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On January 9, Fannie Mae issued a Servicing Notice regarding claims for reimbursement of foreclosure sheriff’s costs. Noting that some states require that the sheriff’s office perform some or all of the tasks associated with completing a foreclosure sale, the notice clarifies that when a servicer files a claim for reimbursement of the sheriff’s costs associated with foreclosure activities, Fannie Mae may require that the servicer provide supporting documentation with its request. Fannie Mae prefers that such costs be documented in a cost sheet on the sheriff’s office letterhead, but the notice includes an attachment listing other acceptable forms of documentation. The notice provides other reminders regarding the sheriff’s costs claim reimbursement process and supporting documentation.

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Crude oil moving on the railroads has been traditionally shipped in the tank car known as the DOT 111.  However, as early as 1991, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) expressed concern over the risks associated with transporting flammable materials in the 111s due to the thinness of the steel shell of the car.  As shipments of crude oil grew significantly in the last five years (from 9,500 carloads originated by U.S. railroads in 2008 to nearly 234,000 in 2012), concern over whether the 111 was adequate to handle flammable goods rose throughout the country

In 2011, a Tank Car Committee made up of the Association of American Railroads (AAR), rail shippers, and tank car manufacturers implemented voluntary standards for tank cars shipping crude oil by rail.  The result of the new standard was the development of what's known as the CFC 1232 car, or simply the 1232.  The 1232 is equipped with a thicker, more puncture-resistant shell (or jacket), extra protective head shields at both ends of tank car, and additional protection for the top fittings.

However, the adequacy of the 1232 cars  was called into question after the cars punctured during derailments, leading to the release of hazardous materials.  In part as a result of this heightened concern, the NTSB held a forum on rail safety and the transportation of crude oil and ethanol last week, in which the suitability of the 1232 was discussed at length.

During the NTSB's forum, Robert Fronczak of the AAR said that the 1232 cars are "no longer adequate."  In contrast, Bob Greco of the American Petroleum Institute noted that the 1232 cars exceed the current DOT requirements and urged the adoption of rules that would use the 1232 as a standard for tank cars going forward.  The parties' differing comments at the forum reflect the uncertainty over whether the 1232, which shippers have invested heavily in, is safe and suitable for crude oil and ethanol rail transport or whether a newer, higher standard of tank car is necessary.

Also speaking at the Forum was Dr. Magdy El-Sibaie, of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).  Last year, PHMSA issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking input on regulations addressing tank car safety.  Dr. El-Sibaie said that PHMSA is working hard to issue the subsequent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.  DOT officials have indicated that a comprehensive rule will be released the week of April 28, 2014.  PHMSA's rule could have significant impact on the supply of rail cars for crude by rail shipments.

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'Oh, Say Can You See ... ' 140 Jeep(R) Vehicles in Giant American Flag Formation to Raise Awareness of National Anthem Project

- Jeep owners create largest American flag of its kind
- Flag celebrates Jeep brand's sponsorship of three-year initiative to
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- The Oak Ridge Boys, musical ambassadors for the National Anthem
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WHAT: More than 140 Jeep(R) owners and their red, white, blue -- and silver -- Jeep vehicles will converge on the Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport on Thursday, August 11 to create a giant American flag to celebrate the Jeep brand's sponsorship of the National Anthem Project in conjunction with Camp Jeep(R), the largest owner event of its kind.

The construction of the American flag made entirely of Jeep vehicles raises awareness for the "National Anthem Project: Restoring America's Voice," a three-year national education initiative created by the National Association for Music Education (MENC) to reteach Americans the National Anthem and its history.

The Oak Ridge Boys, musical ambassadors for the National Anthem Project, will lead hundreds of Jeep owners as they sing the "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The flag, being created with the help of Jeep owners from across the country arriving in the Pocono Mountains to participate in the 11th annual Camp Jeep, measures approximately 73 ft. wide by 191 ft. long and weighs nearly 226 tons.

WHO: The following will be available for interviews:
* The Oak Ridge Boys
* Jeff Bell, Vice President - Chrysler/Jeep
* John Mahlmann, Executive Director of the MENC
* Jeep owners

WHEN: Thursday, August 11, 2005
Camp Jeep Press Conference at 12:30 p.m. EDT
Jeep Owner American Flag and The Oak Ridge Boys at 1:30 p.m. EDT

WHERE: Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport
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PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: * American flag made of Jeep vehicles
* The Oak Ridge Boys performing "The Star-Spangled
* Jeep owners with their vehicles.

The Oak Ridge Boys will perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the opening of Camp Jeep at Jack Frost Ski Resort, Friday, August 12, 2005 at 9 a.m.

Other Camp Jeep activities taking place during the weekend that are open to the public include:

Sunday, August 14
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* Noon - Jeep King of the Mountain Championships
- The Jeep King of the Mountain Series features some of the world's
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$100,000, and the keys to a new 2006 Jeep Commander
* 2 p.m. - Concert featuring Gavin DeGraw

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I have a 2012 Black Jeep that I have the stock 18's plastidipped on. I am contemplating doing the grill and rear brow but hesitate because I am not sure how it will look mixed in with the surroundings of the factory paint being that its black.

So does anyone have this they can show me? Also does anyone have it with the gloss coat applied instead of the matte finish.

BTW I am having a spare set of 18's powder coated matte black because I want something more permanent for the wheels.

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Whereas the State of Israel is the eternal home of the Jewish People, and is central to the well being of Jews the world over, and;

Whereas the Government of Israel in addressing its concern about the need to maintain a Jewish majority in all regions of the country has determined the critical need of attracting and absorbing an additional one million olim over the next ten to fifteen years, and;

Whereas the Jewish Agency by covenant with the Government of Israel has the exclusive responsibility for promoting ALIYAH, and;

Whereas the largest Jewish population for potential ALIYAH presently resides in Western countries

Now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency reaffirms its historic role in the ingathering of the Jewish people to the State of Israel, and hereby adopts as a priority activity the implementation of aplan to be agreed upon by the Aliyah and Klitah Committee in partnership with the Government of Israel to encourage one million Jews to make aliyah, become citizens of the country and strengthen the Jewish character of the State.

Be it further resolved that central to its efforts, the Jewish Agency will place a special emphasis on aliyah encouragement in countries characterized by aliyah-of-choice, and especially those countries which are home to the largest Jewish populations.

