SELL BY DATES

  Once upon a time shopping was a whole lot easier than it is today. You went to the shelves to pick up what you needed or wanted, (not necessarily the same), put it in your wagon and paid for it. Today, standing by any chosen item, one can begin to think that there is either a requirement or a custom to do this: pick up item, preferably from the back of the lot, gaze at sides, bottom and top, replace and redo with another of the item, shake head and pick up one's choice. What is this custom?

It is a sell by date comparison. It is a shopper's awareness that the fresher ones will be put in the back, hoping that people will simply come by and pick up one closest. I suppose it works often enough for the practice to be continued but those of us of a certain age can easily recall the time when sell by dates were non-existent and we had one less criterion over which we obsessed. Yet we survived. Today one can find these dates on practically everything from soup to nuts, edible and non-edible, and most mind boggling, on items which have no deterioration over time.  Yet there are those dates, front and center. The sad thing is how we buy into that and pursue that which need not be pursued. In so doing we fritter away time and effort where they are wasted rather than where there is desperate need of such input. And then we wonder why a project is late and/or of secondary quality. 

 Without a need to be cruel, sell by date usage and functioning can be applied to human beings if done properly. We wonder why, when there are so many ways in which we can differentiate the ability of one to carry out one's responsibilities without demeaning the one being evaluated.  Using such a system would allow for continued productive contributions from most, as misplacement due to physical demands or age restrictions or experience necessity would be halted. Each person would feel and work better when talents and abilities are   suitably matched. A person would not feel discarded, but rather valued and the atmosphere of the workplace and the morale of workers within would much improve and a happy comfortable workplace is conducive to more productivity and willingness to work in tandem, rather than in competition.

Some positions require knowledge, ability and desire to use tht knowledge to contribute to others, to help people, to make techniques easier to use, or to carry out and carry on. To make use of the experience, the knowledge, the insights of one's life's work, highlighting top of the line contributive value rather than emphasizing one weakened. Age, physical stamina, experience, ability and willingness to give over the benefits of one's experiences to one more capable at this moment to fulfill all necessities. 

Use rather than, discard. Value rather than demean. Thrifty rather than wasteful. Know and acknowledge sell by dates but also the longevity and flexibility of others. 

Now sit back and review your life, your experience in the workplace and in various organizations. Who, when and where could have benefited from the evaluation and the application of sell by the dates of ability to fulfill a position to the best of one's capability, to fit the needs of the entity and to allow for flexibility and transfer of knowledge to others without discarding all the positive that remains, all the too valuable to lose and so difficult to rebuild.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

  All with much to contribute. With much to build upon, all with the provision of hope.

Maybe one day to be appreciated.

                

WHO'D A THUNK?

Who'd a thunk that today, in 2025, after years of growing awareness that there is just something, many somethings wrong, with that guy in the White House, that we can still, so easily, disconnect with reality. That we can still manage to unlink our connection to independent thought and evidence and instead adhere to the idea of controlled and repressed thinking. 

From a democratic nation to one-man authoritarian rule. That we would actually again submit to “rule" of this nation by one who has not been elected, nore was ever in position to be so chosen. It is when the president becomes visibly and/or mentally incapable of leading this nation and those duties and responsibilities are assumed by the partner. In American history it is the female hostess or First Lady of the land, who does this. Woodrow Wilson. Ronald Reagan. Joe Biden? Melania, (not even a citizen by birthright(!) and I believe there were one or two more in the same situation. In some cases, it was a well-known but denied and ignored situation while in others it was accepted as such, particularly in those administrations where the Cabinet members took over the rule and made the decisions. Not a great situation, no matter where one looks. 

We are at present right in the midst of such a problematic administration. While the eyes of the nation have been opening slowly, finally seeing what we, those of us who have seen the truth for ever so long, that we now have as our practically speaking president, a foreign-born woman whose loyalty to this nation is untested. So well indeed have we accepted her that she was emboldened enough to answer her poor befuddled husband's question. "What did she say? Even as she clued him in as to that answer, she cannot do that for what follows, for the inanities, the absurdities, the rambling round the merry go round responses that emit from his beleaguered severely misfunctioning brain. 

