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As the vaccines begin to roll in, so does the hope of going back to normal. It’s not the bright, expectant kind of hope, but of the weary, nervous type; not only because we’ve started to forget what our previous definitions of normal were, but also because on another level, we know it’s not the same reality we’re heading back to. Concern burns through the international subconscious in each private language, seeming to have its focus on assessing the damage and wondering how drastically altered we’ll find each of our national landscapes once the smoke clears. Destructive and devastating, this pandemic has left behind a lot of darkness; the best we can do to have any semblanc
Follow your vision, and stay true to your beliefs and principles. Never just go along and never discard your beliefs. Spirituality is not “juggling” it’s priorities
Who: Howard Jonas, serial entrepreneur, best known as the founder and chairman of IDT, a multi-billion-dollar telecommunications corporation.
What: At the age of 14, Howard started hustling as a hot-dog vendor outside a local hospital. His drive for success then led to driving a delivery truck and to study economics at Harvard. In 1979, when he was 23, he founded Jonas Media Group, and in 1990 he founded long-distance provider IDT Corporation, and has been chairman of the board since its inception. But his business interests go far beyond IDT. He made a splash in 2000 by selling a stake in the Internet calling company Net2Phone to AT&T for more than $1 billion; in 2017, he sold Straight Path Communication to Verizon for $3.1 billion (even though just two years earlier, he considered Straight Path his biggest bu
Letters to My Children and Grandchildren Part 4
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Pirkei Avos, that I wrote for my children
. I have received good feedback from readers and hope that you have
been inspired to write your own letters as a legacy to the next generation. If
so, then my goal in sharing will have been accomplished.
hakaras hatov (gratitude) to Hashem. Give
tzedaka to the less fortunate so they can have
simcha as well.
Happiness
Always
try to maintain a sense of humor when it is proper, and use humor to make
others happy. People enjoy being around cheerful, happy people. Being overly
WWW: Let me begin by saying thank you so much for joining us; we appreciate your time. I guess we will jump right in to the most pressing thing on everyone’s mind: COVID. You were just inaugurated. How do you think the city has handled COVID so far, and what do you think you can do better in the future as mayor?
Scott: I think that we have really done a good job of handling COVID thus far, under the leadership of the city health commissioner, Dr. Dzirasa, who is doing a fantastic job. But, yes, there’s always room for improvement. We are, first and foremost, going to continue following the advice of the public health professionals. I also want to say that I feel lucky to be mayor of the city that has 11 hospitals. It has Johns Hopkins, which is leading the world in COVID research. We also have University of Maryland Medical System; we are using them as well to help influence what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.
The 5 Towns Jewish Times
December 10, 2020
My family had occasion this week to travel for the first time since COVID-19 set in. Actually, the last time that we were onboard an aircraft was the first week of March 2020, just a few days before we’d learn of the first COVID case in our relatively local Jewish community.
For those who are concerned about our trip, we responsibly contacted all of the school safety personnel prior to planning our extended weekend and have been following their protocol.
This past Shabbos marked another 19 Kislev, which is a significant day in that it commemorates the release of the Ba’al HaTanya from prison, which gave the Alter Rebbe authorization to disseminate the inner light of the Torah that he received from his Rebbe, the Maggid, who received it directly from the mouth of the Ba’al Shem Tov. In a letter that Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi disseminated after his historic liberation, he describes this day as a day upon which the