 |
| My interview with Gafnit last month |
Visit Our Sponsor |
 |
| Interview with Gafnit 2nd part |
|
| Our Sponsors |
 |
| Our Synagogue |
You are invited to join services at our Synagogue any time see details
Cantor - Boaz Pnini |
|
|
 Greetings,
By popular demand.. these are the words I was entertaining in my mind to use when I start writing again, and now I can. So, by popular demand.. I am going to give this another shot (shot is a very bad word to use now a days) for these rambles. I have not written for a while and was wondering if it is still going to work.
It seems that these days so much is happening in Israel and in the world and in the US, that being an anchor of sanity is not an easy task. Trying to juggle all the demands of personal, family and community lives, and still have fun and reason and hope, that is a challenge.
Just in the last week in Israel, a man burnt himself alive in the cause of social justice, a 102 years old Haredi Rabbi who was a central figure of the Haredi world, died, leaving not less than 1400 (one thousand four hundred) descendants (That includes great grandchildren of grandchildren, go do the math..). The social protest never stopped surprising in its many faces, facets and initiatives, and all of these in the midst of myriads threats for the very existence of Israel.
It begs the question, where is it all going to end. to which the obvious answer is: It is not. It is going to continue and keeps changing and reforming until it will become something new we have no idea about now, just like we could hardly envisioned our world as it is now 10 years ago.
So long for clarity. What I find intriguing is that often we feel a sense of certainty in the face of so much ambiguity and senselessness. So be an anchor of sanity if you can.
With hope,
Boaz Pnini
Bridges 2 Israel
|
| Israel is alive and so is The Social Protest |
 |
Photo taken from Fromen Ra'anan facebook "I shall not stay silent for my country has changed her countenance"
Click on photo for a slide show featuring a march from North to South FOR social change |
We do not hear as much about the social protest as we did last year, it is incubating, it is vigorous, it is going on, it does not get as much media coverage, but I know, I read their weekly newsletter and a lot is going on.
What is so fascinating to me is the young generation language, articulations and the lack of hate and revolutionary zeal of the destructive kind, focusing on being FORthings rather than against.
For example: At the entrance for Kibbutz Yakum they erected a wall and a tower which looks like the ones which where built in the pioneers' time. They named it "Tower of Justice" and wrote under it:
For reasonable priced housing
For housing for young couples
For students housing
For public housing etc..., and what wrongs with that?!
Maybe you can see what it looks like here
Moshe Silman who put himself on fire last week died from his wounds, that was a shocking unprecedented act of extreme desperation and, and is causing a lot of inner reflections and search in the young and all people, who mostly were appalled by the act but also saw the profound desperation that is shouting through this extreme act.
It was very interesting to listen to an interview with Moshe Silman just a month ago in Haifa, where he smoke and drink his coffee and was talking in a clear and composed way about the impossible bureaucracy loops he had to go through to just be able to survive.
I hope this will never happen again, but the discussion and positive activism it spurred may not go to waste, we do want a better and more just state of Israel, I do.
Boaz Pnini
Bridges 2 Israel
|
| What do you think about that? |
 |
| Peace love and refugee camp |
Kind of a last moment thing, watch it, enjoy and tell me what you think. I will share my thoughts next issue. |
| Still want to help abandoned animals in Israel? |
 |
| Learn more about "From Violent to Compassion" watch my recent interview with Bibi |
Jamie is a Bar Mitzvah students of mine and is passionate about his Bar Mitzvah project, read below.
Boaz
__________________________________________
Hi everyone!
I'm here to tell you about an important new development with my mitzvah project!
Here's a specific example of the great work Let the Animals Live is doing. I hope you will please donate.
Tomy is a stray that Let the Animals Live is helping. His back legs don't function properly so he needs to get a wheelchair to move around on his own. But this will take about $1,000. Let the Animals Live is about half way to its goal, and I think it would be great it we can help LAL get the rest of the way!
Please view this video to learn more about Tomy and this fundraiser:
Together, we can save Tomy and help him live a full life.
Donations would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jamie
|
|
Lake kineret corner
I often visit in my mind and imagination the few moments I had been diving in the kineret last month. It was peace. and I can still feel it when I close my eyes and imagine myself swimming with the fish, up and down layers of blue green water, clean and healing to my body and soul.
The lake is going down as it does every year. This year it is going down slower, either because of less water drawing or because there was enough rain last winter. The summer heat is close to extreme this year so evaporation is at least as normal.
|
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment