The news coming out of Israel, and here in the U.S., this summer leaves all peace-loving people in shock. A 19-year-old, a person in the prime of life, walks into a Jewish home on Friday night with premeditated desire to kill innocent people.
Thank you to the Flo Harris Foundation for continued funding of SAFEHOME’s Jewish Outreach Program for 2017-2018.
‘Safety Net’ for all
Governor Brownback proclaimed Aug. 13-19 as Primary Care Safety Net Clinic Week, a time to recognize primary care clinics providing a “safety net” for all, including the most vulnerable Kansans – the uninsured and underserved.
“Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and
Finding Joy”
by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant (Knopf, 2017)
Many of us like to take some extra time during the summer with a good book (or Kindle) in our hands, and hopefully summertime can be a chance to grow Jewishly as well.
“The Weight of Ink,”
by Rachel Kadish,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 hardcover, June 6, 2017
Riveting narrative, well-honed characters, emotionally rewarding novel, rich detail, suspenseful.
Not too long ago, I stood at the Tiergarten public park in the center of Berlin, Germany. That’s just a short distance away from the former location of a villa where more than 60 Nazi bureaucrats worked in secret to organize the mass murder of millions. But there I was surrounded by 1,100 people celebrating an authentic Jewish wedding.
Theodore Herzl founded modern Zionism for a single purpose: to normalize Jewish existence among the nations and thereby end anti-Semitism.
My esteemed colleague, Rabbi Arthur Nemitoff, wrote an articulate and thoughtful column about his anger toward the Israeli government concerning the issues of religious pluralism in Israel.
