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HOME & FAMILY Resurrection I walk home from the old city of Zefat down the staircase. The yellow daffodils breathe rhythmically throughout the hilldside. The fresh spring grasses wave their overgrown tips all the way down to the cemetery. The graves are surrounded by dry, hot earth with an occasional large bourgeoning tree guarding the holy site... One summer day in 1980, Dr. Bob Friedman and his son Andrew buckled their seatbelts on an El Al flight to Israel. The excitement of a transcontinental flight showed on Andy's face. His father, a frequent international flyer, sat calmly reading the New York Times. Book Review CornerWhere Heaven Touches Earth - Jewish Life in Jerusalem from Medieval Times to the Present by Dovid Rossoff The handsome, 624 page book with its intriguing title was delivered to me, to be passed on to our Book Reviewer, Judith Weil. The bottom third of the black-and-white slipjacket presented Jerusalem in photorealism, with two thirds showing a stormy sky through which a beam of real light was filtering slantwise through a black cloud with a silver lining.
One of the most common questions I am asked is, "Where did
you find this out?" Or, "How did you know how to do this?"
Well, I started in the Do It Yourself business at a rather
young age. My grandfather, Murray Krinsky (of blessed
memory), introduced me to painting at the age of 6. He was a
master painter, and at the time was hired to paint the Museum
of Natural History in New York.
Prevention of Stammering Stammering presents itself in children from around two years
till the age of about nine. Worried parents initially go to
their doctor, who frequently tries to reassure them that the
child "will grow out of it," and "not to worry." However, the
weeks and months go by and not only does the child not
outgrow it, but the stammer becomes more severe.
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