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Kislev 6, 5769, 12/3/2008
Chicken Little, Mortars Falling!
Is this a Chicken Little story? Or does "mortar fall" rhyme with "water fall?" 
a natural wonder Did the mortar which very seriously injured Elyasaf ben Nurit just fall? Our enemies are trying to destroy us. One thing for sure. We need a lot more than "wishing" and "make believe" to protect us. 
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Kislev 4, 5769, 12/1/2008
*New Version* Like Being Kicked In The Kishkes!
This post has been re-written. I have been corresponding with Robert Katz. Please read this new version; it comes to different conclusions. Thank you I didn't expect this. A couple of minutes ago, after dinner and after washing the dishes, I returned to the computer to read the news. My husband had left the Ha'aretz English newspaper on the screen. And no, in this case Ha'aretz isn't the guilty party. I saw that there was an article saying that Rebbitzin Rivka Holtzberg, HaYa"D's parents are thinking of taking up their dead daughter's post in Mumbai. Apparently the information was given by Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman's fundraiser, Robert Katz. Rabbi Grossman was Rivka Holtzberg's uncle and he is the founder of the Migdal Ohr in Migdal Haemek. Katz then said: "This couple wasn't living in the West Bank. They weren't settlers. They weren't occupying anyone's land. They were killed because they were Jews, plain and simple." ----- Yes, I felt sick when I read that, and I don't have to pretend otherwise. Thirteen years ago, I survived an Arab terror attack with light injuries. Our Shiloh Cemetery has many victims of Arab terror attacks, mostly teenagers.
Terror attacks are a very sensitive subject with me.
Robert Katz emailed me explaining that he hadn't meant what he said. He was being "sarcastic."
Obviously, he had never read my instructions for dealing with the media. Sarcasm is the big "no, no." My lawyer daughter says that she learned a lot from the movie, "My Cousin Vinnie," which is about the importance of punctuation and avoiding sarcasm.
I wish Mr. Katz the best of luck and apologize for writing badly of him.
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Kislev 2, 5769, 11/29/2008
Hands in The Kitchen, Hearts in Mumbai
By now, we all know that Jews were murdered in in India, in Mumbai last week. Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, and kashrus inspector Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum and some not yet identified, Hashem Yinkom Damam. 
Yes, in laid back peaceful India, the place Israelis and others go to escape the pressures of the real world. Well, the real world is in India, too. Since Thursday we had been praying for those Jewish hostages, and all others in danger, in the Chabad Nariman House in Mumbai. Friday morning, Rosh Chodesh Kislev, we prayed for them at Tel Shiloh. In my house, my husband and I had internet news coming out of India reporting anarchy, battles, attempts at rescue. It was hard to cook and concentrate on anything. 
Specially trained Israeli "emergency medics," from ZAKA arrived in India. They were hoping to do first aid, but instead they protected the dead, the murdered Jews. 
We didn't know any of the people, but our hearts are with their families and friends. HaMakom Y'Nachem, May G-d Comfort the Mourners...
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The Eye of the Storm
by Batya Medad
A Unique Perspective
by Batya Medad of Shiloh
Batya Medad made aliya from New York to Israel in 1970 and has been living in Shiloh since 1981. Recently she began organizing women's visits to Tel Shiloh for Psalms and prayers. (For more information, please email her.) Batya is a veteran jblogger and recently stopped EFL teaching. She's also a wife, mother, grandmother, photographer and HolyLand hitchhiker, always seeing things from her own very unique perspective. For more of Batya's writings and photos, check out: Shiloh Musings And: me-ander |