Be it further resolved, that the Jewish Agency enlists the support of its global partners, the World Zionist Organization, the United Jewish Communities and Keren Hayesod, to assist in the success of this vital imperative.

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September 2, 2004

Once Upon a Kvetch

"I never get any sleep, I never have sex and how many Jewish holidays can there be in one month?" Karen Schilling-Gould says in her comedy revue, "The Shlepperellas: Mothers Gone Mad."

She and co-star, Linda Merriweather, kvetch about cooking for Rosh Hashanah between driving carpool, fixing the toilet and "worrying about having to repent for the time and money I've just spent on the outfit to wear to temple to repent in," Schilling-Gould says.

It's the latest mom tribulation-fest to emerge from the ranks of the baby boomers, like Iris Krasnow's "Surrendering to Motherhood: Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul" and the Bay Area troupe, the Drama Mamas.

"We take the things that totally exasperate us, find the humor in it and put it in our act," Schilling-Gould says. "Like the fact that we're sick and tired of saying we're tired."

"And underarm flab," Merriweather says.

In fact the flab inspired a "Shlepperellas" song, "Vecha Flesh" ("soft meat" in Yiddish): "You reach for something in the cupboard, and you smack yourself in the face," Merriweather says.

While the Shlepperellas have earned good reviews for their humor, their beginnings weren't so funny. Back in 1991, a freaked-out Schilling-Gould, then the mother of 8-month-old twins, attended a mom's support group after learning she was expecting her third child.

"Has anyone ever had this many children in this short of a time and is it possible to survive," she asked group members, before bursting into tears.

Participants suggested she meet Merriweather, who had already experienced having three children in 16 months.

The two women ultimately founded the Shlepperellas in 1999 after discovering a mutual love for improvisational comedy. So how did they come up with the name? "We shlep a lot," Merriweather says.

"And we feel like Cinderella," Schilling-Gould adds. "As in, 'Cinderella, get my clothes. Cinderella, get my shoes.'"

But there's a glass slipper as well; family life is ultimately fulfilling for the Shlepperellas. And the show helps them deal with the aggravation: "It's like a good therapy session," Schilling-Gould says.

The Shlepperellas perform Sept. 12 at the University of Judaism. Tickets, $36 general admission, $30 group rate, benefit Yad B'Yad Los Angeles, which provides services for underprivileged children in Israel. For reservations, call (323) 658-5021.

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by Gaby Wenig

July 3, 2003 | 8:00 pm

At a cheese plant in Compton, Rabbi Avraham Vogel, a mashgiach (kosher supervisor) from OK supervision, adds a bucket of culture to a 780-gallon bath of hot milk. A table nearby is spread with cheese curd, which a worker cuts and then puts through a cooker stretcher that bathes the curd in hot water and then stretches it to produce the stringiness endemic to mozzarella cheese. Another worker slowly dips a small plastic ladle into a giant vat of small lumpy curds swimming around in yellowish whey. These are curds of ricotta cheese, which is made from the milk after the mozzarella has been extracted. The smell of hot milk is overpowering and soporific.

This production will yield 12,000 pounds of cheese for a small company called Anderson International Foods (AIF) that is trying to carve out a portion of the kosher cheese market for itself.

Brigitte Mizrahi, a French woman who now lives in Los Angeles, co-founded AIF in 1995 with the aim of producing quality kosher cheeses in attractive packages. The company currently sells kosher cheese under four labels: Natural and Kosher, which makes Mozzarella and Ricotta cheese; Les Petits Fermier, which produces "everyday" cheese such as Colby and Monterey Jack; Monsey Dairy, a line of specialty cheese such as Swiss cheese and Havarti; and La Chèvre, which is a line of goat cheese made from the milk of Chilean goats. Although AIF distributes several millions of dollars worth of cheese every year to kosher markets, supermarkets, restaurants and industrial clients, making a real dent in the kosher cheese market is a task that faces several obstacles.

Unlike other foods, which only require kosher certification of the ingredients and machinery in order to be considered kosher, cheese needs an onsite mashgiach who supervises all aspects of the production and who participates in the cheesemaking process. In that sense, cheese is like wine. Although a wine can be made of all kosher ingredients, it will not be considered kosher if made by a non-Jew without Jewish supervision.

The apocryphal story is that cheese was invented 6,000 years ago after an unknown Arab took a walk across the desert carrying milk for the journey in a pouch made of the stomach lining of a cow. When he arrived at his destination, the milk had coagulated, leaving him with cheese curds and whey. The stomach lining of an animal -- which contains a chemical known as rennet casein -- has been used in cheesemaking ever since, and it was for this reason that the Talmudic rabbis prohibited eating hard cheese that was not made by Jews. The rabbis feared that unless properly supervised, the rennet would come from either a non-kosher animal or an incorrectly slaughtered animal, which would make it non-kosher. Today, although many cheeses are made without animal rennet (cheesemakers use a microbial rennet instead) the prohibition against eating products of non-Jewish cheese production still stands.

Kosher cheese is thus known as gvinas Yisroel (cheese made by a Jew). There are many Orthodox Jews who use a still stricter stringency when it comes to dairy products known as cholov Yisroel (Jewish milk), which requires all milk and milk products to be supervised by a Jew from the time of milking -- again, to prevent drinking kosher milk that might have been contaminated by non-kosher milk. (Two AIF cheese lines -- Natural and Kosher and Le Chevre -- are cholov Yisroel in addition to being gvinas Yisroel.)

The kosher hard-cheese market -- as opposed to soft cheese, such as cottage cheese or cream cheese -- is valued at $50 million a year, and is increasing at a rate of 40 percent annually, according to Kosher Food Industry reports published in 2000. However, industry experts say it is unlikely that kosher cheese consumption will ever come close to mainstream cheese consumption, due to laws of kashrut dictating that consumers need to wait six hours after eating meat before they eat dairy, and many large Orthodox families are too price conscious to shell out for expensive specialty cheese items.

However, new companies like AIF face fierce competition from World Cheese, a Brooklyn-based company that experts say controls 70 percent of the kosher cheese market. World Cheese currently distributes Haolam, Migdal and Millers brand of cheese. Sholom Halpern, sales and marketing director of World Cheese said the company distributes 8,000 packets of cheese every week in California alone. Another spokesman for the company, who declined to be named, said they are unfazed by competition.

