Inflammatory

The goal of this blog is to turn extrospection into introspection at your Shabbat table.... please print and share.

The image to the left is Joseph's Tomb, set ablaze by a mob last night.

Here is a little background.

In 1867, Mark Twain wrote:

"About a mile and a half from Shechem we halted at the base of Mount Ebal before a little square area, inclosed by a high stone wall, neatly whitewashed. Across one end of this inclosure is a tomb…. It is the tomb of Joseph. No truth is better authenticated than this....Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of diverse creeds as that of Joseph. Samaritan and Jew, and Christian alike, revere it, and honour it with their visits. The tomb of Joseph, the dutiful son, the affectionate, forgiving brother, the virtuous man, the wise Prince and ruler. Egypt felt his influence--the world knows his history."

For Allasake, there is an entire sura in the Koran devoted to him (#12: "Joseph - Peace Be Upon Him").

So how has it come to this?

There are so many answers!

1. The Moslem preacher's answer:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5098.htm

2. The US government's answer:
Mr. Obama's true feelings.
Mr. Obama's "clarified" feelings.

3. The Stanford professor's answer:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-palumboliu/whats-behind-the-explosio_b_8298362.html

4. The American Anthropology Association's answer (make sure you read the comments):
http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2015/09/22/two-views-on-anthropologists-and-boycotts/

5. Hadassah Hospital's answer:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/terrorist-teen-executed-by-israel-confesses-to-attack/

6. The New York Times' answer (and a YU professor's critique of it):
http://www.jta.org/2015/10/13/news-opinion/opinion/op-ed-the-new-york-times-big-lie-about-the-temple-mount

7. The European press's answer:
http://www.jta.org/2015/10/13/news-opinion/world/in-european-coverage-of-israel-confusion-over-who-is-attacking-whom

Two weeks ago the question was, "When does life begin?" Last week the answer was: Now and the question was, How?

This week the question for your table is: 

8. What's the Jewish answer?

Shabbat Shalom

PS - Hint #1 - www.aish.com/jw/id/The-Solution-to-Israels-Wave-of-Terror.html
PPS - Hint #2 - www.youcaring.com/children-of-rabbi-eitam-and-naama-henkin-h-yd-450838
PPPS - Hint #3 - www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-ideas
PPPPS - Hint #4 - www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578194547?ie=UTF8&tag=j099-20

PPPPPS - Hint #5 - www.learntorah.com or www.webyeshiva.org or jsli.org/recommended-readings 

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J'Accuse...!

For an English translation, click here.

J'Accuse...!
LETTRE AU PEUPLE FRANÇAIS

J'accuse le peuple français.

Je leur accuse de tolérance. Je leur accuse de liberté, de fraternité, de l'égalité.

Vous avez pratiqué la tolérance et de la fraternité même avant la révolution française, lorsque votre premier fils, M. Lumières - c'est-à-dire Voltaire - a écrit que les Juifs sont "un peuple ignorant et barbare, qui pendant longtemps ont rejoint l'avarice la plus sordide à la superstition la plus détestable." Peut-être votre professeur de lycée a oublié de mentionner cette facette de l'illumination de Voltaire pendant que vous luttez par Candide et Micromegas?

Oui, il est vrai: François-Marie Arouet a donné à la haine du Juif un air de sophistication, un nettoyage moderne, une respectabilité.

Il a dû se sentir si bon de se débarrasser de ce roi et son ancien régime, et de le remplacer par le nouvel empereur de cette nouvelle illumination. Le jour de gloire est arrivé. Napoléon se est avéré que la France peut tolérer ses Juifs, tant qu'ils ne restent pas trop juive. Ou peut-être votre livre d'histoire omis la partie sur le "Grand Sanhédrin" de Napoléon? Il venait juste d'être convivial pour les Juifs, non?

Non; en privé il nous a appelés "les plus méprisables de l'humanité". Mais en public il nous a toléré.

Est-ce que vous enseignez l'affaire Dreyfus à tous vos enfants? Cela n'est pas un trés bonne idée parçe que il peut-être pourrait donner à la France une atmosphère d'intolérance, n'est-pas?

