Steve Ornstein's Blog – April 2009 Archive (6)

How can I describe the feeling of standing on a street in silence with hundreds of “strangers” at attention listening to the 2 minutes of sirens blaring throughout the city. All cars and buses emptied as the pedestrians stand along side them contemplating those dreadful events.



I was overwhelmed by the solidarity of the moment. Then, like magic, as with the parting of the sea, it closes a chapter on the unimaginable hatred and everyone goes back to LIVING their lives as individuals… Continue

How can I describe the feeling of standing on a street in silence with hundreds of “strangers” at attention listening to the 2 minutes of sirens blaring throughout the city. All cars and buses emptied as the pedestrians stand along side them contemplating those dreadful events.



I was overwhelmed by the solidarity of the moment. Then, like magic, as with the parting of the sea, it closes a chapter on the unimaginable hatred and everyone goes back to LIVING their lives as individuals… Continue

A time for change and Joel Bainerman presents us with a system that creates 5 regions within Israel that are autonomous and directly responsible for the collection and distribution of tax revenues and political restructuring of the election process to make the political candidates directly responsible to their constituencies. Let’s listen. It is innovative and fascinating. Please go to israelseen for the podcast.





Joel Bainerman has been… Continue

By Moshe Dror



I would like to add some thoughts about the significance of light in our cyber culture. We will see why shortly.



The authors of a series of articles from the Forbes-ASAP series on Light remind us all that:

Light is so important in human culture that the entire history of science-poetry-philosophy-arts could be written around the ideas brought up by dealing with light?

Mentioning the ancient Egyptians who worshiped the sun; to the allegory of the… Continue

To hear this podcast please go to Israelseen



Since this program was such a success last year we thought it worth presenting it once again for this Passover.



Contemporary Spiritual Commentary on the Meaning of Freedom and its Relationship to serving God







Through The Holistic Haggadah, Dr. Michael Kagan shares his teachings and approach to holistic Judaism that he has developed through experiential workshops and… Continue

It saddens me to inform all of our supporters that Dr. Eli Lasch, a close friend and contributor to israelseen, passed away April 1, 2009. He was scheduled to visit Israel in a few weeks for his 80th birthday celebration with family and friends.



I had known Eli for over 25 years and had seen him perform his work as a pediatrician first hand. In the 1980’s we lived in the northern city of Safed and Eli came to visit us. Our middle son Ori who at the time was just a child, was not… Continue