November 5, 2004
Hi and Shabbat Shalom!
October sure was a busy month…..
New Babies babies babies!
Alison Fisher….baby Rachel Leah
Allison Adler…….baby Levi Hank
Kate Haimsohn…baby Ethan
Laura Priesman baby girl
Sooooooooooo exciting!
Sophie Vener(Louie and Tammy’s youngest) is becoming a Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat!
Time sure flies by…..and speaking of Camp Beth Israel babies……..Jessica Makoff is getting married in April!
Karen Foster and Jeff Silberman’s son, Harry, will become a Bar Mitzvah later this month…We share the same birthday! Harry is in this year’s Madrichim class…He wants to be a song leader just like his mom!
I thought that some of you may be interested in a wonderful program from Hebrew Union College called DELET. Check out the website
www.delet.org It is an opportunity for a career in Jewish Day Schools! Generous stipends are available….
Hope all is well with all of you!
Keep those photos coming to Rick Shumacher ricks@car.org
And be sure to click on our Mitzvah sites!
Mucho Love,
Eemah
The following is a copy of CBI President Jeff Silberman’s remarks at the High Holy Day service…
Levi Hank Gilbert-Adler
7 lbs 6 oz.
Born Oct 27th, three weeks early --
the night the Red Sox won.
The night of the lunar eclipse.
He is 23 inches long, the same, according to my ob/gyn as Shaq's son. .
He is amazing. We are so thrilled and completely blessed.
Dear Eemah,
Thanks. All is well. As I ran a staff meeting this evening for 18 teachers, I thought of you. My theme of discussion was, ideas for teaching with a positive attitude. Catching kids doing good things and letting them know about. You are etched in our (i.e. the evergrowing email list of your talmidim and talmidot) memories forever.
Y.R. Kobernick
November 12, 2004
Shabbat Shalom!
I’m off to camp!
I’ll be thinking of you……
Love,
Eemah
Thanks for all the great news! Here is some more for you, Jordan Leeds & I got engaged on Saturday night! We are hoping for a Summer 2005 wedding
Allison Small
(MAZAL TOV! We’ll have to add them to our Temple Couples list!!)
This is from Allison Adler
“Things I never learned in Hebrew School:”
1. The High Holidays have absolutely nothing to do with marijuana.
2. Where there's smoke, there may be smoked salmon.
3. No meal is complete without leftovers.
4. Tsuris is a Yiddish word that means your child is marrying someone who isn't Jewish.
5. According to Jewish dietary law, pork and shellfish may be eaten only
in Chinese restaurants.
6. A schmata is a dress that your husband's ex is wearing.
7. You need 10 men for a minyan, but only four in polyester pants and
white shoes for pinochle.
8. One mitzvah can change the world; two will just make you tired.
9. It's not who you know, it's who you know had a nose job.
10. After the destruction of the Second temple, God created Loehmann's.
11. If your name were Lipschitz, you'd change it too.
12. Anything worth saying is worth repeating a thousand times.
13. Never take a front row seat at a bris.
14. Next year in Jerusalem. The year after that, how about a nice cruise?
15. Never leave a restaurant empty handed.
16. Spring ahead, fall back, winter in Boca Raton.
17. WASPs leave and never say good-bye; Jews say good-bye and never leave.
18. Always whisper the names of diseases.
19. If it tastes good, it's probably not kosher.
20. The important Jewish holidays are the ones on which
alternate-side-of-the-street parking is suspended.
21. Without Jewish mothers, who would need therapy?
22. Before you read the menu, read the prices. If you have to ask the
price, you can't afford it. But if you can afford it, make sure to tell
everybody what you paid.
23. The only thing more important than a good education is a good parking spot at the mall.
24. Laugh now, but one day you'll be driving a Lexus and eating dinner at four in the afternoon in Florida.
This is from Barry and Joel Gendelman’s dad, Max:
Once again, the Washington Post published its yearly contest in which
readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. And
the winners are . . .
1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly
answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you
are
run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a
proctologist immediately before he examines you.
13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish
expressions.
14. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die your Soul goes
up on the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts
And this is from Amy and Kate Haimsohn’s step-dad, Ron:
[Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel delivered at the Duke University Counter-Terrorism Speak-Out October 14, 2004.]
I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in
an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic
world.
I was raised in Lebanon, where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews or drive them into the sea.
When the Muslims and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without electricity, eating grass to live and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get water.
It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon. My mother was wounded by a Muslim's shell and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I saw.
There were hundreds of people wounded - Muslims, Palestinians, Christian Lebanese and Israeli soldiers - lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation; they saw people in need and they helped.
For the first time in my life, I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of
the Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments.
I spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government about the Jews and Israel that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown to the ground as shouts of joy of "Allahu Akbar!" - God is great! - would echo
through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded; with one [woman] in particular - Rina. Her only child was wounded in his eyes.
One day, I was visiting with her and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded [her son's] bed, playing a song about Jerusalem, Rina and I
started crying. I felt out of place and started walking out of the room; and this mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me.
She holds me, crying, and says, "It is not your fault." We just stood there crying, holding each other's hands.
What a contrast between her - a mother looking at her deformed 19-year-old only child, and still able to love me, the enemy - and between a Muslim
mother who sends her son to blow himself to smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
The difference between Israel and the Arabic world is a difference in values and character. It's barbarism versus civilization. It's democracy versus dictatorship. It's goodness versus evil.
Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional
murder of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle". However, once such behavior is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized
everywhere in the world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and nails for the
purpose of killing children in the name of god.
Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York , from Moscow to Madrid , from
Bali to Beslan.
They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation" Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the
Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent. On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel's independence,
a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed
and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" or "occupation", but by the very thought of a
Jewish state.
So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and
defeated Communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up and support and defend the state of Israel, which is the frontline of the war against terrorism.
Thank you.
Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel grew up in South Lebanon as the only child of a retired Christian governing administrator of the region and a successful businessman. She has worked as a journalist in Jerusalem and a news anchor for World News, an Arabic broadcast of Middle East Television. After relocating to the United States, Ms. Gabriel started a television production and advertising company. Following the September 11th attacks, Ms. Gabriel founded American Congress for Truth, a non-profit organization dedicated to
inform, inspire and motivate Americans to take action against terrorism and the threat radical Islamic