His henchman in the cabinet and the leadership of the Republican Party and in the houses of Congress have glommed onto this opportunity. All the while they pass off these extremely dangerous moronic proposals of policy and Constitution challenging Executive Orders, as his. But they do not always cone from his befuddled and overtaxed mind but actually from theirs, and not a great difference between them. In public, they continue their behavior as Craven Toads and take major hits to their dignity but actually they may be the ones controlling of the mighty powers that remain to us. That, my friends, that is an extremely frightening proposition, a scenario of reality which I am too afraid is actually true, and well along its way on this one-way road to Perdition. 

If we do not all wake up and smell the coffee, see the truth, read between the lines, evaluate current reality and understand what is happening and what it portends for the future, well, perhaps we need, all of us, to get on some new Mayflower and find some new land and rebuild from scratch. If you continue to deny the truth, I suggest you do this before you jump ships.  Watch as many of his pathetic conferences or meetings with the dignitaries of other states and nations. 

Clock in on how they behave towards him. Are they spaced out or paying attention? Are their eyes elsewhere other than on his face, in absolute wonderment that this is the man with whom they are negotiating, this remnant of a once upon a time thinking human being. Analyze the faces of his members of the houses of Congress and of his cabinet and other appointees who suck up to him in public, smile and chuckle on command but speak to him in baby's tone and tempo Anyone who has been a parent or a coworker or a subordinate know this is how one talks to a child or to one incapable of understanding words of more than one syllable, or the context and consequences of it.

This is our current situation. It is not the first time that this has occurred and probably will not be the last. However, it is the first time that this nation has been in such as this one. One where all the evil energies converge and create a damaging synergy which we had better shed quickly or forever we will be forced to hold our piece. 

Yes, before you take up finger and type and say I am forgetting his current support of Israel, no, I am not. This is just about his only policy which I am hoping and praying and pleading and doing whatever I can to see that he follows and acts, not just talks.

 However, I am not only a supporter, a citizen, of America or Israel, but I'm also a citizen of the world, and as goes the world, so do we. Somehow, sometime, somewhere, and very soon, we must come to some kind of accommodation and understanding. At present, we are ceding our influence and our waning power to command and possible influence. Our grip on that wheel of the ship of state is becoming less controllable even as the wild shoals and sandbars grow in number and size. We have lost our maps to the safe channels through troublesome waters, and it is proving to be of great difficulty, if not impossible, to resurrect.

Once upon a time all those yesterdays ago, we had respect and dignity. As much as we always criticized our leaders, we always had faith in their loyalty to this nation. We had a trust in this leader that is missing today, glaringly so. Be the failure on purpose or by accident, it matters not.  He needs to be removed from positions where he might cause harm irreparable and then what? No. The answer is not to elect such a person, and if that grievous error is made, then to correct it as soon as possible and rectify any damage caused in the interim.

We have legal means enough to remove this man and any other such man or women who follow in his paths. Disenchant them of any mistaken visions they have of such being the truth. Do what is needed with care and wisdom and with appropriate speed. Any dilly dallying along the way will only lead to more troubles and woes, all become enmeshed together and even Alexander the Great will not be able to slice his sword through that Gordian Knot.    

Prevention is worth an ounce of care. The problem is that we have so many ounces of care weighing upon us that we must deal with consequences before we can even begin to get at those prevention rules. The sooner, the better.

It is a great time to start.

We have lost the time of  yesterday.

We are greatly challenged today.

But the true worry is for the tomorrows to come.

THERE COMES TIME

 The title statement is one applying to most things in life Fashion trends. Book favorites. Acceptable behavior or nonacceptable. All things reach that ending, sometimes naturally, sometimes not. At times it is welcome while at other times it is most unwelcome, but we all must learn to live with those endings. Many these endings actually give birth, an impetus to new ideas, spark new questions or approaches resulting in new invention or improvements in ones we have. Research into many areas is encouraged and theories on everything are studied and expanded upon. That is science That is what our best labs in universities and research hospitals and companies should be all about Unfortunately, that is not so.

Today we have ignoramuses. Today we have people who are afraid of moving forward for they are not even at the place we are at today, but have fallen way, way behind These are the ignorant ones of anti vaxxer belief. These are the one who refuse to admit that the United States needs fresh blood, fresh brains, fresh thinking, fresh ideas. That is called immigrants Those immigrants are also called upon, and most necessary, to work in the fields of construction and tourism, hospitality and agriculture, to educate their children and see them contribute to society.