Ne oublions pas que le peuple français a aidé et encouragé l'Allemagne à nettoyer la France de ses Juifs. Il était peut-être un peu désagréable à coopérer avec l'enimé détesté, mais votre culture de la tolérance vous a permis de tolérer cette chose désagrément pour le plaisir de le plus grand bien.

Bien sûr, les Français sont excellents à au moins une expression de l'intolérance: contre la tentative du peuple juif de vivre en paix dans leur patrie.

La France n'a pas bronché lorsque votre diiplomat Daniel Bernard a dit que "Toutes les troubles actuels dans le monde sont à cause de ce petit pays de merde Israël. Pourquoi le monde en danger d'une troisième guerre mondiale à cause de ces gens?" En fait, votre gouvernement et la presse tous ralliés à sa défense.

Et vous, le peuple français, êtes si tolérant que vous avez pleuré "injustice" quand un rabbin et trois enfants ont été assassinés de sang-froid devant leur école juive, mais vous ne voulez pas dire que ce ne avait rien à voir avec l'islam!

Combien de personnes français peut dire quand et où cela se est passé? Combien peuvent nommer le rabbin et les trois enfants? Sûrement pas beaucoup, parce que de s'attarder sûr ces choses peut s'apparaître intolérant de la minorité musulmane de France.

Ilan Halimi, 1982-2006

Vous, o peuple français, êtes si tolérants que la femme maléfique qui piégé Ilan Halimi a été libéré de prison après seulement quelques ans.

Celui est presque incroyable. Pouvez-vous vraiment tolérer une telle injustice?

O peuple français, je voudrais tempérer légèrement mes mots.

Avouons que ces problèmes de tolérance déplacée sont pas uniquement français. Ils sont vraiment européenne. Prenez par exemple le refus des Jeux olympiques de Londres de donner un hommage moment d'silence pour les athlètes israéliens assassinés à Munich. Pourquoi ont-ils refusé? Prétendument parce qu'il serait «gâter l'esprit» des Jeux. Peu importe que pendant les Jeux de 2002 un moment de silence a été accordée aux victimes des attentats du 11 septembre. Peu importe que lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010 à Vancouver, une dédicace a été joué à un concurrent qui est mort dans un accident de la formation. Peu importe que les Jeux de Londres se comprenait un mémoire élaboré aux victimes des attaques terroristes de 2005 à Londres.

Ce ne est pas seulement en France que le sang juif est moins rouge. Ce est toute l'Europe que le message de l'Islam de haïr les Juifs (oui, lire le Coran, je ai dit la haine) est tolérée.

Il n'y a que deux solutions à tous de cette tolérance et de fraternité:

1. Cesser de tolérer l'islam radical, et devenir intolérante de lui. Vocalement et avec véhémence et sans ambiguïté et sans équivoque répudier l'islam radical. Pas seulement en France, mais partout, y inclus á Gaza, au Lebanon et á quelle location que il se trouve. Votre intolérance doit pas se arrêter avec les islamistes vérifiables, mais doit également inclure les coquins comme Dieudonné et Louis. Donnez-leur ce grand, emphatique, sans ambiguïté, "Non!" des Français.

Vous - oui, vous! - permis à la police française à fermer la Grande Synagogue de Paris vendredi soir dernier, ainsi que d'autres synagogues. Pour la première fois depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale!

Pourquoi vous ne avez pas été là vendredi soir dernier - des centaines de vous - non, des milliers de vous - en insistant que les Juifs devraient prier dans votre sécurité; insistant que vous - oui, vous, avec votre propre corps - souhaitez monter la garde pour eux et assurer leur sécurité? Est l'assassiner des Juifs moins méprisable que l'assassiner des caricaturistes?

Ainsi, non seulement les bêtes assassinent quatre Juifs, ils ont également conservés Juifs de leurs prières. Non! de leur communauté! Pouvez-vous tolérer cela? Est-ce que ça va?

2. Cesser de tolérer les Juifs, et commencer á les embrasser. Le tolérance n'est pas suffisant. Aimez-les, embrassez-les, portez une étoile de David pour montrer votre solidarité avec eux. Comment ça se fait que vous venez aux rues dans les millions pour Charlie Hebdo, mais pas pour le rabbin et les trois enfants qui ont été abattus à l'école? Quel genre de message cela double norme envoyer aux Juifs français?  

