Hey all,
Just a quick 1-second Happy Chanuka to all! Hope everyone's eighth night is full of light tonight, and may we all continue to bring light into each other's worlds throughout the year.
I'll send everyone a quick laugh. Rebecca, a friend from University of Michigan, is visiting from Amman before she moves to Bahrain for her Fulbright Fellowship research. So she just used my Skype to call her mom in New Jersey and was telling her all about her first Shabbat in Jerusalem, where my roommates and I observe Shabbat according to Jewish law (and I really have to get off the computer asap as time is running out). Anyway, the Skype connection went down, and then Rebecca called right back. Her mom said, "Oh, I thought they had turned all the electricity off!" So that's our fun inter-cultural lesson for the night: no, Israel doesn't turn off all the country's electricity on Shabbat!
More to come soon. חנוכה שמח!
אריק/Eric
Friday, December 18, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
A bit more cool news
Hi again everyone,
Old friend Caroline Musin found my picture today in this Chicago Jewish News Special Needs Birthright article. It was really cool to see the article tie together the 2007 Hillel Rolls trip and the 2008 Shorashim-Koach special needs trip, both of which I staffed. I'm hoping to meet up with this year's group very soon!
With that I call it a really late night,
אריק/Eric
Old friend Caroline Musin found my picture today in this Chicago Jewish News Special Needs Birthright article. It was really cool to see the article tie together the 2007 Hillel Rolls trip and the 2008 Shorashim-Koach special needs trip, both of which I staffed. I'm hoping to meet up with this year's group very soon!
With that I call it a really late night,
אריק/Eric
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Welcome to my new blog!
Hi loyal friends and family, so sorry about the extended blogging vacation. Back at it from a new location:
xanga has given me fits for quite some time, so the recent complete inability to access their website at all has spurred me to finally follow blogger friend Benji Lovitt's advice and move here to blogspot. In addition to the lovely fact that this is a functioning website, I'm most excited about (and pleased already by) the outstanding autosave feature.
Thank you all so much for all your kind words and prayers for my dad. Please do keep up those tehillim (psalms), prayers, etc. as this is a big month for Jerry/ידידיה בן נעמי/Yedidya Ben Naomi. The chemo's scheduled to continue into January, and Dad has a couple of big scans coming up (one of those is this Tuesday). Please G-d, we'll get good results that no cancer has spread.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I took it down a notch from last year's four Thanksgiving dinners (half of the hosts/families have left the country), and just savored the one killer round of turkey, then of course enjoyed the Cowboys win over a beer with an old TX buddy. I tried my hand at Mom's interpretation of Nana (Dad's Mom)'s green bean casserole recipe...practice (and maybe key ingredients purchased ahead of time in the States) will have to make that one perfect. We are all of course so thankful that Dad made it through a scary summer, and thankful for his two beautiful healthy grandsons!
xanga has given me fits for quite some time, so the recent complete inability to access their website at all has spurred me to finally follow blogger friend Benji Lovitt's advice and move here to blogspot. In addition to the lovely fact that this is a functioning website, I'm most excited about (and pleased already by) the outstanding autosave feature.
Thank you all so much for all your kind words and prayers for my dad. Please do keep up those tehillim (psalms), prayers, etc. as this is a big month for Jerry/ידידיה בן נעמי/Yedidya Ben Naomi. The chemo's scheduled to continue into January, and Dad has a couple of big scans coming up (one of those is this Tuesday). Please G-d, we'll get good results that no cancer has spread.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I took it down a notch from last year's four Thanksgiving dinners (half of the hosts/families have left the country), and just savored the one killer round of turkey, then of course enjoyed the Cowboys win over a beer with an old TX buddy. I tried my hand at Mom's interpretation of Nana (Dad's Mom)'s green bean casserole recipe...practice (and maybe key ingredients purchased ahead of time in the States) will have to make that one perfect. We are all of course so thankful that Dad made it through a scary summer, and thankful for his two beautiful healthy grandsons!
I'm still keeping quite busy between working + a pseudo-job, volunteering regularly (the Tuesdays at Cafe Europa with Holocaust survivors continue to be amazing), auditing a gerontology class at Hebrew University, researching potential graduate degree options, applying for work in elder care, and squeezing in time with friends--mostly celebrating a nice wave of engagements and weddings!
The pseudo-job is promoting this amazing Geriatric Study Tour in Israel sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Aging of Shaare Zedek Hospital and Melabev. That connection got me into a cool Shaare Zedek hospital fun
draiser with Phil Rosenthal ("Everybody Loves Raymond" Creator and Executive Producer). Rosenthal and his wife were enjoying their first day in Israel on a business trip for an upcoming TV series based here. The Rosenthals were pretty hilarious in explaining some of the backstories for the show's plots while playing "Raymond" clips with medical connections. I hadn't realized that the Romanos on the show were an Italian family based on Rosenthal's Jewish upbringing. I told him that I'd get into the show anew after figuring that out; he said "I guess we did our job," was genuinely friendly, and took this photo with me.
I'll have to catch up on the less-breaking news soon. Take care for now! Love,
אריק/Eric
The pseudo-job is promoting this amazing Geriatric Study Tour in Israel sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Aging of Shaare Zedek Hospital and Melabev. That connection got me into a cool Shaare Zedek hospital fun
draiser with Phil Rosenthal ("Everybody Loves Raymond" Creator and Executive Producer). Rosenthal and his wife were enjoying their first day in Israel on a business trip for an upcoming TV series based here. The Rosenthals were pretty hilarious in explaining some of the backstories for the show's plots while playing "Raymond" clips with medical connections. I hadn't realized that the Romanos on the show were an Italian family based on Rosenthal's Jewish upbringing. I told him that I'd get into the show anew after figuring that out; he said "I guess we did our job," was genuinely friendly, and took this photo with me.I'll have to catch up on the less-breaking news soon. Take care for now! Love,
אריק/Eric
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