May 16, 2003
Hi everyone and Shabbat Shalom!
Our trip was perfect!
We loved every minute......I only wish that we would have had the chance to touch base with Debbie Rozansky and Frank Smith in London and Eva Strausberg in Boston......Next time for sure!
Meanwhile back in San Diego.....Here's the latest news!
Alan Peller is engaged, Murray Peller is married and they are expecting.....and Spencer Peller is also engaged.....
Brian Wolf got married......Steve Gross and Beckye are prego, Ari Galper is getting married.....I think Kay and her husband, Geoff had something to do with it....Beth Katleman had twins.....Marci Thomas had a son.....(see below) Naomi Kroll's daughter is becomming Bat Mitzvah.......I saw Alison Fisher, Jennifer Berton, Shoshana Feher their families, and many others at the Preschool\Day School Art Show last Wednesday....Lee Finkels daughter is in Deborah Chester Geary's third grade class......Deb is part of the Adult B'nai Mitzvah class....Their service is tonight at 6PM......Anne Goldberg's youngest son, Evan, is a finalest in a speech contest,
and there will be more news next time .....
Much Love,
Eemah
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Subject: Fw: College Student Program
On Sunday, July 27th, 4:00pm to 10:00pm, the Israel Committee of Congregation Beth Israel with co-sponsors Hillel of San Diego, United Jewish Federation, AIPAC, Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee are planning a community-wide event for all San Diego college students at Congregation Beth Israel. This program is in support of Israel and will provide information to help promote a pro-Israel and pro-jewish community on college campuses. An Israeli style dinner and party will follow the program. Please encourage your college students, their friends and any students you know to attend this important event. Please call Gail Malkus 858 535-1111 or GMalkus@cbisd.org to make your reservation.
Hi, before I read your e-mail I was going to write to
say I will be in SD for Pesach...guess I won't be able
to see you and show off my beautiful children...How
long will you be in Boston (you know that is where I
live). Let me know if you have time for a quick
coffee.
Love,
Eva Strausberg (is there another?)
Hi Everyone! Here is Max Xavier Quintanilla. He
arrived Sunday April 13 at 9:02am and weighed in at 9
lbs 7 oz. It was a bit of an ordeal, after 22 hrs of
labor and 3 hrs of pushing, I ended up having a
cesarean. Right now I am resting as much as i can.
We are absolutely ecstatic about our new addition and
will be updating the webpage with more pictures in the
near future. will write again soon!
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Love,
Marci, Xavier and Max
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keep positive thoughts, get positive results,
Marci - reunited with bmom, Melinda 7/1/98, reunited with half-brother Scott 1/18/2000, reunited with bdads(deceased) family 2/2000
http://www.geocities.com/pnutshuman/index.html
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Dear friends,
This message was sent to me by a friend. I've been using Ahava hand lotion
for years and giving it as gifts. Now's the time to support the company.
Rachel
Israeli cosmetic company in trouble due to boycott
>
> You all know a lot of people. Maybe you could forward this to friends and
> acquaintances. It's a good cause. Kindly read below.
>The Israeli company, "Ahava" has lost it's entire European market due to
> their boycott of Israel. It's a shame..they are excellent products. If you
> wish to help against the boycott, when you go the drug store, grocery or
> department stores, take a break from your usual store brands (many of
> which are European made products) and purchase Israeli products or Ahava
> directly online at www.ahava.com . (AHAVA products cost the same as the
products we already purchase.)
from Francis Liezerbram Dalton:
Here's Jackie Mason's take on Starbuck's.
Imagine Jackie Mason's voice as you read...
If I said to you, "I have a great idea for a business. I'll open a
whole new type of coffee shop. Instead of charging 60 cents for coffee
I'll charge $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, and $5.50. Not only that, I'll have
no tables, no chairs, no water, no free refills, no waiters, no
busboys, serve it in cardboard cups, and have the customer clean it up
for 20 minutes after they're finished."
Would you say to me, "That's the greatest idea for a business I ever
heard!We can open a chain of these all over the world!" No, you would
put me right into a sanitarium. And it's burnt coffee! It's burnt coffee at
Starbuck's, let's be honest about it. If you get burnt coffee in a coffee
shop, you call a cop. You say, "It's the bottom of the pot. I don't drink
from the bottom of the pot. But when it's burnt at Starbuck's, they say,
"Oh, it's a special roast. It's a special bean from Argentina....."
The bean is in your head!!! I know burnt!!!
You want coffee in a coffee shop, that's 60 cents. But at Starbuck's,
if it's Cafe Latte: $3.50. Cafe Creamier: $4.50. Caffe Suisse: $9.50.
For each French word, another four dollars. Why does a little cream in
coffee make it worth $3.50?
Go into any coffee shop; they'll give you all the cream you want until
you're blue in the face. Forty-million people are walking around in
coffee shops with pitchers of cream: "Here's all the cream you want!"
And it's still 60 cents. You know why? Because it's called "coffee."
You want cinnamon in your coffee? Ask for cinnamon in a coffee shop;
they'll give you all the cinnamon you want. Do they ask you for more
money because it's cinnamon? It's the same price for cinnamon in your
coffee as for coffee without cinnamon - 60 cents, that's it.
