Children Under the Bridge Song

Good morning to all of you who support Children Under the Bridge. Here is a video for you to enjoy.  As you know, this wonderful lady and her young son are the real power behind our efforts with the street kids.  She is so dedicated to them.  She sent me this Christmas wish and I…

At God’s Table – 2020

As all of us know, 2020 has been a very difficult year, not just in terms of health restrictions but also in terms of the psychological and economic impact of these restrictions.  With that in mind, I’d like to share with you how these restrictions have affected my work and the work with the children…

Michelangelo and the ‘ezer kenegdo

I recently listened to an excellent lecture by Elaine Ruffolo, an art historian, who spoke about Michelangelo’s women (the title of the lecture available on YouTube).  In it she points out that the center of the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is not God’s creation of Adam (perhaps the most famous of the Sistine…

Something Else

One of my readers replied to my recent article about “Losing.”  I thought it was insightful enough to be widely published.  Here it is: All the goings-on in the States reduces the society to the non-society of suspicion, slavery, spies, and policing, as you so well said.  It is a repetition of pre-war and WWII…

Losing

We lost!  I don’t mean Biden won or Trump won.  It doesn’t really matter because the real loss is far greater than who will be President for the next four years.  What we lost is bāṭaḥ.  You know the word (I hope).  It is translated “trust,” and in every circumstance except Proverbs 31:11, whenever it describes human…

The COVID Gondolier

Our recent trip to Venice confirmed that unless COVID restrictions are lifted soon, this wonderful experience will become a memory of the past.  Virtually all the gondoliers are going out of business, many after generations of plying the waters of Venice.