 However, once again, we are shooting ourselves in our feet by chasing them out. Stop. No, not chasing, but throwing and first imprisoning in most inhumane conditions. Families are ripped apart. A full planeload of only children is to be dumped in some strange country. Why does this country agree to this? Because Trump has threatened them with dire consequences if they refuse oblige him in this policy.   

 These types of behavior are of sheer ignorance and approaches points and charges of illegality and brutality. That's the question so, why the hell are we doing this? I have spoken out about this till my face turns blue in the face and I get the same answers and mind you - these are not my answers. These are people who are criminals or drug ridden, infested with the worst germs ever. Are after our money, our homes, our children. I want to show this out and down money our homes. This is most unfortunately, quite reminiscent, quite mirroring of the same attitudes that the Nazis held out and urged people to adopt and act upon. Frankly, I see no air visible between them, other than the fact that they have not yet approached that level and built openly acknowledged concentration camps with methodology of slaughter and murder and extermination. Give it time.

How have we forgotten the origin and the development of this nation? How have we forgotten our civics courses where we discussed the ethos of our nation and its proper course of development, including errors that it made? How have we forgotten the times when it opened its doors and gates to those in desperate need and how many times have we forgotten and beaten mea culpa   when we shut those gates in their faces?     

 How have we forgotten that we are immigrants? All of us, and if not this generation than the one before, the one before that. How have forgotten that? I ask all of you out there which generation in your family came as immigrants. And yes, I know you're going to tell me they worked hard. But most do and want the same - opportunity to make their dreams come true. Why do we think it our obligation, our right to deny this dream? Criminal - then yes, deport, but if not, make them welcome and invite them to partake in this wonderful American dream.   

All this hatred, all this animosity all this determination to hold all in the world deeply and closely to our bodies, refusing to share its bounties, Might consequently actually be harming ourselves as we shut down the doorway to the new which might actually benefit us. If someone can actually explain this to me, truthful data, I would do my best to believe, but for the life of me there is no truth here. There is only hate There is only animosity. There is only contempt. And there is a total forgetfulness in the minds of all, that pursuit and persecution eventually devolve upon everyone for Each group is fed upon in its turn and when one group is done this viral slithering hate moves to the next available group. No exemptions, no pity, no escape.  When one group is done, it merely advances its slithery slimy onto the next available meal. Yum, yum!

All the yesterdays of mankind. All of the todays built upon those yesterdays, with optimism for them and for the tomorrows - we have got to choose and quickly. The time is of finite duration.

SO. IS HE? IF SO, WHAT ELSE IS NEW? HO HUM...ZZZZZZZ

  Really? Truly? Is that the case? If so, it's all old news, for anyone with the modicum of honesty and intelligent thoughts, willing to believe what he knows is true, rather than deny it for convenience's sake, knew way back in the run for 2016, even before that, the man was nuts! Nuts in his extreme behavior, in his wording and ideas and certainly damage to intelligence blaring from his weird writing. Not to forget his imbecilic smirks and perpetual prissy mouth moue. 

All one had to do was take all of this together, one nice, neat weighed together package and the clear picture was seen. All of what he said. All of the lies he sent forth and all the contradictions he employed in order to make his way into the Oval Office. His weird posture and hair habits. His clumsy walk and body build. The very strange and illiterate writing.  The constant occasions when either reading a pre-written speech, or his wild pony rides off the path laid down before him, when he segues into long passages of totally disconnected, discombobulated rantings and ravings. 

To tell the truth it was and actually is, even more so as we have seen him double down on his insanity, in his second term in office. It was frightening enough to see a candidate in the throes of growing dementia; How much more frightening when that same weirdo is the actual elected one in the Oval Office? When that lacking person stands before the nation he supposedly leads and the nations of the Western world where he is also presumed to be a leader, the world stands aghast and realizes its survival is at a duel at noon level. Oy!! It is enough to induce insanity, great confusion even within an eminently sane and sensible person, let alone to exacerbate the already cooking and boiling insanity and present insanity within that degenerating mind.

 Even the most powerful truth avoiding mind must see the actuality, the sad reality. The danger ever growing until one day, most probably soon, the possessor of said muddied mind does something unable to be reversed or even ameliorated in some degree. The physical outward symptoms are clear as is the insane obsession with his hair, changing hairstyles, dying it, as if it obscures the truth of his dangerous deficiencies of his age.  Shuffling feet, awkward walk, clearly off balance. Bloated body. Swollen hands and feet. Body held at odd angle, severe bending over to the side to hear the voice addressed to him at conferences. Now we have his very raspy, hoarse voice and he continues to veer off topic, and lose his temper when displeased.