Soyez comme les Danois et les Italiens pendant la Seconde Guerre qui a montré au monde que lors des l'on embrasse ses compatriots Juifs, que les antisémites n'ont aucun pouvoir. Donnez-les un sourire, dînez dans leurs restaurants, magasinez dans leurs magasins et faites-leur savoir que vous êtes d'accord avec les paroles de John Adams, Mark Twain et Martin Luther King:

Adams:

Les Hébreux ont fait plus de civiliser les hommes que les autres nations. Si je étais athée et croyant au destin éternel aveugle, je crois toujours que le destin avait ordonné aux Juifs de l'instrument le plus essentiel pour civiliser les nations. Si je étais un athée d'une autre secte, qui a cru ou feint de croire que tout est ordonné par hasard, je crois toujours que le hasard avait ordonné aux Juifs de préserver et propager à toute l'humanité la doctrine d'un suprême, intelligent, puissant souverain sage de l'univers, que je crois être le grand principe essentiel de toute morale, et par conséquent de toute civilisation ... Ils sont la nation la plus glorieuse qui ait jamais habité cette terre. Les Romains et leur empire ne étaient qu'une babiole en comparaison des Juifs. Ils ont donné la religion pour trois quarts du globe et ont influencé les affaires de l'humanité, de plus en plus heureux, que toute autre nation, ancienne ou moderne.

Twain:
Ses contributions à la liste du monde de grands noms de la littérature, la science, l'art, la musique, les finances, la médecine et l'apprentissage abstruse sont également accessibles hors de proportion avec la faiblesse de ses numéros. Il a fait un combat merveilleux dans le monde, dans tous les âges; et l'a fait avec ses mains attachées derrière lui. Il pourrait être vain de lui-même, et être excusé pour cela. L'Egyptien, babylonien et perse rose, rempli la planète avec son et la splendeur, alors fané au rêve des choses et est décédé; l'Grecs et les Romains ont suivi, et a fait une grande bruit, et ils sont partis; d'autres peuples ont vu le jour et ont tenu leur oriflamme pour un temps, mais il brûlé, et ils sont assis dans la pénombre maintenant, ou ont disparu. Le Juif vit tous, tous les battre, et maintenant ce qu'il a toujours été, ne présentant pas de décadence, aucun infirmités de l'âge, aucun affaiblissement de ses pièces, sans ralentissement de ses énergies, aucun ternissement de son esprit alerte et agressif. Toutes les choses sont mortels, mais le Juif; toutes les autres forces passent, mais il reste.
 

King:

Quand les gens critiquent les sionistes, ils signifient Juifs. Vous parlez de l'antisémitisme!

Pensez-y.

Et puis, l'action.

Et dans l'intervalle,

Shabbat Shalom (un bon week-end).

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Dahlia's Hand

In memory of Dalia Lemkus and Almog Shiloni, murdered this week because they were Jews who dared living in the Land of Israel.
The goal of this blog is to bring a bit of contemplation to your Friday night dinner table. Please print and share.

According to accounts, Dalia Lemkus was a normal young woman.

When she was murdered this week, she was hitchhiking to her volunteer job at Yad Sarah.

Yad Sarah means "Sarah's Hand". The name is a nod to the great Matriarch who ran (with her husband Avraham) an enormous free hospitality enterprise some 3,700 years ago.

Incidentally, in the vicinity of Dahlia's home.


(And, ironically, in the vicinity of the murderer, who murdered in order to market the idea that his people are the more authentic heirs to the legacy of Abraham. How do you say "confused" in Arabic again?)
 
Yad Sarah is one of the biggest charity organizations in the Land of Israel. They serve without discrimination Jews, Arabs, Druze, Christians - namely everyone. With 6,000 volunteers and only 150 paid staff, they lend for free over 244,000 pieces of medical equipment every year.

Someone broke their leg and needs crutches? Call Yad Sarah.
Need a wheel chair? Call Yad Sarah.
How about an oxygen concentrator, apnea monitor, infant scale, hospital bed, shower chair, high-tech or assistive device? Call Yad Sarah.