But not in Starbucks. Over there, it's Cinnamonnier - $9.50. You want a
refill in a regular coffee shop, they'll give you all the refills
you want until you drop dead. You can come in when you're 27 and keep
drinking coffee until you're 98. And they'll start begging you: "Here,
You want more coffee?"
Do you know that you can't get a refill at Starbucks? A refill is a
dollar fifty. two refills, $4.50. Three refills, $19.50. So, for four
cups of coffee - $35.00.
And there're no chairs in those Starbucks. Instead, they have these
high stools. You ever see these stools? You haven't been on a chair
that high since you were two. Seventy-three year old Jews are climbing
and climbing to get to the top of the chair. And when they get to the
top, they can't even drink the coffee because there's 12 people around
one little table, and everybody's saying, "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse
me, excuse me....." Then they can't get off the chair. Old Jews are
begging Gentiles, "Mister, could you get me off this?"
Do you remember what a cafeteria was? In poor neighborhoods all over
this country, they went to a cafeteria because there were no waiters
and no service. And so poor people could save money on a tip.
Cafeterias didn't have regular tables or chairs either. They gave
coffee to you in a cardboard cup. So because of that you
paid less for the coffee. You got less, so you paid less.
It's all the same at Starbucks - no chairs, no service, a cardboard cup
for your coffee - except in Starbucks, the less you get, the more it
costs. By the time they give you nothing, it's worth four times as much!
Am I exaggerating? Did you ever try to buy a cookie in Starbuck's? Buy
a cookie in a regular coffee shop. You can tear down a building with
that cookie. And the whole cookie is 60 cents. At Starbuck's, you're
going to have to hire a detective to find that cookie, and it's $9.50.
And you can't put butter on it because they want extra.
Do you know that if you buy a bagel, you pay extra for cream cheese in
Starbuck's? Cream cheese, another 60 Cents. A knife to put it on, 32
cents. If it reaches the bagel, 48 cents. That bagel costs you $312.
And they don't give you the butter or the cream cheese. They don't give
it to you. They tell you where it is. "Oh, you want butter? It's over
there. Cream cheese? Over here. Sugar? Sugar is here." Now you become your own
waiter. You walk around with a tray. "I'll take the cookie. Where's the
butter? The butter's here. Where's the cream cheese? The cream cheese is
there." You walked around for an hour and a half selecting items, and
then the guy at the cash register has a glass in front of him that
says "Tips." You're waiting on tables for an hour, and you owe him money?
Then there's a sign that says please clean it up when you're finished.
They don't give you a waiter or a busboy. Now you've become the
janitor. Now you have to start cleaning up the place. Old Jews are
walking around cleaning up Starbuck's. "Oh, he's got dirt too? Wait,
I'll clean this up." They clean up the place for an hour and a half.
Starbuck's can only get away with it because they have French titles
for everything, %$#%^&* . And I say this with the highest respect,
because I don't like to talk about people.
From Lenie Greenspan:
Subject: Fw: [efrat] URGENT -Life-saving request
If you are in Israel, know anyone in Israel, or can send this to people who know people in Israel, please act now. The person to whom you forward this might, in turn, forward it to the person who will save this young man's life. Thank you.
URGENT LIFESAVING REQUEST
30 yr old male is in need of a bone marrow transplant, and is looking for someone with a compatible blood type. Looking for a healthy individual, who does not take any medications with AB+ blood type who is willing to donate blood. Please contact Yifat at: 064 475 477 (in Israel) or go to the blood bank at Tel HaShomer Hospital (in Israel) and say the blood is for ERAN NADIR in the transplant section. Hours are: Sun-Thurs 8:30 am -3:00pm, Wed-11:00am-6:00pm. If you have given blood in the past and wish to verify your blood type, you can do so by calling: 03-530 0400 between 2-3pm. The more this e-mail gets passed around, the better chance you have to save a young man's life!
If you happen to know of someone with this blood type, you can call Yifat at the above mentioned number, or Doron at 068- 652 319.
Thank you!
Jack
Yossi Grossman
rabbig@torchweb.com
www.torchweb.com
May 30, 2003
Shabbat Shalom!
Here is the latest news.....Michael Coleman and wife, Karen are waiting for baby to arrive at any minute....Mark Freed and family are back in San Diego.......I spent last evening with Deb Chester Geary, Barbara Mitchell, Stacey Coleman, Jane Cohen, Marline Gendelman, Dana Jacobs and most important.....Stacey and Mike's baby Emily!
I was thrilled to have Emily sleep on my shoulder.....what a cuddlier!
Earlier that day I got a big hug from Abby(Alison Fisher and Steve's daughter) followed by one from Joey(Brad Fisher's son)....Do I ever love that second generation.....not to mention the first!!!!
Ken Perlman expecting and so is his wife...
Lenie Greenspan and family are moving to Baltimore.....
Carla Levant is getting married tonight!
Tammy Vener is performing the ceremony.....
Love Slipock is getting married this summer.
