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…
Downloads from “Dad” – Sanctuary
Chanukah/Sanctuary/Menorah Great is My Faithfulness Great is My Strength Great are you When you follow Me To any length Long is My Endurance Long is My Life Long is My…
May I Appeal To Your Heart?
Dear caring friend, I am writing you today while sitting in my car. I must get something off my chest after visiting with my grandchildren today...
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!
Healing Blessings for the New Year
We are the good ground who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience. We may be in the world but we’re not of it, we do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. We will speak to our symptoms saying, “you are the lie, the word of God is the truth!” Let us pray for each other and encourage each other in this way until it penetrates deeper and we become more and more aware of His Presence and His Power within us and one day we wake up and the symptoms are gone!
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.
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.”
Israel’s 72nd Independence Day: Cherishing, Protecting, & Celebrating the Jewish State
Gilad Katz
During these unprecedented and incredibly difficult times, please allow me to take a pause from the day to day news that now seems to be a part of the new “normal”, the new everyday life. Permit me, just for a moment, to shift the conversation away from the uncertainty that we all feel today, as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Instead, I would like to share with you,
on Israel’s Independence Day, a personal enlightenment that I experienced just two years ago, when my family and I celebrated our first Yom Ha'atzmaut in the United States.