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My Shabbat with Israeli Soldiers
Witnessing a miracle in our times.
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September 6, 2009
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About the Author
Mrs. Lori Palatnik
Lori Palatnik is a writer and Jewish educator who has appeared on television and radio, and is the author of "Friday Night and Beyond: The Shabbat Experience Step-By-Step," "Remember My Soul - What to do in Memory of a Loved One," and co-author of "Gossip: 10 Pathways to Eliminate It From Your Life and Transform Your Soul." She is a much sought-after international speaker, having lectured in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Central America, South America, South Africa and Israel, including featured talks at Yale, Brown and Penn. She lives in the Washington D.C. area, with her husband, Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik. Lori is the Founder of The Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, an international initiative that brings over 1,000 women to Israel each year from ten different countries on highly subsidized programs to inspire them with the beauty and wisdom of their heritage. She is the busy mother of five children, ages 24 to 14; and her son, Zev, just finished serving as a sharpshooter in the IDF. Her weekly video blog, "Lori Almost Live" is a popular feature on aish.com, viewed by over 50,000 people each month.
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(11) koby, September 12, 2009 2:34 AM
i cry for israel
thanks. it makes me cry to go home to israel.
(10) fernande cohen, September 11, 2009 2:53 AM
beautiful
i love listening to you , lori, youre so down to earth and youre always smiling , then lori , can you help me here..please...i need to make a video ...and i dont know how...can you or anybody who helps you do yours call me or send me an email for him to explain to me how..thank you
(9) lisa, September 9, 2009 3:28 AM
Count us in!!!
Some of us want dearly to go to our homeland, Israel, knowing all to well about America chipping at out soul, our neshama. But we all can't just go.....maybe we have elderly parents here, or our jobs have us here for a few more years..our spouses are not "ready"..and yes, the list goes on. Just bc we are not there yet...does not mean we do not want to go & yes, that hurts more!! I think as long as our heart is there..(& yes our wallets also) we will get there....save us some of that great view!!
(8) Anonymous, September 9, 2009 12:46 AM
"...Jews run from danger..."
Same anonymous as before - my wife called me to dinner and had to interrupt. The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto bravely fought the Germans for eight weeks. Many nations (Poland, etc.) didn't last 3 days and their efforts were both brave and meritorious and these Jews didn't run from danger. It's a terrible stereotype.
(7) Anonymous, September 8, 2009 9:57 PM
Part truth, part not truth, but non truth damaging
I suspect neither I nor any subscriber can deny the statistical incidence of the number of IDF soldiers whose parental heritage was from the United States. Nonetheless, I take umbrage at the statement that "...when there is danger in the world, Jews flee..." The record of herosim of American soldiers in the Second World War is almost unbelievable. We like to view ourselves as corpulent, slothful, indolent, and unfocused. Yet, incredible and inumerable incidents of bravery at Bastogne (sp?), and island hopping in the Pacific among just a few distinguish American soldiers as among the bravest in the world - and the American Jewish community was a large statistical component of these campaigns. Many goyim decry the absence of Jewish headstones in our national cemeteries, but this is not testimony to the absence in these campaigns, but Jewish soldiers wanting to be buried with family. I understand that the focus of your comment was Americans not participating in the IDF. I think this is more attributable to our national cultural consciousness than to lack of identifiication with IDF causes. America is a society of insant solutions. I returned from Italy, where many of the churches took four hundred years to build. The United States went from discovery of nuclear fission by Enrico Fermi in 1938 to the bomb in 1945 - 7 years later. We see something we like in a window, we don't ask the price and put down our credit card as an instant solution. Thus, I believe the long winded, wooly nd overinflated nature of the conflict, not absence of bravery has American youth recoiling from the cause, not it's merits. There are 81,000 American soldiers buried at Normandy and many Jews are among them. They didn"t flee in the face of danger _ I dare say we can celebrate Shabbat partly due to their efforts.