Someone in a wheelchair needs a ride to a medical appointment? Call Yad Sarah.
Someone needs to make a decision on medical devices, needs advice, needs training? Call Yad Sarah.

And this is only a partial list! Learn about the extent of their services here.

Even tourists enjoy the free services of Yad Sarah.

(Yad Sarah's entire $23 million budget comes from private donations. Their main website is here; their American site is here.)

This background tells us a lot about Miss Lemkus. But there's more.

She was just completing her training as an occupational therapist.

She spoke English with a South African accent, thanks to her parents who made aliyah thirty years ago.

When she went to synagogue on Shabbat she made a point to smile at everyone in her row before anything else.

She was sought after by brides to do their makeup on wedding day because she loved doing that chesed and was good at it

When Yad Sarah needed a volunteer to cover the evening shift, what would they do? Call Dahlia.

We know where she got it from. Her father, an optometrist, serves as a volunteer ambulance driver. Her mother, an international sales rep, cares for the elderly. When her brother Chaggai celebrated his bar mitzvah a month ago, guess who cooked all the food?

When a neighbor had to go to the hospital with a sick child, guess who stayed with the other young children all night and refused to be paid?

In other words, she was a normal Jewish girl from a normal Jewish family.

Right?

She couldn't afford a car, so she had to hitchhike: to get to her job in a Kiryat Gat kindergarten and to her volunteer work at Yad Sarah.

She was murdered at the bus stop / hitchhiking post of Alon Shevut.

The town stands on the site of the Battle of Beit Zechariah, fought between the Maccabees and the Seleucid army after the defeat of the Seleucids in Jerusalem.

That modern road is in fact an ancient road to Jerusalem, still marked by Roman milestones. Many ancient mikvaot have been found in the surrounding hills, presumably used by pilgrims heading up to Jerusalem.

Dahlia was trying to head up that road when she was brutally run over then stabbed. Oh, I forgot to mention that she survived a knife attack at that exact spot in 2006. I guess she didn't get the message then.

The murderer first tried to run her over with his Subaru minivan. When he saw that she was still writhing with life, he jumped out and stabbed her in the neck, over and again. Two others were wounded before the murderer was immobilized by a security guard.

“Dalia! Dalia!” wailed her mother as her daughter was lowered into her final resting place.

Her uncle described her as "the angel of our family."

“the angel of our family”
‘Such an incredible loss to our family’ | The Australian Je

This week's questions for your table:

1. Do you agree with me that Dalia was a "normal Jewish girl from a normal Jewish family"?
2. Did Dalia live a full life?


Shabbat Shalom

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Here, Israel

In honor of Marc S's birthday - Happy Birthday Marc!

4 ways to help, and one piece of table-talk quality trivia...

(as always, you are encouraged to print this blogand share it at the table)

1. Educate:

10 min film on history of conflict: http://tinyurl.com/whatreallyhappened
Short film on recent history: http://tinyurl.com/missilesfromgaza
Hamas charter: http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm
- Hamas using UN ambulance to carry troops in battle: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=116_1231063776
- The Iran connection: http://tinyurl.com/iranconnection
- Tom Friedman's take: http://tinyurl.com/TomFriedmansTake

2. Empathize

- Li'el Hoshea ben Miriam - serious head injury;
- Neriya ben Rivka - serious head injury;
- Yitzchak ben Navah - moderate shoulder injury;
- Netanel ben Navah - moderate shrapnel wounds to a lower extremity;
- Maxim ben Olga - light lower extremity injury;
- Yisrael ben Ilana - light shrapnel injury to an ear;
- Yo'ad Ido ben Frieda Rivka - light shrapnel injuries;
- Idan ben Liora - light shrapnel injuries;
- Nadav ben Miriam - light shrapnel injuries;
- Raphael ben Nina
- Noam ben Elza (NOT Aliza as previously noted) - one leg amputated; doctors fighting to save the other;
- Dvir ben Leah and Tzviki Bar-Chai, seriously wounded on Sunday;
- Moshe ben Pnina Rose- soldier who is the only surviving child of a family who lost a son in the army a few years ago. He insisted on serving with his unit, even though he was exempted.
- Gilad ben Aviva has been in captivity in Gaza for over 900 days.

