Nadene Goldfoot
While we Jews are enjoying our morning coffees and plans for the day safely in the United States, we have cousins living in southern Israel who face rockets and missiles interrupting theirs. During the past two months 145 rockets and missiles have been aimed and have fallen into southern Israel. One would be enough to ruin my whole month if not the next five years! Roughly that means 72 fell in one week or 10 a day! When does one have time to do anything! PTSD is becoming prevalent among the children. It's no wonder.
When the bloodcurdling siren goes off, people have less than 15 seconds to run quickly to a bomb shelter if one has such a luxury. the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) ,with Rabbi Eckstein's plea, has donated Fellowship bomb shelters to many places and is taking donations. Israel hasn't been able to get this done through the state to all places and needs help in this.
I remember living in Israel from 1980 till almost 1986 in Haifa and Tzfat and living in a government apartment building on David Eleazar Street of many stories high that had a bomb shelter in it. My German shepherd wasn't allowed entrance, though. Most all buildings were built this way. I lived on the very bottom floor and had metal bars over the windows in case of terrorists trying to break in. The apartment came like this.
When I say cousin, I am not theorizing. In DNA studies, we're finding that we Jews might have a common ancestor if we go back about 5 generations with the same person we are married to if that person is also Jewish. We're one big family! Besides these close cousins, I personally am finding a few distant cousins from way back that are from Pakistan and Afghanistan and even Saudi Arabia as well! Finding that we are on the same haplogroup or of the same haplotype (twig off the same branch of the tree of man) is pretty exciting. That certainly gives me a new perspective on our relatives. Our extended family is growing!
Now, if we could just convince our neighbors to stop using those living in southern Israel as target practice and converse like our group does in talking about our DNA, life would be much cheerier.
Research: http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/USENG_homenew
While we Jews are enjoying our morning coffees and plans for the day safely in the United States, we have cousins living in southern Israel who face rockets and missiles interrupting theirs. During the past two months 145 rockets and missiles have been aimed and have fallen into southern Israel. One would be enough to ruin my whole month if not the next five years! Roughly that means 72 fell in one week or 10 a day! When does one have time to do anything! PTSD is becoming prevalent among the children. It's no wonder.
When the bloodcurdling siren goes off, people have less than 15 seconds to run quickly to a bomb shelter if one has such a luxury. the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) ,with Rabbi Eckstein's plea, has donated Fellowship bomb shelters to many places and is taking donations. Israel hasn't been able to get this done through the state to all places and needs help in this.
I remember living in Israel from 1980 till almost 1986 in Haifa and Tzfat and living in a government apartment building on David Eleazar Street of many stories high that had a bomb shelter in it. My German shepherd wasn't allowed entrance, though. Most all buildings were built this way. I lived on the very bottom floor and had metal bars over the windows in case of terrorists trying to break in. The apartment came like this.
When I say cousin, I am not theorizing. In DNA studies, we're finding that we Jews might have a common ancestor if we go back about 5 generations with the same person we are married to if that person is also Jewish. We're one big family! Besides these close cousins, I personally am finding a few distant cousins from way back that are from Pakistan and Afghanistan and even Saudi Arabia as well! Finding that we are on the same haplogroup or of the same haplotype (twig off the same branch of the tree of man) is pretty exciting. That certainly gives me a new perspective on our relatives. Our extended family is growing!
Now, if we could just convince our neighbors to stop using those living in southern Israel as target practice and converse like our group does in talking about our DNA, life would be much cheerier.
Research: http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/USENG_homenew
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