"We pride ourselves on fair pricing, and one of the reasons why many a competitor have had a hard time breaking into the market is that to undercut us they would be working at cost," he said. "And the market for kosher dairy is much smaller than you and I think."

But AIF has grown by 50 percent every year that the company has been operating, and they are planning to develop other lines of luxury cheese such as Camembert and Parmesan.

Although Goodis has no illusions about becoming the next Miller's cheese, she is confident that her cheese is good enough to win over many kosher consumers.

"We are trying to make people realize that there is good kosher cheese," she said. "There is a market for kosher specialty cheese, and it is starting to develop more and more."

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Dancing With The Stars, America Idol, Real Housewives of New Jersey, Jesse James & Three’s Company

Kate Gosselin was on the season finale of Dancing With The Stars last night.  My eyes are still bleeding, and my stomach hurts from all the laughing.  I just don’t get this chick.  In her little interview package, she was trying to appear likeable and carefree, yet all she talked about was how controversial she is.  She is ridiculous.  That she is getting another show on TLC is mind-boggling.

When she pulled off her skirt, and started lip-syncing to “I Will Survive”, I wanted to throw something at the television.  The best part of the whole thing, was her partner Tony’s face.  When she was lifted off in the cherry picker, the look of complete relief, at seeing her leave, was exactly how we all felt. Even if you allocate 15 minutes of fame for her, and each of her kids, her time is up.  Bye Bye Kate.

There was no surprise when Nicole won the title.  Of course she won people, she’s a dancer!  I think Evan was robbed, and totally should have won.  By Evan, of course I mean Erin, because let’sf ace it, Evan is also a dancer of sorts.  Erin should have won the title.  Not because she is a star, because she’s not, but because she became a dancer before our eyes.

I have not really being paying attention to American idol this season.  I watched in the beginning, but there wasn’t anyone that was riveting enough, to keep me tuned in each week.  I’m not sure who will win tonight, and don’t really care.  That said, Simon Cowell is the best part of that show, and I will miss him when he’s gone.

I will follow him to his new show, because he is good television, and I will watch the finale of American idol tonight. Not because of the singing, but because of the farewell tributes they have planned for Simon.  Paula will be there, and I’m sure it will be fabulous.  Who they choose to replace him is irrelevant, because no one can fill his shoes.

This week’s episode of the ladies of New Jersey, was not particularly interesting.  Until the last 5 minutes.  We could talk about the car wash, strip clubs, the new baby, how sad Dina is, or the gun shop in Jacqueline’s basement.  All boring, when we can talk about how Danielle thinks she is in the mafia.

She goes to her friend Danny’s house.  Danny is a convicted felon, as is his friend Johnny.  They all start talking in innuendos and code language.  She actually thinks she is a Soprano, and it’s mortifying.  Why Bravo continues to indulge her is beyond me.  This woman needs to be in a hospital, away from her kids.

Jesse James was on Nightline last night, sharing his side of the story.  I’m wondering why in the world he thinks that we care about what he has to say.  We never cared before the scandal broke, so why would we care now?  Seriously, the best thing that Jesse James can do, is stop talking.  Someone needs to tell him silence is golden.

It’s heartbreaking that he was abused by his father.  It’s sad that underneath all his tattoos and bravado, he is a scared little boy.  It’s crushing that a marriage ended, and kids are left hurting.  All of it is upsetting.  At the end of the day however, all of it is his fault, and we don’t care.  It’s over Jesse, move on, and shut up.

I think it’s time that Three’s Company was brought back to television.  If they cast Jesse James, Danielle Staub and Kelly Bensimon, they will have a hit.  Guaranteed.  The sexual tension between Kelly and Danielle will be riveting, and even more entertaining, will be that while we watch them fall in love, Jesse will be trying to bed them both.

Reality television is a monster.  We live in a time when anyone can get a television show, anyone can be famous, and everyone is at risk of having their lives fall apart, publicly.  A hundred years from now, people will look back at this time, and conclude that reality television ruined the world.  By a hundred years, of course I mean tomorrow.  Everyone who is on a reality show, needs to seriously keep the faith.

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    The chief rabbi of Lyon,  Richard Wertenschlag, has received a letter threatening to “punish a Jew for every complaint the Jews make on TV.”

    The threat came in a two-page letter delivered to Wertenschlag on Aug. 10. It contained two photos of a concentration camp, according to Dr....

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To see such dire poverty among those whose values are supposed to be the highest among us - makes you question your own values.

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I am reminded of the old joke about the child who murdered his parents and then tells the judge, ‘Please have mercy on me, I am an orphan!’

I wish I could laugh. I just watched a video (available for view at the bottom of this post) that made me as angry as I have been in a long time. It was produced by Hamodia and presented at the Agudah convention.

What it shows is the dire poverty conditions of Charedi world in Israel. Indeed watching these people as they try and live normal lives is heart wrenching. It isn’t just a few. It is apparently the vast majority of them. They are among the poorest people in the entire State of Israel. The sheer numbers of Charedi Jews in this situation makes Israel one of the poorest developed countries in the world.

The reasons for this (as stated in the video) are that the incomes of the typically large Charedi families are meager and government subsidies to Yeshivos, Kollelim, social services agencies, the poor, and to large families have been cut.

Food is virtually being taken out of the mouths of children. Merchants can no longer afford to extend credit. Basic utility bills aren’t being paid. Medical care is substandard. Children’s clothing is often used and ill fitting.

Although the women in this community work, the jobs they have often pay menial wages. The husbands who learn full time in Kollel – are paid meager stipends by their Kollelim. The combined income is nowhere near the cost of the basic necessities of life.

I don’t see how a Jewish heart cannot have mercy on what they see in this video. While there is a lot of talk and statistical information published about the dire poverty of the Kollel lifestyle, putting a face on it as this video does – makes it very real.

To see such dire poverty among those whose values are supposed to be the highest among us – makes you question your own values. They have a lifestyle of pure Torah… and this is how they are rewarded for it?! We need to sacrifice a little of our own welfare and help these people live their lives in some semblance of dignity!

So why and I so angry? Because it does not have to be this way. These people are not poor because they are disabled. They are not poor because they can’t find a job. They are poor by choice. But not really by their own choice. It is the choice of a system gone crazy which has indoctrinated them!