He needs to be constantly reinforced as to popularity and adoration by the people. - even as the polls prove that ever so wrong. Nor can he keep track of what he says, of his activities and scolds all those he deems responsible when caught in his own contradictions, and please, not to forget his constant audience who stand behind him and smile and grin on demand or who actually drop their work, as much as it is, to stand before him for an entire afternoon, their job to be front and center to praise him and smile for him. To remind him how great he is.  Ugh! All creeps and dangerous incompetents to the worst degree possible. 

Moreover, he is deeper into dementia than Biden eve was and at least there were some intelligent people in that group. Here all we have are undesirable, indigestible brownnosers possessed of errant and weird theories such as RFK Junior spouts forth. Or economists who have no clue as to what this field is and how to work it, how to make it safe for the nation. Et alia for all the more that can be said here.   

Most frightening is the way that this nation has lost its ways, its moral basis, forgotten its foundations, the principles which gave rise to the first true democracy of the world. We have lost our pride. And we have lost the respect from the other nations of the world as we do not remain true to who and what we are supposed to be. We have shed the nobility of our purpose on this earth. There is a deep loss of quality and caliber of so-called public servants as they aim to attain and amass power, who serve only themselves and their master, currently Trump. 

He is the one who wishes to turn this nation from democracy to authoritarian government and is well on the way to achieving that goal. He despises all who oppose him. He plots revenge and worse upon them. At present, he is held back only through a judiciary which is standing on its rights and its powers given to them by the Constitution, but the question remains, how long can they withstand all that he throws against them as he continues to load the decks with puppets who do his bidding. 

Under his rule, there is blatant disregard for laws. There is corruption within the government. There is imposition of federal forces upon cities and state. There are many outrageous actions taking place as he has written so many edicts, Executive Orders, an insane number of them, demands of a dictator wannabe, all of which contain nothing that bodes good for the populace. He has donned a deep enveloping cloak of inhumanity, of disrespect and disregard of the rights of people and how they should be treated. He deliberately has forgotten the dream of America and subverted it to a nightmare grown beyond all possible acceptability.  Into a deterioration clearly ugly, filthy in its activations and declarations and motivations.

In fact, there is only one area in which he has retained some connection to sanity and to righteousness of cause. He supports Israel, or claims he does, even as he takes credit upon himself for things that happen, not only by his power alone. But the question remains; the man is mercurial and his swapping of opinions and changing of minds is too often there and in play. How long till his already increasing impatience goes beyond his accepting of it and he turns? I sincerely hope not, but his trustworthiness is more apparent in its absence than in its presence. I hope that he continues on this at least one path of correct activity and opinion and support of a constantly embattled nation whose people are targets of hate throughout the millennia of the world.  I wish I were more confident that he is even capable of doing so, so deep in the throes of a growing dementia that he is.

Yesterday we had frightening times.

Today they persist in remaining.

As for tomorrow, we can only hope and pray and watch and act very carefully. 

And trust in the Lord, our G-d and His promise to us - of a homeland of our own.

Forever. 

AND THE MISBEAT GOES ON AND ON

  When I woke up this morning, I was not clear as to my exact location. It did not look like Florida nor like the plane we have been traveling in since it felt time forever and more. Nor was it one of my children's homes and so where in the name of Dickens are we? Prying my eyes open a bit more I confirm the place, giving me great happiness as well as a great big moan for it equaled up to one place both timely and welcome as well as back ache warning. All the unpacking!! 

Just then I heard confirmation as the sweet sounds of the shofar blown each and every morning in the month of Elul. Heart and soul hear the call to prayer, to atone for violations of the past year, to repent and ask for mercy and forgiveness from   Hashem and all whom we have offended during that time. How blessed it is to hear that sound every morning as those notes come wafting through my window. In the land given unto the people of Abraham, to my people all those millennia ago.    Music in my ears along with the sounds of children playing outside and the banging of hammers as indeed, 'shavu banim ligvulam' - your children have returned to their land. In which we lived, which we visited, the same land for which we prayed, the nation which provided haven for Jewish refugees, those persecuted, and those who returned in full free choice, for each one knows the call of the heart, the State of Israel. The land we have been called upon year after year to defend, for survival and for rescue of those held captive in a death in life in the caves and cells of the enemy.