Erica Seeger going to be a Rabbi....She leaves for a year in Israel this summer as part of the Hebrew Union College program! Which reminds me.....I saw Michael Zeldin at HUC at graduation......and Evan was the Cantor.......also......Swig folks....Did you know that Reuven Firestone is now a professor at HUC?????? He looks the same even without his monkey!
We spent Memorial Day at the Pintos!
Sari and family were there! We had fun trying to remember the lyrics to Fiddler in Hebrew! Can you believe that our performance was in 1969? Some of you weren't even born then! Check out the Fiddler photos on our website.... Madrichim.homestead.com
(password is chai)
Claire Sosna made her dancing debut at the age of 10! Claire just had a bouncing baby boy last week!
Don't forget to click on........
thehungersite.com
rainforestsite.com
Loveyou!
Eemah
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Hi.
Hope you are doing well, and thank you for keeping us updated.
Thought we should let you know a few things going on in Perlman-ville.
Anastasia and I are expecting in October. This will be the first grandchild for both the Perlmans and the Figueroas. The families (all 12 of us) are thrilled. We are having a little girl, as my father said 'a daughter -- something no Perlman son has been able to do for four generations'. When we found out it is going to be a girl I warned Anastasia that the number of times I plan to say 'Go ask your mother' just went up exponentially.
Anastasia has had a great pregnancy so far no morning sickness, perfect test results, exemplary measurements, etc. Hopefully that trend will continue. We've also started getting our home in Huntington Beach ready for baby. We just hope she's a patient baby we want to be able to attend Anastasia's brother's wedding in late September.
On the job front, I am still at Deloitte Consulting where I've been an Organization Design and Change Management consultant for 8 years. Anastasia is at my direct competitor IBM. She was with PriceWaterhouseCoopers when they sold the consulting arm to IBM. She is amazing at her job as a training consultant.
The doctors Perlman (Darcey and Mark) continue to do great. We get to see them quite a bit, and Darcey helped our parents meet their granddaughter with a recent ultrasound in her office in Vista. I'll let Mark send you an update.
Mom & dadmy mom & dadare also doing great. Funny, mom's already started shopping for her granddaughter...imagine that.J It's great to see how wonderful my parents are as I prepare to be one.
Hope to see you soon and say 'hi' to everyone for me.
- Ken
Kenneth S. Perlman
Deloitte Consulting
350 S. Grand Ave.., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90071
(213) 443-2085 - vm
(714) 913-4875 - fax
kperlman@dc.com
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Dear all:
I just wanted to let everyone know that we are changing our email address for the time being. Since we will be ending service here in LA I am getting service with Yahoo so that we will be able to receive email in Baltimore until we are set up properly with our local services there. Our email will continue to work for a few weeks but please switch over now to the new email address so there is less confusion.
The new email address is lenieandrew@yahoo.com
Thanks, please stay in touch Lenie
My husband Andrew was promoted to National Sales Director for his company Constellation Energy. They are a retail electricity supplier. the company is owned by Baltimore Gas and Electric. The corporate headquarters are in Baltimore thus we are moving June 22. My parents are very supportive but very sad. I am very excited by the adventure, sad about leaving my family and California but.... We will be down in San Diego next weekend to say goodbye to my parents etc. if you want to stop by just get in touch with my parents. I will proudly show off my beautiful children. Lenie
Subject: College Student Program
On Sunday, July 27th, 4:00pm to 10:00pm, the Israel Committee of Congregation Beth Israel with co-sponsors Hillel of San Diego, United Jewish Federation, AIPAC, Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee are planning a community-wide event for all San Diego college students at Congregation Beth Israel. This program is in support of Israel and will provide information to help promote a pro-Israel and pro-jewish community on college campuses. An Israeli style dinner and party will follow the program. Please encourage your college students, their friends and any students you know to attend this important event. Please call Gail Malkus 858 535-1111 or GMalkus@cbisd.org to make your reservation.
"Rabbi," the man said, "Please explain the Talmud to me."
"Very well," he said. "First, I will ask you a question. If two
men climb up a chimney and one comes out dirty, and one
comes out clean, which one washes himself?"
"The dirty one," answers the man.
"No. They look at each other and the dirty man thinks he is
clean and the clean man thinks he is dirty, therefore, the
clean man washes himself. Now, another question. If two
men climb up a chimney and one comes out dirty, and one
comes out clean, which one washes himself?"
The man smiles and says, "You just told me, Rabbi. The
man who is clean washes himself because he thinks he
is dirty."
"No," says the Rabbi. "If they each look at themselves, the
clean man knows he doesn't have to wash himself, so the
dirty man washes himself. Now, one more question. If two
men climb up a chimney and one comes out dirty, and one
comes out clean, which one washes himself?"
"I don't know, Rabbi. Depending on your point of view, it
could be either one."
Again the Rabbi says, "No. If two men climb up a chimney,
how could one man remain clean? They both are dirty, and
they both wash themselves."
The confused man said, "Rabbi, you asked me the same
question three times and you gave me three different
answers. Is this some kind of a joke?"
"This is not a joke, my son. This is Talmud."