Every single Charedi man and woman are educated to choose this lifestyle. Men are not educated for the job market at all. They have no preparation for the workplace.. Not even a basic elementary education. The vast majority of Charedi elementary schools refuse to teach any secular subject other than basic arithmetic and Hebrew grammar. High schools teach no secular studies at all.

The Charedi goal for every student is to become proficient in Torah study. This consists primarily of Gemarah, Rishonim, Achronim and Halacha. That is almost their entire focus.

The Charedi system has succeeded in convincing their people that Torah study of this type is all that matters. The things which have always been part and parcel of the Jewish life – about which Halacha has much to say – are being virtually ignored. Like earning a livelihood and teaching your child to how to do it. Without which you are teaching him to be a criminal. (Not my words. They are Chazal’s words.)

So I can’t blame the individual Charedi Avreich for his situation . It is how he was raised. He was taught to rely on others to make ends meet, like his wife, parents, in-laws, government welfare, and simple charity.

Full time Torah study was never meant for all Jews. While we are all required to perform this most important Mitzvah, we are not supposed to abandon are responsibilities to our families. Relying on handouts from others is not the way to do that. That doesn’t mean that there should be Jews who study full time. Of course there should. We need Talmidei Chacahm as much as we need doctors, lawyers, and accountants; butchers, bakers, and plumbers.

But only the most elite scholars should be studying full time. And they should be fully supported. There ought not to be any impoverished Torah scholar. They are required for our spiritual health. Without them Judaism would not properly be perpetuated.

But for the rest of us, we should be working. Torah study should be done by establishing fixed time for it. Times that do not interfere with our jobs and our responsibilities to our families. And Torah leaders should be encouraging them to do so. Including requiring studies in their curriculum to that end. If they had been doing this all along, this video could not have been made.

There are those who say that even if all the Avreichim were suddenly capable of doing the kinds of jobs that pay decent wages, there still wouldn’t be enough jobs in Israel to go around and the poverty situation of Charedim would not be significantly altered.

That may be true. But had they been properly educated and prepared for those jobs, the vast majority of them would be working at good jobs in similar percentages to their Dati and secular counterparts. And helping to support the elite scholars so that they could dedicate their lives fully to Torah study.

Which is why it is so important to change the Charedi paradigm of full time Torah study as the ultimate goal for everyone.

There must be accountability for the poverty. And it isn’t the government. They can no longer support Avreichim at former levels. Charedim are growing by leaps and bounds and instead of contributing to the tax base, are accelerating the depletion of it.

First let me reiterate that starving these people into change is the wrong thing to do. If you can afford to help these people survive, you ought to do it. But if nothing else this video should strengthen our resolve to support government initiatives to require a core curriculum in Charedi schools.

The condition of poverty must not be allowed to stand. The fact is that it won’t be able to anyway if the current trend continues. Even if all of us send them as much financial help as we can. Their population increase will outpace our ability to help provide for their needs. And the Israeli government will certainly not return to the former level of financial support because they can’t afford it. It will bankrupt them.

I therefore propose that any help given to these poor Avreichim – be given directly to them. They should not God forbid be allowed to starve. But not a penny should be given to any system that perpetuates that poverty by refusing to help prepare them for the workforce. And then blaming others for the poverty that results.

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  1. Values = wealth? Really?

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Debating America’s Response To The Holocaust With The U.S. Holocaust Museum

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During a recent trip to Rwanda, former president Bill Clinton lamented his failure in 1994 to intervene in that country’s genocidal massacres. “I don’t think we could have ended the violence, but I think we could have cut it down. And I regret it.”

Clinton, perhaps in atonement, has helped raise money to build the Kilgali Genocide Memorial Center.

Clinton’s hindsight regret is relevant to a debate I recently had with another genocide memorial institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The debate concerned my book about the epic battle in 1943 between the Treasury and State departments over a plan by the World Jewish Congress to rescue tens of thousands of Romanian Jews trapped in the hellish land of Transnistria in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

The patrician diplomats in the State Department blocked the rescue while the middle class lawyers in the Treasury Department (all Christians) fought for it. The battle led directly to the formation of the War Refugee Board in early 1944, which is credited with rescuing 200,000 Jews, including surviving Transnistrian Jews.

In a critique, the museum’s historians disputed my book’s criticism of the State Department. Ordinarily, authors don’t direct readers to a negative review but because this one was so heavily dependent on a hindsight analysis to justify a failure to rescue (the opposite of President Clinton’s hindsight regrets), that is just what I am doing.

Now, the museum’s website displays remarks by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the 2012 National Day of Remembrance ceremony in Washington. He described how “State Department officials were systematically undermining efforts to save Jews in Europe” including in Transnistria, and “blocking the spread of information about the Holocaust.”

Without contesting these facts, the museum’s critique argued that the rescue would never have succeeded because, at least based on more recent information about “machinations” in Europe, the “Germans were stringing the Allies along . . .without any intention of freeing the Jews.”

Further, “the overwhelming majority of Jews who died in Transnistria were already dead” by the time rescue was proposed; there were limited “available resources,” such as ships, with which to transport the Jews from Transnistria; and an “evacuation by sea” would have exposed “Jews who would survive the war to lethal danger from German or Soviet submarines in the Black Sea.”

My response was that when the War Refugee Board finally was established, its agents overcame German resistance and rescued more than 50,000 surviving Transnistrian Jews. Enough shipping was available because the Board, as Secretary Geithner pointed out, “helped purchase boats to ferry thousands of refugees out of Romania.”

Jews, warned of the risks in advance, were ready to board any ship to get out of Transnistria (or anywhere else in the hell that was occupied Europe). Not all of the “Jews who would die” were already dead. At least 7,500 more died in 1943 during the Cabinet battle over rescue and the survivors endured much suffering. When Jewish orphans finally were rescued, they raised their hands to protect their faces as if expecting beatings.

The museum’s historians are well-credentialed scholars dedicated to Holocaust studies. But, as I argued, their hindsight analysis was flawed because the necessity of rescuing Jews from the Holocaust was not a sliding scale that rose or fell on a Jew’s odds of survival, even if such odds could have been calculated then. Nor should the difficulty of rescue have relieved the State Department of its humanitarian obligations, an inherent implication of the historians’ analysis.