We have also been called to defend ourselves politically in an extremely hostile political world. Organizations such as the United Nations and all of its subordinate branches also incorporate within their very souls an antagonism, even hatred of Israel and of Jews in general. It has supported physically, emotionally, financially and militarily those who fought against Israel, those who hate Israel, those whose final goal in life is to destroy that nation, it's people within and the related population in all the nations of the globe.

There was no shame among them as at one and the same time they claim those borders in totality, with   Jewish citizens able to remain - under their Sharia rules - and at other times they admit their true desire to be Judenrein, not a Jew to be had within those borders. Not within Israel as it was nor even among the living in the world at large, admitted by a leader of this cause, who stated clearly that "our war is not against Israelis but against all Jews."

Worst of all is when they are aided and abetted by the Anti-Semitic leaders of both the West and the East who've decided to join in the chorus of hate and shed their flimsy outer coating hiding their anti -semitic beliefs - France, England, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, country after country barely one hesitating to join that ugly choir of hate, that modern, open revelation as alive and quite well,  that this ancient and evil hatred has never been truly forsworn nor defeated, not desired to be so. 

Israel has been held to an unlivable standard of behavior, impossible to achieve, yet demanded so of Israel. They are to relinquish any formation, any format of self-defense as any other nation would have it. Lives taken by the soldiers of Israel is verboten, as Israel must fight a war where none of their enemies fall - so demanded and so criticized when naturally it does not take place. It cannot.

 The enemies themselves are violating all the rules of warfare, even as they receive the sympathy of the world once it is clear that Israel has overcome their forces, on the way to yet another victory in another war forced upon them, this one in a most vicious and war rule violating as ever has occurred, attempting to achieve Hitlerian depth of ugliness and barbarity. Even as those who invaded Israel claim justification and victimhood, and gin up false numbers and statistics and states of life that never were, and the world believes, full immersion into their falsehoods.   

Furthermore, the very fate of Israel is glommed onto by a world which hates it. France and Saudi Arabia are initiating a conference in New York State of all places, where they will discuss the solution of a two states existence in Palestine and guess who has no presence, no voice there? This has been happening for almost two years as nations other than Israel discuss its state and its dismemberment.

This cannot continue, and yet no one moves to admit that fact and instead moves on with scoldings and lectures and beliefs of impossible to believe lies. It is a condition which can not much longer exist for it is brutal and problematic as ever and unless a fair and eqitable solution with full acknowledgement of the right of Israel to exist, its legitimacy, its true nationhood, even as attested to within the political world by the Balfour Declaration (hello, England) and the United Nations - yes, that very same organization-then neither will there be a Palestine for Israel will not, cannot write itself off.

It did not do so - neither yesterday nor today. 

It will certainly not do so for the tomorrows to come.

Never. 

NEVER!

 

WHO, WHAT, HOW ARE WE? WHAT MAKES US TICK?

  And so, to continue the saga, to help one and all understand who the Jews are, what makes up our substance, what drives us, what is important to us and why is that so - to understand all that you have to take a step back from yesterday's posting. Only then can one begin to understand what those answers are and why.

We must return to the time of the Romans, the people who destroyed our second Temple, who exiled us from our homeland, who mistakenly thought they had for once and for all defeated that pesky little nation state and the people within who held off that Empire for years. Their greatest treasures were taken by Rome, and some remain  allegedly within the depths of the Vatican. Much of the population were led off into slavery, yet many remained, The simpler people, the ones who did not cause fear to Romans for they had no power, no wealth, no possibility of rebellion and would probably be destroyed by the harsh conditions of their land.  

Foolish thinking, and  history has proven so, that, despite all the oppression and persecution and bias and repression and suppression, the Judeans remaining in their conquered land remained for centuries, were joined by others, welcomed those who throughout the millennia made religious journeys to their Holy Land.  The Jews scattered around the world in Diaspora, Galut, determined to survive and not merely barely, but to build families, communities, to remain true to their faith, their G-d, to trust in His Promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to all their descendants - a homeland of their own, in perpetuity. All the while they struggled to live, even prosper, a very difficult thing to do within the strictures placed upon those of Jewish origin, but they did. Invited in by rulers who knew that Jews increased the profitability of any nation in which they resided, who lent the ruling authorities gold coin, these same rulers refused to repay and exiled the very same ones who had saved them in time of need. France, England, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and on and on, throughout the centuries, it mattered not. Used as practice targets for swords during the Crusades or burned at stakes as heretics or in the Tower of York in England, or accused of treachery as was Dreyfus, or accused of blood libel, as were many, including Mendel Beilis, accused of economic malfeasance and lack of morality, as depraved less than human creatures, and finally, the most powerful attempt to totally extinguish their light via the Holocaust. 

