In 1965, Mrs. Sendler became one of the first of the righteous gentiles honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Poland’s Communist leaders did not allow her to travel to Israel; she was presented the award in 1983.
In a letter last year to the Polish Senate after her country finally honored her efforts, Mrs. Sendler wrote, “Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.”
Mrs. Sendler once told Ms. Stahl that she wanted to write a book about the bravery of Jewish mothers.
(from an article of The New York Times, by Dennis Hevesi, May,13, 2008)
More about her story here:
http://islandsofpeace.blogspot.com/2008/03/righteous-of-world.html
April 18, 2008
April 13, 2008
April 6, 2008
Rosh Chodesh Nissan. Preparing for Pesach.
HOW TO GET READY ?
many resources can be found here:
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HOW TO MAKE IT WITH MUSIC AND SMILE
here:
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(courtesy of http://www.jr.co.il/)
April 2, 2008
Animated Map of Middle East Region.
5,000 Years of History - in 90 Seconds.
This is an amazing, constantly changing map of the Middle East,
illustrating how various "empires" have risen and fallen in the past
5,000 years - in just 90 seconds...
March 30, 2008
March 26, 2008
Righteous Among the Nations.
IRENA SENDLER
2003 Winner of
the Jan Karski Award
of Valor and Courage
"I only did what was normal. I could have done more," she says.
"This regret will follow me to my death..."
Her amazing story is here:
“Sendler was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007,
but lost out to Al Gore”
"In a place where there are no men,
strive to be a man."
Pirkey Avos (Ethics of The Fathers)
March 21, 2008
March 20, 2008
March 12, 2008
March 9, 2008
8 Boys, 8 Names, 8 Lives...
Dedicated to the eight bochurim
of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Yerushalayim.
For the split second
It took to take their lives
Let “life as usual stop”.
Let tongues uttering
Their normal transactions cease.
Let no foot hurry its accustomed
Pleasure of the streets.
Let every occupied moving thing
Arrest its breath of life.
Let halt the cherished dove its flight.
And when life resumes
Let inconsolable voices
Join the Watchmen on the Walls
Who never let Him rest – day or night –
Until He hastens
The time of almond blossoms
Untainted with blood.
Written by student of Or Chaya,
Lubavitch Women’s Seminary,Yerushalayim.
of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Yerushalayim.
For the split second
It took to take their lives
Let “life as usual stop”.
Let tongues uttering
Their normal transactions cease.
Let no foot hurry its accustomed
Pleasure of the streets.
Let every occupied moving thing
Arrest its breath of life.
Let halt the cherished dove its flight.
And when life resumes
Let inconsolable voices
Join the Watchmen on the Walls
Who never let Him rest – day or night –
Until He hastens
The time of almond blossoms
Untainted with blood.
Written by student of Or Chaya,
Lubavitch Women’s Seminary,Yerushalayim.
March 5, 2008
February 26, 2008
February 19, 2008
February 5, 2008
January 22, 2008
January 8, 2008
December 23, 2007
December 18, 2007
December 13, 2007
December 12, 2007
The Eighth Day, Chanukah Conclusion.
B"H
The Path of Light
When He made the world, He made two ways to repair each thing:
With harshness or with compassion.
With a slap or with a caress.
With darkness or with light.
And He looked at the light and saw that it was good.
Darkness and harsh words may be necessary. But He never called them good...
Even if you could correct another person with harsh words the One Above receives no pleasure from it. When He sees his creatures heal one another with caring and with kindness, that is when He shines His smile upon us.
A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Tevet 3, 5768
Chabad.org
December 11, 2007
The Eighth Night of Chanukah!!!!!!!!!
B"HThe Last War
Some people are waiting for a final, apocalyptic war.
But the final war is not fought on battlefields, nor at sea, nor in the skies above.
Neither is it a war between leaders or nations.
The final war is fought in the heart of each human being, with the armies of his or her deeds in this world.
The final war is the battle of Chanukah and the miracle of light.
A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Tevet 2, 5768
Chabad.org
December 10, 2007
The Seventh Night of Chanukah.!!!!!!!!
B"HNormal Miracles
These things people call amazing coincidences, synchronicity, small miracles -- this is the way the world is supposed to work.
It is only that the world is in slumber, like a sleeping person who does not see, does not hear, does not speak -- so that nothing distinguishes his head from his feet, his heart from his brain. So too, the world lies deep in a dream where anything is possible, but nothing seems to have a goal. Where only chaos reigns.
It takes only one person to open his eyes, his ears, his mind and his heart and the objects of this world fall into place and work together as a single whole. Synchronized. As they were meant to be.
A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Tevet 1, 5768
Chabad.org
December 9, 2007
The Sixth Night of Chanukah..!!!!!!!
B"HBe A Miracle
Lead a supernatural life and G-d will provide the miracles.
A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
Kislev 29, 5768
Chabad.org
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