That’s why the museum’s critique sounded eerily like the State Department’s do-nothing arguments in 1943 at one meeting with a Treasury lawyer that “It would be probably be impossible to work out satisfactory arrangements with the Romanian authorities. German consent would not be forthcoming. The Turkish government has refused entry to Jewish refugees.”

In the final analysis, no humanitarian intervention would ever be undertaken if it required proof in advance that, absent rescue, the victims will die (or, at least, more than 7,500 will perish), deems suffering short of death irrelevant, and requires an absence of risk and certainty of success. Of course, those conditions never existed in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Treasury lawyers battled the State Department over rescue because they understood that, since both lives and core American values (if not American honor) were at stake, no matter the obstacles, this country had to at least try to rescue Jewish victims of genocide.

About the Author: Gregory J. Wallance is a lawyer and writer in New York City and the author of “America's Soul In The Balance: The Holocaust, FDR's State Department And The Moral Disgrace Of An American Aristocracy.” He is currently working on a book about three women spies in World War I, one of whom is Sarah Aaronsohn.

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  1. Wallace should know over 30 million American Indian were killed in N. America. As late as 1865 still being shot in the back? What's 7,500 Jews? In any case, dates are important when discussing who knew what when. I doubt this is earlier than when Thomas Mann went negative on Nazi Germany.

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3000 Palestinian Authority soldiers/policemen are set to go to Gaza, and serve together with their Hamas compatriots, according to a report in Ma’an News.

These 3000 soldiers previously served in Gaza, until Hamas violently took over killing the Palestinian Authority competition, at which point these soldiers/police escaped to the Palestinian Authority.

With the new peace deal between the PA and Hamas, these US trained soldiers, will now begin serving with Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas is currently designated a terrorist group by the United States.

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43 Responses to “3000 US-Trained PA Officers to Serve Hamas in Gaza”

  1. Why do we always train and arm the wrong side?

  2. Maybe they will kill each other.Like who really gives a s–t?

  3. American always train the wrong people and it bites them in the ass

  4. I don’t understand

  5. In celebration of the Palestinian reconciliation the Pope, or even Left leaning Jews, J Street, etc. might consider a gift to Palestinians commemorating Palestinians in the same way that the French gave America a gift on October 28 , 1886 commemorating America.

    Pope Francis’ Holy Land visit: The Itinerary

    In his trip to Jordan, West Bank and Israel between May 24-26, Pope Francis will visit sites important to Christians, Jews and Muslims alike.

    Pope Francis should invite world leaders , especially Palestinian leaders, to Rome. It would be a great day to see President Abbas and leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, together in Rome now that they have made an alliance. The itinerary would be very interesting and worth while.

    The first stop would be in memory of the origins of “Palestine”!

    Ismail Haniyeh, Abbas and Pope Francis could walk peacefully arm in arm long the Via Sacra( sacred road) on their way to the Roman Triumphal Arch- formally called the Arch of Titus and they could kneel down to the foundations of the Palestinian people in prayer.

    It would be so touching and bring tears to millions of “Palestinians” around the world. The heart wrenching story of the beginnings of the Palestinians !

    The Arch of Titus is a Roman Triumphal Arch which was erected by Domitian in c. 81 CE at the foot of the Palatine hill on the Via Sacra in the Forum Romanum, Rome. It commemorates the victories of his father Vespasian and brother Titus in the Jewish War in Judaea (70-71 CE) when the great city of Jerusalem was sacked and the vast riches of its temple plundered.

    They could revel in memory of the booty of Judean riches taken from Jerusalem, including a seven-branched candelabra (menorah), silver trumpets, and perhaps even the Ark of the Covenant itself.

    One must ask why “Palestinians ” themselves have not commemorated the Romans and the Victory Arch by building one of their own – a copy- in Ramallah or Gaza where Palestinians could stand and pray to their history? Maybe Pope Francis could give Palestinians a gift from the Vatican in the same way that France gave Americans La Liberté éclairant le monde- better known as the The Statue of Liberty – Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

    May be one day!

  6. Why would the US keep making doing thinks that are not smart! You have Russia taking over land and going after Jews in Europe and the us does nothing. I feel sorry for the us because we are acting so foolish.

  7. Why would the US keep making doing thinks that are not smart! You have Russia taking over land and going after Jews in Europe and the us does nothing. I feel sorry for the us because we are acting so foolish.

  8. Deb Fein says:

    This is a disgrace on the part of the U.S.

  9. Marie Paul Jones says:

    God wI'll indeed have the final say in this matter! It make my spirit so sad. I can only imagine how GodGod feels.

  10. Super STOP muslims

  11. Lloyd Bergner says:

    This was predictable and likely intentional. Eretz Yisrael does not stand alone …The hand of Hashem is with us..Am Yisrael Chai

  12. Shua Doodlebug Epstein says:

    thanks to the american jews who voted for obama

  13. denounce these terrorists

  14. Do not despair. Israel is better trained than the US on every level and capacity.

  15. Who got doubts about this situation is a fool, that means the Israeli government and most of the world.

  16. Yes, the chickens HAVE come home to roost… US trained terrorists now aiming their guns at the IDF … Thanks Presidents Bush and Obomarama. One more hoop for the IDF to train for.

  17. Earl W. Littlefield Jr says:

    The US armed & trained terrorists to overthrow the governments of Egypt, Libya, Syria and many other countries that had treaties with the US. Why should Israel be surprised that the US also trained (& continues to train) terrorists to overthrow the Israeli government???? Trust Obama and his administration at your own fatal risk……

  18. Yechiel Baum says:

    Hence, the US army should be arrested for training the Hamas which is against the law. As such, Kerry and Obama should be in the same jail cell as Pollard and to release Pollard. Pollard is our Nelson Mandella!

  19. Alan Kardon says:

    Thank you Barack Hussein for making Israel less safe.

  20. Alan Kardon says:

    When you get the facts what are you going to do about it?

  21. Obama and cronies always arming and training the wrong side….UMMM??? Is there any right side in the Middle East???….ACCEPT ISRAEL!!! GOD WILL HAVE THE FINAL SAY AND SAVE ISRAEL…IT IS WRITTEN!!! HE WILL curse those who curses Israel. Israel belongs to GOD….Jewish people belong to GOD.

  22. Chaiya Eitan says:

    Is this in order to start the intifada that Kerry's official threatened us with?

  23. We trained the Mexican cartel killers. It's a fact that was proved and reported a long time ago. We've done nothing about it. Your calling for "proof" and using the term "false flag" indicates you would question anything presented to you.