To "adopt" a soldier - ie, receive an individual soldier's name to pray and/or do other good-karma acts on his or her behalf, send an email to "Office of Rabbi Kook, Rehovot" .

3. Chesed

If you know someone living in Israel, pick up the phone and call them. Assure them that you share their pain and understand what they're going through. Send e-mails of support to any Israelis you know. Let them know they are not alone!

* Yashar La’Chayal delivers basic needs, like warm socks, to soldiers, and to poor soldiers’ families. http://yasharlachayal.org/
* Yad Eliezer is sending thousands of gift packs to our soldiers in Gaza. http://www.yadeliezer.org/
* Yad Ezra v'Shulamit is sending 20 tons of food to Israeli families being attacked by Hamas rockets. http://www.yadezra.net/
* Lema'an Achai is helping over 1,000 children from cities under attack attend classes in safety and get a much-needed respite. http://www.israelwar.org/
* Thank Israeli Soldiers delivers your personal letter of thanks and a care package of items soldiers need. http://www.thankisraelisoldiers.org/
* Even more ideas from Jack Kalla: http://tinyurl.com/7waysyoucanhelp

And don’t forget about that lonely person in your neighborhood who would enjoy a Friday night dinner invitation, or even a phone call.

4. Defend
The best way to respond to media bias is to contact the news agency and complain. Keep your remarks respectful and stick to the facts. There is a media-watch email list at HonestReporting.com which has over 155,000 subscribers protesting biased news against Israel.


The Table-Talk Trivia

Riddle - try it on family and friends:
1. Close your eyes and see if you can say the “Shema” by heart.
2. You just said a poem – what type of poem?
(answer below)


Shabbat Shalom.

PS – Yours, truly has a series of new short vids on Jinsider.com.








ANSWER TO RIDDLE: Haiku
Think about it.

Your Brother’s Blood

In memory of Rabbi Gabriel and Rivka Holtzberg and all the other victims.


Please print this message and read/share at your Friday night dinner table.

November 27th, 2008 (Ynet News): The two-year-old son of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka is asking about the whereabouts of his parents, his nanny told Ynet. The nanny, Sandra Samuel, is a local who had been living with the family. She and the toddler are currently staying in the Israeli Consulate in Mumbai. “The baby is okay, but I have no idea about the couple. Nobody told us anything,” she said. “In the evening his mother always puts him to sleep and now he doesn’t understand what’s going on,” she added.

I’m very sad. I did not know the Hotlzbergs, yet I knew them intimately.

I am them. Like the Holtzbergs, my wife and I, too, left our comfort zone to go to the high tech capital on the West Coast, in order to do a little Jewish outreach.

OK, so they chose Mumbai and we chose Silicon Valley, but believe me I can relate to them. I know many Chabad emissaries (several of whom knew the Holtzbergs) and they are as a rule the most giving, loving, selfless and hardworking people you will ever meet. When they move to a community, they are committed forever to that community (unlike yours, truly, who relocated to Baltimore). Contrary to popular myth, they don’t enjoy long-term support from some golden Chabad bankroll. They quickly have to support themselves. I know several who moonlight in other jobs just to pay the bills. Abandoning their mission due to hardship is not an option, not because they took an oath but because they care.

Now, my style of teaching Judaism is slightly different than some Chabad rabbis. Some will tell you, “Just put on the tefillin, it’s good for you, even if you don’t understand it, it’s a mitzvah.”

I will tell you, “You want to learn about tefillin? So come and learn. Whether or not you put it on is your business.”

You may prefer one style over the other. Different strokes for different folks.

But make no mistake: the terrorists did not choose the Chabad House of Mumbai randomly. It was a premeditated attack on Mumbai’s most visibly Jewish target. Unlike all the other victims of this tragedy, the Holtzbergs and their guests were not killed because they represented international business or because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were killed because they were Jews.

This week’s question for your table is: what does that simple fact mean to you?

