Proud Jew, American & Zionist, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister & Aunt. David, Robert (Fella z”l, Dasha & Weezy's) Mama. Opinions do not reflect my employer.
I came across this beautiful and thought-provoking letter today: Limping Toward the Light: A Letter From Me in This Moment written by our beloved Mama Rachel Goldberg Polin.
The paragraphs below profoundly impacted my heart & I’d love to hear your thoughts.
“If we always treat the person next to us as if they are The Moshiach, in disguise as a regular person, we will be careful with how we speak and what we do in their presence. And if they choose not to reveal themselves in our lifetime, it will not matter, because we will have behaved respectfully and carefully to that regular person next to us.
This is the most decent thing we can do in this complex and loud world piled with confusion and brokenness. Let us work on the lost art of respectfulness.We seem to have lost this ability as a people.
There is so much internal disagreement and strife in our Jewish world, and it has not served us well.
I think our challenge as we limp forward toward the light, as we rise from the ashes that are still smoldering (and our cherished 101 hostages in Gaza, still languishing there as of this writing) is relearning how to listen.
We have to master how to give space and oxygen, allow the person with whom we disagree to share their ideas, and try to understand them. And then they too should allow me to do that.”
- Rachel Goldberg Polin @BringHershHome #BringThemHomeNow
For all the parents out there dealing with a decision... let me give you another perspective
In 2018 my wife and I went in for our 20? week ultra sound at Beth Israel in Boston... the rep was very quiet the whole time, something seemed off. My wife & I were first time parents... didn't have much context. The doctor pulled us into her office and told us our sons nuchal fold was abnormally large... she went on to say there is a significant increased chance of Down Syndrome and even Turner's syndrome... talked about options to terminate the pregnancy. My wife was inconsolable, rightly so ... even thinking about it now brings back a lot of heavy emotions because of how hard of a day it was... hard...
I did a lot of research on the topic ... my wife & I prayed non stop about it. All we could do. The doctors wanted to do an amniocentesis which has its own host of risks..run more tests...
We came to the conclusion, which was not easy... it didn't matter... no amnio, no more tests.... I felt in my soul the Lord's plan was perfect and if our son was going to have Down Syndrome we would love him and shepherd him through this world the best we could. We get what we get. Anything from the Lord was a BLESSING and I was not going to point my finger at Him
Fast forward to today... our son is going to be 8 in the fall. He is perfect. Just hit a homerun the other day... a much better baseball player than I was at his age. My best friend
I share this deeply personal story for nothing more than to give just ONE parent hope... the Lord's plan is perfect... stay the course
It is certainly a choice, after the disasterous executive order on glyphosate, to have more federal agencies defending the use of this dangerous pesticide only a few months out from midterms. The VERY point of MAHA, and the reason it exploded like wildfire amongst voters, is because we were sick of corruption taking advantage of people’s health and it reached a boiling point. TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars being spent in litigation of cancer settlements means GLYPHOSATE IS NOT SAFE. If we want this presidential administration to be known for MAHA we cannot have people in the USDA and EPA directly subverting the president’s orders to make America healthy again. Get these people out.
BREAKING: I was one of the nine people in Charlie Kirk’s private group chat. What has now come to light is shocking. Andrew Kolvet, Charlie’s right hand man, acting in good faith, sent the screenshots to Joe Kent. As the former head of counterterrorism, Andrew was seeking professional insight before the murderer was caught. Joe pressured him to release the messages publicly to stir suspicion toward Israel. Andrew refused. The very next day, Candace Owens “coincidentally” had obtained and posted the exact same messages, and pushed the false narrative that Charlie was killed by Israel. That dangerous lie has been completely disproven, yet the damage was done.
We now know that Joe Kent, although a war hero, turned failed politician and known leaker, deliberately leaked those texts to Candace. Joe Kent, driven by his anti-Israel agenda, his desire for headlines, and recent influence from his new wife with Russian and anti-Israel ties, chose to betray trust and fuel ugly division. He is also now stating he will testify in defense of Tyler Robinson, Charlie’s murderer. Along with Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, he is utilizing clickbait and conspiracy theories stemming from a national tragedy to promote his own selfish agendas.
Thank you to @Erin_Molan for hosting me, and being a voice of truth and reason among so many who are spreading propaganda.
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"I am drowning, there is no earth left to cling to"
Yosef Weiner, a Holocaust survivor, has passed away this week.
He who lost his grandson, his granddaughter Hadar, and Hadar’s husband Itai on October 7, 2023, has passed away.
Just before the end, he wrote this.
“My name is Yosef Weiner, and I am 97 years old.
I survived the Nazi hellfire; my entire family perished in the inferno. I was severed from my deep roots, and I erected a monument of stones in their memory.
From utter exhaustion, from despair, from drowning, I clung to the earth and took root in Zion.”
"Once again, I am in utter exhaustion, in despair, and drowining. And I have nobody else to cling to."
Photo: The family that Hamas murdered, Itai and Hadar with their two children.
Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing—and companies have to pay them more! How Trump repudiated the Democrats' addiction to cheap labor: https://t.co/FL8HJMuhwk
3 years ago today, two Jewish Israeli brothers, Yaakov and Asher, were brutally murdered by a Palestinian terrorist who ran them over with his car while they were waiting at a bus stop with their dad.
Never forget the evil we are fighting against.
Remember Yaakov and Asher.
Israel is the only Middle Country where the Christian population is growing! Because Israel won the 67 war and rescued East Jerusalem from Jordan, people of ALL FAITHS can now live and worship. Come visit, feel the Bible come alive, walk where Jesus walked and Abraham heard God!
I feel like I'm repeating myself, but you can passionately disagree with a government policy without comparing it to the roundup, imprisonment and extermination of six million Jews.
Stop minimizing the Holocaust with outrageous comparisons.
I’ll never let the world forget how Gazans kidnapped an 8-month-old baby from his home and strangled him to death in a dark underground tunnel in Gaza alongside his mother and brother.
His only “sin”? Being born Jewish.
Kfir Bibas, forever in our hearts.
Just before Shabbos, Leibel Lazaroff traced his memory to the exact place he was shot to say a blessing to thank G-d for the miracle of his life.
Beside him stood Rabbi Ulman, returning to Bondi Beach for the first time since the massacre.
Together, in prayer and reflection, pain was met with strength and darkness with light.
Stop comparing ICE to Nazis. Jews were not lawbreakers. They were stripped of rights, hunted, and murdered because of their identity. Using that comparison is reckless and deeply offensive.
And notice how the Nazi label only gets invoked when it’s politically convenient. It was nowhere to be found when Jews were butchered by Hamas on October 7.
Greta Thunberg? Silent.
Francesca Albanese? Silent.
Mehdi Hasan? Silent.
Cenk Uygur? Silent.
Ana Kasparian? Silent.
The media? Silent.
The UN? Silent.
Ms. Rachel? Silent.
“We are going to take between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil. We're going to sell it in the marketplace at market rates, not at the discounts Venezuela was getting. That money will then be handled in such a way that we will control how it is dispersed in a way that benefits the Venezuelan people, not corruption, not the regime.” — @SecRubio