    The term "false flag" has been used ad nauseam and almost exclusively by anti-Israel bloggers.

  24. Hamas? I want to puke…

  25. 3000 more guns pointing at Israelis. Is that the best you can do Mr. kerry? Do you realy want peace…

  26. Very likely, I would think. One never knows what the US is up to. We see & experience US lies and deceit repeatedly, yet they are still called "The greatest democracy in the world." The "greatest democracy in the world" training Hamas forces? Something so, so wrong there.

  27. I don't know why "University of Cape Town" appears next to my name. I am NOT at UCT.

  28. Roldan Fz says:

    How many Jews will be voting for Hilliary 2016?

  29. Matthew Lemons says:

    Thanks a hell of a lot Obama/Bush/Clinton/Bush

  30. Alan Kardon says:

    One is to many.

  31. Alan Kardon says:

    Don't forget the terrorist he asked to have released as well.

  32. Run Guo says:

    Last thing Israeli should prepare is peace. And I hate to see this fact.

  33. Matthew Lemons says:

    @Jackie Rozell a need for proof is always a good idea. Consider if I were to say charge you with murder. Is everyone going to just take my word for it? Of course not. That would be dumb. And so would anticipating that just because someone says that the PA is sending in US trained people would also not be a smart thing to do. The PA has no love for the US and has gone out of its way to harass us and celebrate when the US was attacked on 9-11-01. Think about it. The best thing to do is to everyone calm down and look at facts if there are any before everyone is flipped out and wigged out. I reminded MessianicBookstore Trustee about the Spanish American war where a boiler explosion on the battleship Maine was reported as an act of war against the US in the Cuban harbor caused a war. A media magnate Hurst published that the Maine was attacked by the Spanish Navy and sank it. Well that wasn't true. And everyone back home believed it. We went to war without cause because it was reported that we were attacked. In those days boiler explosions were common as they didn't have safety valves when pressure built up to dangerous levels. So instead of everyone here building to dangerous levels I suspect we'd all better just calm down and check this out before we all blow a gasket.

  34. Alan Kardon says:

    MessianicBookstore Trustee You are not answering the question. You made a statement but are not responding what will you do if proven true?

  35. Go to YouTube and look up The Project from the Blaze. It will explain everything. May God be with us all.

  36. Alan Kardon says:

    MessianicBookstore Trustee I will give you nothing. You are a fraud. You proved it with your answers "Buddy".

  37. Michael Scher says:

    Wow – radicals everywhere. its kind of scary.

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Leviticus 19:16

You should not go tell tales among the people, neither should you stand aside while evil befalls your friend, I am the Lord, your God.

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You should not stand aside while evil befalls your friend (Leviticus 19:16): We have already stated that withholding testimony falls under the rubric of this injunction, since the individual sees the money of his friend being lost, and he is able to recover it for him through the telling over of the truth. [Thus, withholding testimony is a transgression] as it says, If he doesn't tell, and brings transgression upon himself (Leviticus 5:1). And in the language of the Sifra: "From where do we know that if a person knows testimony, that he is not allowed to stay silent? From the Torah in which it is written, You should not stand aside while evil befalls your friend (Leviticus 19:16)."

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1. What are the two different parts of the verse telling us? Why do you think that they were put into the same verse?

2. How does Maimonides understand the second part of the verse? How does this affect the way that the verse is understood?

Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 113b

Three types of people God Hates:

One who speaks one thing with his mouth and another in his heart.

One who knows testimony for his friend but does not testify for him.

One who testifies alone that he saw his friend engage in illicit sexual relationships.

Tuviah sinned and Zigud came alone and testified before Rav Papa [whereupon] Rav Papa had Zigud punished. Zigud exclaimed, "Tuviah sinned and Zigud is punished!?" Rav Papa answered back, "Yes because it is written, One witness should not rise up against a man (Deuteronomy 19:15). Since you testified against him alone, you have only succeeded in bringing him into ill repute."

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1. Why do you think that God hates these three different types of people? Do you think that they deserve God's hatred?

2. What does the story of Zigud and Tuviah tell us about why a person who testifies alone in court cases concerning illicit sexual relationships deserves God's hatred?

3. Can you find a parallel between the verse in Leviticus and the different things that God hates? What kinds of tensions between a responsibility to tell and responsibility to keep silent come out of both the verse in Leviticus and the passage in the Babylonian Talmud?

4. If you were writing laws for when a person must speak up, and when a person must keep silent, how would you resolve these tensions?

Chafetz Chaim, Laws of Slander, Rule 10

Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen was a rabbinic master who lived at the turn of the century. He was known by the moniker, the Chafetz Chaim, after the title of his classic volume which dealt definitively with the laws of permitted and forbidden speech.

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If Karra sees Jason doing a despicable act against Laura: For example Jason is stealing from, oppressing, vandalizing, embarrassing, or causing pain and suffering to Laura, whether Laura knows about it or not, and Karra is sure that she can't turn Jason from, or that Jason won't make up for, his actions, then Karra, even if she alone witnessed Jason's actions, is allowed to tell others in order to help Laura, and in order to erase these evil deeds from the midst of humanity. But Karra must be careful to observe these seven qualifications:

1. Karra must have seen Jason's actions firsthand, and not have come into knowledge of them through hearsay, or Karra must investigate the matter to carefully verify the truth behind the rumors.

2. Karra must be careful not to rashly label Jason's actions as "robbery" or "vandalization," but must carefully investigate the matter in order to determine whether Jason's actions are indeed to be considered "robbery" or "vandalization" according to the letter of the law.

3. Karra must admonish Jason in a gentle tone because maybe she could turn him away from his evil ways. However, if Jason refuses to listen, then Karra should publicly reveal Jason's actions and what he intends to do to Laura.

4. Karra must be careful, in telling over the matter, not to inflate Jason's actions more than they really are.

5. Karra must tell over the matter in good faith, and not in order to derive enjoyment from destroying Jason through the revelation, or out of personal hatred for him.

6. If Karra is able to thwart Jason's actions through some other method, (Karra doesn't really need to accomplish this by slandering Jason) then she is forbidden to tell.

7. Karra should not cause more damage to Jason through her telling than she would have if she had testified in court.

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1. How does the Chafetz Chaim resolve the tensions within the verse from Leviticus and within the passage from the Talmud? Would you have resolved them the same way?