Ironic, as Jews were the ones who introduced a system based on morality and truth, who elevated the necessity to chase justice, vigorously, to aid the needy and the poor, to welcome the stranger in the midst, who defined the traits of a good ruler, who set up a system of justice complete with compassion and responsibility. Even when exiled from a land into which they been invited, their invitations rescinded or made null and void, and restrictions placed again upon them - forbidden to own land, to follow certain professions, survive we did, and many times were able to educate the children as well. If the world has any complaints about why it is that they were known for lending money to kings and rulers, it is because that was the only profession in many countries they were allowed to pursue.   

 When able to, the Jewish people sought better places. Made their our way to nations where   citizenship was granted, where efforts and industry were appreciated. Hard work, educating the children, and contribution to the nation. However, all the while, loyal to adopted nations and serving in their armed forces, always there was a chill down the spine, a hunching of shoulders in tension as to when the next axe would fall, for so history has taught us. Nasty remarks, employment and education quotas - it took decades and decades to erode, to overcome this and we now see that those moments, those experiences of unease, are there, remaining directed at us, for us. Simply take a look around and see what we see, hear what we hear. Know what we know

Back to the Romans. Contrary to their thinking, the Jewish people remained attached to their homeland. No matter where they were in the diaspora their prayers were in the direction of that homeland Wishes to return remained for the millennia. Many returned from the barren threatening lands of Europe and turned to rebuilding their homeland where they could work hard and prosper and where they could follow injunctions to defend themselves against those who would refuse their homeland to them, to fight within the rules of God but to know that fight for survival was of utmost importance. a ninthenameof survival. 

Unfortunately, the armed forces of Israel have Been held to a double standard fight but do not wound or kill anyone No destruction of any property or infrastructure no matter what is being hidden inside or beneath support the "civilians” of the enemy and never mind the fact that many are not so. No collateral damage at all allowed despite the fact that most of the fighters are embedded among their own civilians. The responsibility for their deaths falls upon the shoulders of those who enable that zone of safety.   

Throughout history. We have often been warred upon but have laid down roots, shoulders to the wheel, noses to the grindstone and worked hard, and took care of their own and always followed a dream where they would be free, respected. Time and time again the Jewish nation pulled themselves up, stood straight and tall, with faith in their Lord, that the promise would be kept. To be returned to that homeland, to live within, to build it up, to defend it, and to be free from hate and violence.  For millennia we waited, patient but determined and we made the land of desert and swamp into a thriving nation replete with contributions to the world, even as it took in the persecuted Jews from nations round the world, as Jews of all nations returned home. A homeland as all other nations desired and had or fought for.  

Through all the millennia the Jewish people have learned that there was no one better than themselves to themselves There is no one else who will fight to the last rock left to throw at the enemy? Other than themselves there is no one better to build their pride, to know that they are the descendants of brave and determined people and will be true to their heritage. and their responsibility to defend themselves, to be responsible for themselves no matter how hard, no matter how long.

Now, 2025 almost two years exactly from the heinous massacre of women, of children, of mass rape, of starvation, a revival of Holocaust conditions with hostages still remaining barely hanging on, with all our offers, with all our righteous demands, Hamas plays dangerous games even as the  world revives the oldest hate  - JewHatred.  

Even as we approach that two-year anniversary, we will remain strong and we will remember who we are: one nation, one people. No matter how much arguing, how much we air our disagreements to others we are one. 

We are Amcha - your nation, my nation.

The password of recognition during the Holocaust.

  Today we all need to remember Amcha.

The yesterdays and todays unfortunately have begun to resemble each other. But we will refuse to allow that to shatter the optimism of our tomorrows.

Read the history of which I have omitted much. It tells the truth.

Please note there will be no posting tomorrow, as flight again. I will return on Wednesday.

Stay safe, stay true.