October 15, 2004
Shabbat Shalom!
Alison Fisher had a baby daughter yesterday!
Her name is Rachel Leah!
Kate Haimsohn and Allison Adler are due in a few weeks……
And speaking of off- springs….
This year my students in various classes include children of Robbie Ilko, Laura Ilko, Michael Kritchman, Ken Jacobs, Suzanne Katelman, Lisa Foster, Jeff Silberman and Karen Foster, Louie and Tammy Vener, Rachel Swimmer, Michelle Melden, Shoshana Feher and Daniel Schlafman! Also..sisters of Dana Jacobs and Marty and Steve Gross!
And…I get to visit with lots of other off -springs in preschool and Religious School…kids of Howie Fram, Stacey Coleman, Alison Fisher, Laura Galinson, Harry Rady, Leah Swimmer, Erica Bennett and Brad Fisher!
Mazal Tov to Alison Adler on her hit new show about High School kids….Hmmmmmm do we recognize any familiar kids or events???
Which reminds me…That cute Jewish kid on OC actually went to Beth Israel for a few years..
We had fun at Cara’s for Sukkot! The triplets, Jane’s daughters and Daniel’s kids had a wonderful time..It was nice to see the kidlets have sooooo much fun together!
Keep the news coming!!
And…Please remember to click on the mitzvah sites and to send in your photos to Rick Shumacher ricks @car.org
Much love!
Eemah
hey Eemah! It's Sydel. . . here in SLO (San Luis Obispo). I miss you and everyone else so much! It's very small and non-diverse. I have a new e-mail address for college: sshirley@calpoly.edu, so add that one to your list! Thanks so much. Lots of love and Happy New Year,
Sydel (Shirley- Dancoff)
Mazal Tov to Karen Levy!
Hello to all - if I haven't spoken to you in the last few weeks (or even
if
> I have) you may not have heard that yes - the long sought after and much
> promised promotion has come through!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> As of September 20th - I am no long the Assoc. Import Merchant for the
> Midwest Division of Home Depot. Which is a good thing - since I could
> never really explain to anyone outside the Home Depot exactly what I did
> for a living.
>
> I am now the Merchandising DSM (Divisional Sales Manager) for Resets and
> Rollouts in the Midwest. What does that mean you ask? Well - it's more
> like project management and less like purchasing. I get to work with blue
> prints (those who have driven with me and know I can't read directions
> should keep their comments to themselves), construction, the stores and
> merchandising on how to roll out major resets and changes in our stores at
> Home Depot. My current project is working on the kitchen resets. If
> you've been to a Home Depot store and seen all of the kitchen vignettes -
> you know the project I'm working on. It's very cool - and I really like
> the team I'm working with as well as being able to actually see results of
> projects started and finished.
>
> What this means to you - well, for those who call me at work - I have a
new
> work phone number which is 847-870-5199 ext. 7439. No more direct line (
> sigh) but the extension goes directly to me............
>
> Also - I now have a blackberry - yes, technology has caught up to me and I
> now have one of those calculator looking thingy's that I can retrieve
email
> and make phone calls from....so, hence - the new Chicago cell phone number
> is 847-644-8909. I will be turning off the old Chicago cell phone
shortly.
> I still have the San Diego cell phone - so those who call on that can keep
> that number. The pager also goes away - so if you sent messages to
> archwireless - that can be deleted.
>
> I also have a new assistant - Karen Meyers - yes, I know this is going to
> be confusing when you call work and get - Hello, Karen speaking - but it
> should at least bring on some very interesting stories.
>
> Talk to you soon!
>
> Karen Levy Miller
> Home Depot
> Merchandising DSM/Resets & Rollouts
> 1400 W Dundee Road
> Chicago, IL 60004
> 847-870-5199 ext.7439
Interesting article..
He was born in Bulgaria...
He was born in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia in 1938. After W.W.II, when he was 10, his family immigrated to Jaffa, Israel. He did his military service in Air Force intelligence and paratroopers, and became a journalist and writer of books (including David Ben Gurion's biography), as well as a public servant. - Part of the year he spends in the United States, where he is a professor at Emory University and a very busy speaker.