2. What factors does the Chafetz Chaim include in his laws of slander that didn't come out of the verse in Leviticus or the passage in the Babylonian Talmud? Do you also find these factors important?

3. Do these laws have any relevance to you? When?

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2. Summary: Jerusalem Mayor Kollek discussed with Secretary Shultz some of the unique problems of Jerusalem and his efforts to deal with them. He said he accepted U.S. policy which stated that the future of Jerusalem was still to be determined but said that in the meantime he was responsible for the city and had to make strenuous efforts to assure that all the disparate elements in Jerusalem were able to live their lives without interference from others and without imposing their own ideas on the other communities. He stressed that reunified Jerusalem has not seen any large scale Arab-Jewish clashes, that his administration had improved services in the Arab section, rebuilt many of the historic sites that had been long neglected and made extensive efforts to accommodate the peculiar needs and desires of the Arab residents of the city. Mayor Kollek praised the Consulate General's practice of holding a single national day celebration attended by both Jews and Arabs, contrasting it with the practice of other countries which hold separate ethnic receptions. He made a general plea for more aid directed to the Occupied Territories to be spent among the Arabs in East Jerusalem, but made no specific request for the U.S. to fund any particular projects. He described his plan for devolving government power to local neighborhood councils and said that steady progress was being made in this area despite the opposition of some Israelis who portrayed this move as a redivision of the city. Mayor Kollek expressed the hope that the Secretary could return for a longer visit to Jerusalem and the Secretary said he looked forward to seeing the Mayor in the future. End Summary.

Unique City Needs Unique Answers

3. Secretary Shultz called on Jerusalem Mayor Kollek in his City Hall office on the afternoon of October 18. During the one-half hour meeting, Mayor Kollek discussed the unique nature of the city and detailed some of his efforts to deal with the problems brought about by the presence of so many different communities in the same city. He stressed throughout that his municipality had gone to great lengths to accommodate the wishes of the different communities and to keep any one community from imposing its will on the others.

4. The Mayor began the meeting by saying that he accepts U.S. policy regarding Jerusalem, adding that he of course had no choice but to accept our view that the city must remain unified but that its final status is still to be determined. He even noted that former Secretary of State Vance had said that a solution to the problem of Jerusalem could possibly be separated from negotiations over the future of the West Bank and Gaza. The Mayor noted that while he did accept this situation, for the time being the situation in Jerusalem was dependent on the Israeli government.

Keeping Variety While Reducing Friction

5. Mayor Kollek said that his top priority was an effort to eliminate points of friction. He pointed out that Jerusalem is home to Jews who have come from one hundred three cultures, to Christians owing allegiance to forty different denominations, and was characterized by traditional communities such as the Greeks and the Armenians who had adhered to their own language and religious traditions since the early centuries of the Christian era. One result of all this diversity is that of the one hundred sixty thousand children in Jerusalem schools, thirty thousand attend non-municipal, private schools. The secretary asked whether people went to private schools for a better education or for other reasons. The Mayor replied that there were many schools, particularly some Christian schools which had long traditions of excellence associated with them, but that many other students attended private schools for religious reasons such as those going to ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools, and that some attended Arab schools because of the shortage of classrooms in municipal schools. He said that due to the shortage of classrooms, only twenty-thousand Arabs studied in the city schools and many attended schools funded by the Jordanian/PLO Joint Committee.

Quiet Has Reigned, Despite Expectations

6. Mayor Kollek said that when the city was reunified in 1967, there were those who claimed there would be daily clashes between the Jewish and Arab communities. However, the reality was that there were absolutely no such clashes until November 1986. At that time a Jewish student was murdered in the Old City and violence ensued but even in that case, the clashes were not severe, there were no burnings of houses or of businesses and no one was killed save the Jewish student whose death caused the backlash. The Mayor said that there had been terrorist attacks over the years but that these were the work of individuals and except for the above mentioned case had not resulted in backlashes.

7. The Mayor said that Jerusalem is a quiet city and that he has worked to keep it that way. He regretted the fact that a baseless story in a Hebrew paper recently sparked some confrontations on the Temple Mount, but added that once the municipality had explained to the Moslem authorities that the GOI announcement of 1967 that there would be no change in the status quo of the Holy Places, was still valid. He said the Moslem leaders believed him and said they would calm their community down on the condition that no one be told that there had been a meeting with the Mayor. Kollek said he was willing to go along with their desire not to be seen as complying with a request from the municipality.

8. The Mayor noted that Palestinian nationalism was exhibited in greatly increased attendance at prayer services on the Temple Mount. Whereas a typical Friday prayer service at the al-Aqsa Mosque drew ten thousand in 1967, crowds of fifty thousand to sixty thousand go to the Mosque on a normal Friday at the present time. The Mayor also noted that over one hundred thousand Moslems resident in countries technically at war with Israel visit the Moslem Holy Places in Jerusalem each year. He added that over six hundred thousand Christian pilgrims visit Jerusalem each year and said that his municipality had significantly improved the physical infrastructure in and around the sites, many of which had been neglected for many years, going to great lengths to be accommodating.

9. The need to improve services to East Jerusalem in order to bring them up to the level of those existing in West Jerusalem was also a daunting task. Kollek said that only ten per cent of houses in East Jerusalem had running water in 1967 and although he had not succeeded in bringing services on the east side up to the level in the west, his municipality had made many great strides. He cited the Arab Health Center in East Jerusalem as a particular example of the lengths to which the municipality had gone to accommodate Arabs. The Center's entire staff is Arab and has male nurses for male patients and female nurses for female patients. The Center presently receives seven hundred patients per day and is expected to expand to one thousand per day as soon as new offices are opened. Eventually, a day hospital will open on the site which should increase the number of patients to fifteen hundred per day.

10. Other examples of the length gone to accommodate Arab sensitivities were the fact that Jordanian citizens were allowed to vote for the Municipal Council, Arab municipal schools were allowed to retain the Jordanian Curriculum (with the addition of Hebrew and Civics), and that the high school examination given to Arab students was the one accepted by Arab countries rather than that accepted by Israeli universities. The proof of the success of these policies was that the Arab population of Jerusalem doubled (from 65,000 to 130,000) since 1967. From 1948 to 1967 the population had stayed stagnant at 65,000.

