Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Anna Salton Eisen will be the featured speaker at the third annual Beauty for Ashes Luncheon, March 22, 2024, at the Kingwood Country Club. Click here for more information. As…
International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust Garden of Hope
On January 28, 2024, International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the fifth anniversary of its establishment, the Holocaust Garden of Hope hosted a gathering of over 100 at Kings Harbor Waterfront…
A Moral Rot at Rice University
Moshe Vardi 12/6/23 December 1, 2023, was my 30th anniversary at Rice University. I was not always a “happy camper” at Rice. At times, I had significant disagreements with Rice’s…
CHP Kingwood Update Summer 2022
CHP, compassionate healing prayer, at HCA Kingwood Hospital is growing! We are greeted with open arms by the staff, who request prayer for themselves as well as their patients. Warm caring relationships have developed between the staff and us, who many times say, "I prayed you would come help my patient, and you walked into the room without being called!" Such is the perfect timing of our God, Whose knowledge transcends all earthly crises. Al and I walked into ICU to be greeted by the charge nurse who said, "I'm so glad you're here! I have four patients who are dying within the hour, and I don't know if they all are saved. Please go visit them now while there is time."
Look what the Lord has done!
He has brought us safely through a year rife with danger, fear, hostility and doubt. Yes, 2020 has been a tumultuous year. However, nothing that happened in 2020 was a surprise to our Sovereign God. We are filled with joy because our God has bared His mighty right arm and is fighting for us; He will never leave us nor forsake us. We have walked through the valley of the shadow of death and come out safely on the other side. Let us enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise in 2021!
Global Day of Action on Sukkot: Reconciliation, Not Hate!
On Sunday, October 4, people of many diverse backgrounds gathered at King’s Harbor, the Kingwood, Texas location for the Holocaust Garden of Hope, to celebrate Reconciliation Not Hate. We took a stand for Israel and Jewish Life by observing the biblical holiday of Sukkoth, or Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkot (plural of Sukkah, or Tabernacles) were built and decorated (see accompanying pictures), and in the tradition of the holiday we found ways to “dwell” in those booths. One became the stage where music was performed and messages were proclaimed, another covered the registration table and two more were the locations where children and adults participated in the Upstander Stones Project. The March of Remembrance/March of Life Global Day of Action: "Reconciliation, Not Hate" was conceived by the March of Life organization in Germany and people in 70 cities worldwide gathered as we did throughout the day. March of Life founder Jobst Bittner spoke from the event in Germany.
Julie Levey is a 12th grader at the Spence School in New York.
Unexodus — a story of freedom
The smell of albondigas — Sephardic meatballs with peas and artichoke hearts — diffuses through our kitchen but not through our home, as it usually does. This year, the single pot my mother is cooking will suffice. One pot will feed six, with leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch. Four pots feed 18 people, leaving a few Tupperwares to freeze.
Leonard Nimoy’s Mameloshn: A Yiddish Story
Leonard Nimoy - Jewish actor most well-known for his role as Spock on the Star Trek science fiction series - was interviewed by Christa Whitney in Los Angeles, California on October 15, 2013. Parts of this interview are in Yiddish, subtitled in English.
Everyone’s mad at de Blasio’s ‘Jewish community’ comment for the wrong reason
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio came under an onslaught of criticism on Tuesday night when he tweeted his reaction to the overcrowded funeral procession for a rabbi from the Satmar Hasidic sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews. The first tweet called the crowd that had in South Williamsburg, in violation of statewide bans on gatherings of 10 or more people, “unacceptable.” But de Blasio’s subsequent message sent Twitter into a spasm of rage because it began, “My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups.”