A Vacation Related Message for Every Day of Your Life
The taxi or car service driver.
The baggage handler.
The airline employee at the check-in counter, and the stewardess on the plane.
The customs person at the airport and the bellhop at the hotel.
The waiter that serves you in the restaurant and the busboy who clears the table.
The lifeguard who secures your fun and the pool boy
Everybody is a somebody.
Growing up is a mixture of feelings for most young people and I was no exception to the rule. During his lifetime, my father and I did not always see things eye to eye and the lessons he tried to teach were toughold school is what they called it back then.
My dad had a lot of things he wanted his first born son to learn about in life. I had other plans and a mind of my own. Looking back, of course, everything he tried to instill in me was 100% right, and I was 100% stubborn and thought he was old fashioned.
What is the most precious commodity? I think the answer is time. I wish I had all the time in the world to spend with my dearest loving mom, Marcelle Sabin AH.
She would ask, when are you coming to visit me? The answer: each Shabbat and every other opportunity that I had.
One of the fundamental precepts of Judaism is the inherent and infinite value of human life. This sentiment is strongly echoed in the famous maxim of the Gemara which states: Whoever saves a life, it is as if he has saved the entire Universe.
As the famous saying goes: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In the next few paragraphs, I would like to discuss what I believe is one of the most important and underutilized preventative and potentially lifesaving tools available to our community: screening colonoscopy!
School choice “voucher system” is a common sense idea that gives every parent the power and freedom to choose where their children are educated.
It is immoral that the quality of schooling that your child receives is based on the value and location of your home. School choice allows parents to choose a school based on its quality and their childs needs, not their address.
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States, causing almost 500,000 deaths annually. It has been the focus of tremendous effort and research in the medical community, and there have been tremendous advancements when it comes to heart disease, from preventing coronary artery disease, to stopping heart attacks in their tracks, and hopefully in the future, to regenerating new heart muscle after a heart attack.
Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, Chairman of the Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee, and the Orthodox Union jointly sponsored a round table discussion looking into drug and alcohol abuse in the Jewish community.
The event took place at, the Young Israel of Midwood. Thirty experts including rabbis, social workers, doctors, psychologists, counselors, program directors and attorneys got together to discuss this important issue.
There are many forms of addictions. Would you think twice about having an alcoholic drink? What are the dangers of drug addiction? What would have to happen to lead an addict to realize they need help?
The SAFE Foundation recently held a special program for 9th and 10th grade students at Magen David Yeshivah Celia Esses High School that helped answer those questions and more. The assembly stressed the dangers of drug and alcohol addiction and the consequences people face when addictions take over their lives.
The Yeshivah of Flatbush held its 2nd Annual Suzanne Blaine AH Dine and Discuss event at the Joel Braverman High School recently. The program inspires children and their parents to read a book together, that the school chose for them to read, talk about it and then join other families (over 200 parents and teenagers attended the event) for discussions over dinner and in small seminars.
Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz recently presented the Yeshivah of Flatbush with a computer for capturing first place in the elementary school division of his Holocaust Memorial Essay, Poetry, Performance and Art Contest.
Touro Colleges Conference on Bullying
Touro Colleges Graduate School of Social Work devoted its recent annual Community Day conference to the topic of bullying. Approximately 100 students, faculty and staff gathered to hear national experts speak about bullying prevention; intervention and treatment and define the scope of the problem and solutions.
Over 500 students, parents, faculty and community members listened intently as four charismatic and astute businessmen from the community presented Strategies for Success in the New Global Economy. Hosted by Hillel Yeshiva, the panel addressed the following questions: Where are the new opportunities in business? How can we benefit from them? What areas are growing the fastest? How do choices our children make today, determine their future success? Does higher education influence our childrens path to success?
Magen David Yeshivah High School recently launched their Sephardic Heritage Program by gathering the entire student body and staff together to view the documentary film produced by our communitys own Mr. Joseph Sitt. Three thousand community members had the opportunity to attend the premiere of the inaugural film last year at Lincoln Center and since then thousands more have seen it at several other venues.
Although there is a wide array of diverse scholarship and literature on the Torah, Rabbi Moshe Shamah has brought to both scholars and laymen an enlightening new perspective with his book, Recalling the Covenant, A Contemporary Commentary on the Five Books of the Torah. He has synthesized the works of both traditional and modern scholars to produce a compelling commentary on the straightforward meaning of this supremely important text.