11. Kollek said that the special status of Jerusalem necessitated some kind of constitution or other special arrangement for the city. Secretary Shultz said that he understood the Mayor's concerns and noted that he had heard the Mayor describe the city in 1967 as a mosaic, i.e., it is a picture that can look very beautiful, but that the individual elements within it do not merge into one another but remain fully distinct and independent.

Decentralization: The Borough Plan

12. The Mayor then described his attempts to implement a borough plan in Jerusalem over the objections of many in the federal government who characterized his efforts as an attempt to redivide the city. He said that he had started devolving municipal authority to local councils in nine neighborhoods, six Jewish and three Arab. In the next few weeks he said another Arab local council would be set up. The Secretary asked what kind of power had been given to these local groups. Kollek said that the groups were given town planners for three days per week to help them decide what they wanted to do in terms of physical planning, and that the groups exercised significant influence over schools and cultural institutions in their areas. He said the groups also can have authority over cleaning streets, maintaining gardens and parks and administering community centers. Sometimes they also participate in financing large scale projects. As one example, he said that one Arab Council needed a sewage system which would cost U.S. dollars 300,000. As the municipality had only U.S. dollars 120-150,000 the group was advised to raise the rest. The group obtained the money from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Kollek said that while it was an exception for Arab countries to give financial assistance in East Jerusalem, all of the local councils which have been set up had the prior approval of the Jordanian government.

13. The Mayor expressed hope that more foreign countries including the United States, would spend some of their money earmarked for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem. He complained that most countries, including the U.S. excluded the 130,000 Arabs in East Jerusalem from their development plans. He said that he had discussed this matter with Consul General Draper but made no specific request for the U.S. to fund any particular project at this time.

Appreciation for Bridge-Building

14. The Mayor thanked the Secretary for the fact that the Consulate General in Jerusalem holds only one independent celebration to which both Jews and Arabs are invited. He contrasted the stand with that of the other consulates in Jerusalem which insist on having two separate parties. He said he was gratified that the United States had changed its policy several years ago and also expressed appreciation for the other efforts that Consul General Draper has made to bring Jews and Arabs together.

15.As a final note, the Mayor expressed his hope that the Secretary would return to Jerusalem for a longer visit, during which the Mayor would be able to show him more of the city. The Secretary also noted that Mayor Kollek would be in the United States soon and invited him to come and see him.

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KEMPINSKY, AHARON (1939–1994), Israeli archaeologist. Brought up in Nahariyyah, Kempinsky participated as a teenager in 1952–53 in P. *Delougaz's excavations at Bet Yeraḥ. His academic studies were undertaken at the Hebrew University and it was there that he acquired his M.A. and eventually his Ph.D. In time he became a professor of archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, and taught at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba as well. As a student at the Hebrew University, Kempinsky worked as Professor Nahman *Avigad's assistant at Makhmish. Many archaeological excavations followed, some of which he directed, at Palmaḥ im (1961), Hazor (1965–66), Megiddo (1965), and Bet ha-Emek (1973). In 1972–75, and again in 1979, Kempinsky (with V. Fritz) uncovered an important early Iron Age village at Tel Masos, not far from Beersheba. In 1975 Kempinsky made a short excavation at Tel Kabri, which was followed by an intensive project there (conducted together with W.D. Niemeyer) from 1986 to 1993. At Kabri a Middle Bronze Age building (perhaps a palace) was exposed, with wall and floor paintings resembling those from Thera (Santorini). Kempinsky was an insatiable reader with an encyclopedic mind; he also traveled all over the world and was a visiting scholar at various universities and colleges, notably at Tuebingen University in 1975. Kempinsky was a prolific writer and wrote many research papers on a diverse number of subjects. Important publications include The Architecture of Ancient Israel from the Prehistoric to the Persian Periods, which he co-edited with Ronny Reich, and the final reports on the Tel Masos and Kabri excavations. Kempinsky was a mentor for many of the younger generation of archaeologists in Israel.

C. Dauphin, "Aharon Kempinsky (1939–1994), Friend and Colleague: An Evocation," in: Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society, 13 (1993–94), 63–66.

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Last night I was at a fundraiser event and I asked a board member of the orginazation “what is your biggest board challenge?”

She said “raising money.

I knew that was the problem because that is what all non-profit organizations are challenged with.  I asked what I was more interested in:  ”What is the next greatest problem?

I had no idea how she would answer, but her answer made sense.  (see her answer below, upside-down).

As I asked questions, and the right questions, I found out what her problems were.

You know what?  Problems = Opportunities.

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Problem solvers bring value.

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Here’s a thought for today: What is the biggest problem you are facing?

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Garvan Gardens 2012

I know I am so behind on my blogging and I need to catch up, with Christmas and the past few months, but I don’t feel like blogging about that now, so I’m going to share what we have done this week for spring break and maybe I will get back in my blogging groove!

On Tuesday I took my kids and Adabelle and Oscar to Garvan Gardens with Grandma DeVaux. We go to GG every spring break with my mom. The kids always look forward to it. They were all excited to do the scavenger hunt.

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We headed to the Koi pond first. They didn’t have any fish food for us so the kids just threw grass at the fish.

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Three pretty girls

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The tulips were in full bloom. They were gorgeous this year!

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Me and my cute kids

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The kids all love Grandma! Next we headed to the Kids area.

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We had to check out the peacocks. This one was showing off for us.

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Averi loves being with Grandma DeVaux

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Adabelle & Oscar

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Averi loved smelling the tulips

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Everyone was worn out! We went back to Grandma’s for burgers and hot dogs. Then Thomas, Kaylee and Matthew got to spend the night there. Grandpa DeVaux took them to Mid America Museum the next morning. It was a nice break for me and the kids had a blast!

Andrea said...

Looks like fun. So sad we missed it this year. It looks warm. It is snowing here today.

Melanie said...

Wow, what cute kids! They are growing up!!! Glad you had such a great time. Loved the pics...

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What a fun place! I love the tulips and your little cuties!

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The purity of gold is measured in karats. Twenty-four karat gold is pure gold and k karat gold is k/24 gold by mass. One piece of 16-karat gold jewelry has a mass of 30 grams and another piece of 10-karat gold jewelry has a mass of 40 grams. Find the number of grams in the positive difference between the amount of pure gold in each piece of jewelry. Express your answer as a mixed number.

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