It was at Emory in 1993 that he read a New York Times article about the wartime rescue of about 7,200 Jews in Denmark. He wrote to the newspaper about the much bigger rescue in Bulgaria, and, only after much checking, did the newspaper publish it. - The flood of positive reaction to this little known tale, and colleagues at the university, persuaded Bar Zohar to write the book. "A True Story Never Told"
A great many Jews know the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi's by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, including me, until yesterday, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were saved. - Not a single Bulgarian Jew was deported to the death camps, due to the heroism of many Bulgarians of every walk of life, up to and including the King and the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
In 1999, Abraham Foxman, the National Director of the Anti -Defamation League flew with a delegation to Sofia to meet the Bulgarian Prime Minister. - He gave the Prime Minister the first Bulgarian language copy of a remarkable book, "Beyond Hitler's Grasp," written in 1998, by Michael Bar Zohar, a
professor at Emory University. (A Bulgarian Jew who had migrated to Israel and then to the USA).
This book documents the rescue effort in detail. The ADL paid for and
shipped 30,000 copies to Bulgaria, so that the population could partake in the joy of learning about this heroic facet of their history.
This story is clearly the last great secret of the Holocaust era. The story
was buried by the Bulgarian Communists, until their downfall in 1991. All records were sealed, since they didn't wish to glorify the King, or the Church,or the non Communist Parliamentarians, who at great personal risk -stood up to the Germans, and the Bulgarian Jewish Community,
45,000 of whom went to Israel after the War, were busy building new lives,and somehow the story remained untold.
Bulgaria is a small country and at the outset of the War they had 8 million people. They aligned themselves with the Nazis in hopes of recapturing Macedonia from Yugoslavia and Thrace from Greece. Both provinces were stripped from them, after W.W.I.
In late 1942 the Jews of Selonica were shipped north through Bulgaria, on the way to the death camps, in sealed box cars. The news of this inhumanity was a hot topic of conversation. Then, at the beginning of
1943, the pro -Nazi Bulgarian government was informed that all 50,000
Bulgarian Jews would be deported in March. The Jews had been made to wear yellow stars and were highly visible. As the date for the deportation got closer, the agitation got greater.
Forty three ruling party members of Parliament walked out in protest.
Newspapers denounced what was about to happen. In addition, the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Kirili, threatened to lie down on the railroad tracks.
Finally, King Boris III forbid the deportation. Since Bulgaria was an ally
of Germany, and the Germans were stretched militarily, they had to wrestle with the problem of how much pressure they could afford to apply. They decided to pass.Several points are noteworthy. The Bulgaria n Jews were relatively unreligious and did not stand apart from the local populace by virtue of garb,or rites. They were relatively poor by comparison to Jewish people in other countries, and they lived in integrated neighborhoods.
Additionally, Bulgaria had many minorities, Armenians, Turks, Greeks, and Gypsies, in addition to Jews. - There was no concept of racism in that culture. The bottom line here is that Bulgarians saw Bulgarian Jews as Bulgarians, and not as Jews. And, being a small country, like Denmark, where there was a closeness of community, that is often missing in larger countries.
So, here was a bright spot that we can point to as an example of what should have been. The most famous of those saved was a young graduate of the Bulgarian Military Academy. When he arrived in Israel, he changed his name to - Moshe Dayan.
Fwd: Forgetful People (from Cantor Merel!)
All You and there are a lot of us.
This only applies to cars that can be unlocked by that remote button on your key ring. Should you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are home, and you don't have "OnStar," here's your answer to the problem!
If some one has access to the spare remote at your home, call them on your cell phone (or borrow one from someone if the cell phone is locked in The car too!)
Hold your (or anyone's) cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the phone.
Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock The doors (or the trunk, or have the "horn" signal go off, or whatever!)
(Editor's Note * It works fine! We! tried it out and it un! locked our car over a cell phone!)
