Style & Living

 “Op-ed: I don’t want to live in a world where a mother of seven and successful judge makes it to the highest court in the land”

 “Biden says Mao Zedong’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ was ‘just an idea’” 

It’s a mistake to trust a snake,

He leaves destruction in his wake;

His forked tongue can speak from both sides,

Recap: Bayla, Mimi, and Sophie are on the boat headed to Missouri. 

We were standing in front of the boat and I was hugging Fraidy so hard. We were both crying. Fraidy in her short life had already had too many separations. She was a three-year-old who was like a mini-grownup in terms of the sorrow she had to absorb. Aliza grabbed onto my leg. “No, you can’t go.”

You’re a stiff-necked people,

Our Father did say.

Prone to distraction, led easily astray.

Willful and troublesome,

(Courtesy of Soroka Medical Center) Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva is Israel’s only major medical center for the entire Negev region, and one of Israel’s most strategic institutions.  It offers outstanding medical care to a profoundly diverse population, spanning cancer care, infection control, genetics, clinical research, emergency medicine and many other specialties.  The entire Negev depends on Soroka for their health; a huge responsibility during peace, war and now pandemics.

When we hear about issues that arise in our community, it is human nature to dismiss them as inapplicable to us.  We naturally find some rationalization as to why the issue cannot possibly be relevant to our lives or our families.  We lull ourselves into a false sense of security and convince ourselves that we are not in danger, that we are somehow immune to the problems and struggles of general society.  So, while we are regularly confronted with data clearly demonstrating that issues like alcohol disorders, substance misuse, and addiction occur in our community at rates almost identical to the public at large, we find a way to explain away the data.