In other words, do you agree with this news analysis:



For a change, I’m going to put on my Chasidic hat and ask you outright to do a mitzvah, even if you haven’t learned about it.

Please, tonight, 18 minutes before sunset, light Shabbat candles. If you light them anyway and know someone who doesn’t, phone them up and encourage them to – just this one time.

In memory of those who lost their lives, in honor of those who need healing, and in solidarity with the frontline soldiers of Chabad worldwide.

Time to light Nov 28:
Los Angeles: 4:26
New York: 4:12
San Francisco: 4:34
Seattle: 4:03

Other cities – try one of these sites:
http://www.chabad.org/calendar/location.htm
http://shabbos.com/
http://www.candlelightingtimes.org/shabbos/


Shabbat Shalom

Slipping and Sliding

Dedicated to Chaya bas Yehudis, may she have a speedy recovery from her recent surgery.
To the full speedy recovery of Koroush Eliezer Chaim ben Leah.
In memory of Daniel Levian.
In memory of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
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On Sunday I watched the kids enjoy an amazing toy that I never had as a kid.

Not a computer.

Not even electronic.

Not mechanical.

No rules or regulations.

It’s a long sheet of plastic with pin-holes down one side and that connects to a hose, creating a wet and slippery runway to race down again and again – a “Slip-and-Slide”.



You've never seen so much sustained glee.

Summertime. Who needs gadgets?

+++ end of the family section. +++
+++ Reader discretion advised for below +++


Summertime.

“Sami Kuntar was involved in the death of several Israelis.” - BBC News, broadcast worldwide Wednesday night this week.

Involved?? What kind of involvement, O dear BBC?

In the words of Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Samir Kuntar is “one of the most evil and abominable killers in the history of Islamic terror”.

On April 21, 1979, Kuntar headed a terrorist unit of the “Palestinian Liberation Front” which reached the shores of Naharya in a rubber boat, shot at a police patrol and killed an Israeli policeman. In the middle of the night, the unit broke into the home of the Haran family and took hostage Danny, the father of the family, and Einat his four-year old daughter while Smadar, Danny’s wife, her two-year old daughter Yael and a neighbor hid in a hiding place in the family bedroom. The terrorists took Danny and Einat to the shore. When they encountered IDF and police forces there, Samir Kuntar shot Danny at short range and smashed Einat’s head with the butt of his rifle against a rock. In the hiding place of the Haran family, baby Yael suffocated to death as her mother, Smadar, attempted to stifle her cries in order to prevent being discovered by the terrorists. Another Israeli policeman died in the course of the fighting on the beach.

Here is a recent article by Smadar (the surviving wife/mother).

This is the man whom the State of Israel freed today. A hero in the eyes of Lebanon. We witnessed the hero's welcome this man received in Beirut - not only from Hizbollah, but from the country's elected leadership, with fireworks and joyous speeches, who promised his people that he will return to Israel to continue his mission.

That's what the BBC means by "involved".

I will tell you the truth - all of these war drums and battle cries, and the consistent dishonest maligning of Israel by the BBC, NPR, CBC, inter alia, is distracting us from the real truth.

The real truth is that when they kidnapped those 2 soldiers 2 years ago, Hizbollah immediately called for the release of Smadar and friends in a swap. His release was always their aim.

Question for your table - how does this story make you feel?

Personally, it makes me feel three things:

1. We are alone
2. We'd better stick together.
3. We are our own worst enemy

I don't recall a time since coming to Baltimore when there were so many people sitting shiva. This is heavy times.

If you are enjoying your summer - and I hope you are - remember for a minute your cousins in Israel and elsewhere who are in anguish.

Question #2 - It's easy to have 20-20 hindsight, but let's be truthful - if you had been in the driver's seat, would you have released Kuntar?

Here's an article that provides one perspective of the facts and repercussions of this story.

And here are the only heroes of this story:

Shabbat Shalom

Travel/speaking schedule
July 21 – San Francisco
July 22 - Los Angeles - on Finding Meaning in Tragedy and Suffering
July 28 and Aug 4 - Baltimore - on Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism
August 11-12 - Vermont (CAJE Conference)

For details, send an email.

PS -

(Dad showing the kids not what to do)