Some people didn’t quite believe the picture of the peacock and rooster. So here it is from the opposite direction. The peacock is a little clipped, and these pictures were taken with my cellphone so they’re not totally clear, but the perversion is obvious….
With no trouble at all I could fill these pages with complaints about laws being made in Israel. The one about illegal immigrants. The crazy taxes. The lack of government developed industry bothers me the most today. I ran into some students who are unemployed and some old friends who are unemployable (and being treated for depression) and all i could think about was a new deal. The number of teachers, tutors, teacher’s aides, nurse’s aides, administrative assistants needed in government institutions is phenomenal. The amount of funds required to ‘employ’ people in these positions certainly is less than the amount of damage to the social structure of society which wastes its human resources and
demoralizes the population. I’d get some of the incredibly young writers I’ve met this year involved in a guidebook for all the villages and cities in this country, like they had in the ’30′s in the U.S., and art projects to take some of the ugliness out of the little development towns (although there I think we’re not doing all that badly.) More music teachers. More cleaners. More interior designers. More shesh-besh teachers.
I have long suspected that one of the reasons for the increase of autism in children is the lack of human contact in our society – not just Israel but everywhere. So the idea of more regular ‘people’ becoming involved in the educational process is one of my big dreams. My own life was significantly altered by adult attention at crucial periods in my children – the kindness of strangers – people talking to me, asking me questions, taking a bloody interest. This was my mother’s major success – she could get blood out of a stone by paying attention to children. I will never forget the way she trained a seriously mentally challenged child for his bar mitzvah. Some people said it was just rote learning but I knew his whole life would be affected by the success he managed to achieve that day before the entire congregation. In other words, making people involved in a society by giving them employment benefits the individual and benefits the society.
http://ga3.org/campaign/weve_got_your_back_pledge?qp_source=gb_1
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Dear President Obama,
Please know that I share your sense of urgency to bring peace to the Middle East.
Therefore, I pledge:
to back your committed and persistent leadership in support of a negotiated two-state solution
to work within my communities to build the political will that will enable you to take decisive and bold steps — and to urge Congress to support you in this endeavor
to make it known that an American President who dedicates himself to establishing a durable Israeli-Palestinian peace acts in the best interests of Israelis, Palestinians, the United States and our allies
to support you in staying the course through difficult times and to celebrate your successes
In Hebrew, the words for wind and for spirit are one and the same — ruach. As you work for peace, I promise that the ruach of the American Jewish people and our friends in the pro-Israel community will be at your back.
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