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Dear Alice,

 You may have addressed this already, as it is a common problem, but maybe discussing it again will help me and others like me. I start off every day so well. I am determined to lose weight and eat my breakfast, lunch, and snacks carefully and on plan. When it comes to dinner, however, I mess the whole thing up. I don’t have time to prepare my own dinner, so I end up eating whatever I made for the kids. I tell myself that I will just have a portion-controlled amount, but I end up eating more dinner than I planned. Then I sabotage the rest of the night because I am exhausted, stressed, and upset that I messed up my diet by dinner. How do I end this vicious cycle?

Recap: Yonah spent a wonderful Shabbos in Greenwood. It was hard to go back to his relatives and all the prejudice in Neshoba.

 A few days later, I felt an air of excitement when I entered the Freedom School. “These men are going to exercise their right to vote,” Mickey shouted. Everyone yelled enthusiastically, “Yes!”

The Israeli Air Force began during the 1948 War of Independence, built on the “Sherut Avir” that existed for six months prior, and that was planned with the assistance of those who had served in the RAF and USAF. In the earliest days of air might in Israel, people volunteered their knowledge and skills, and parts and equipment were secured from many places.

“Not only one has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us.” These words, recited during the most emotional point of the Pesach Seder, still ring true, despite the incredible freedoms American Jews enjoy. Six months after the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, last week another shooting occurred at the Chabad in Poway, California. A few days earlier, The New York Times published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a big-nosed dog with a Jewish star necklace leading a yarmulke-wearing, blind President Trump. Anti-Semitism rears its ugly head in many forms, and American Jews must be knowledgeable of who our enemies are and where they come from if we are to continue to survive.

Risk is part of daily life, and risk tolerance varies. Try something new. Make a change. Feeling vulnerable is so scary. It is.

As elder law attorneys, we often meet with clients who are aging or are related to those who are aging. Elder law covers a broad range of areas, including helping the elderly and disabled attain the governmental benefits they need while simultaneously preserving their assets. Another component of elder law is basic estate planning. We typically prepare wills, trusts and advance directives for our clients and their family members.