My Jewish Pride
I am up early this Sabbath morning, early Saturday morning, May 24, 2003, looking through the Internet Jerusalem Post edition. Even conceding I am biased toward items praising my Jewish people, I find an item this morning that really brings out my Jewish pride.
Educational Column - "Hineni", here I am, ready to serve you.
Published in Saturday, May 24, 2003 Internet Jerusalem Post <http://www.jpost.com>
https://www.hineni.org/inspirations_view.asp?id=17&category=15&CatName=Jewish%20Issues
[excerpt]
THE JEW
By Rabbi Esther Jungreis
You are a Jew
You have traveled the four corners of the earth.
You have been a citizen of every nation.
You have mastered the nuances of every tongue.
You have been a part of every people, and yet you have remained a people apart.
You are a Jew
You have created civilizations
You have given birth to every ideal that has shaped mankind; justice, peace, love, dignity of man, have had all their genesis in your Torah.
But above all, you have been given the unique mission of proclaiming the one-ness of
G-d.
You are a Jew
You have traveled the four corners of the earth
You have known oppression.
You have experienced every form of persecution.
Your body has been scorched by fire.
Your memory fails
You have forgotten your past
But nevertheless, a still, small voice relentlessly calls out to you and demands that you discover your inner self
A still small voice that gives you no peace for within you courses the blood of prophets, martyrs, sages and kings of Israel.
Your roots are sunk in eternity.
You are heir to a legacy over 4,000 years old.
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May 23, 2003
NASA Posts the First View of Earth and Moon From Mars
Posted especially for my buddy Don Kelly, who I know has a high interest in astronomy.
Having gained an almost "ho-hum" feeling when seeing the many famous photographs by astronauts of earth from the moon, it was pleasant and mildly startling for me to find that the Mars Global Surveyor mission has returned the first pictures of earth and moon taken from another planet - the planet Mars. The greater distance and thus the small apparent size of earth and moon makes me just a bit more humble as a resident of the third "speck" from the sun.
Go to:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04531
"Earth/Moon: This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. Because Earth and the Moon are closer to the Sun than Mars, they exhibit phases, just as the Moon, Venus, and Mercury do when viewed from Earth." (continues)
In the picture, earth and moon are in the "half-earth" and "half-moon" phases.
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Photograph Technical Details:
Target Name: Earth
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Spacecraft: Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
Instrument: Mars Orbiter Camera
Product Size: 961 samples x 961 lines
Produced By: Malin Space Science Systems
Producer ID: MOC2-368
Full-Res TIFF: PIA04531.tif (2.775 megabytes)
Posted especially for my buddy Don Kelly, who I know has a high interest in astronomy.
Having gained an almost "ho-hum" feeling when seeing the many famous photographs by astronauts of earth from the moon, it was pleasant and mildly startling for me to find that the Mars Global Surveyor mission has returned the first pictures of earth and moon taken from another planet - the planet Mars. The greater distance and thus the small apparent size of earth and moon makes me just a bit more humble as a resident of the third "speck" from the sun.
Go to:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04531
"Earth/Moon: This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. Because Earth and the Moon are closer to the Sun than Mars, they exhibit phases, just as the Moon, Venus, and Mercury do when viewed from Earth." (continues)
In the picture, earth and moon are in the "half-earth" and "half-moon" phases.
######
Photograph Technical Details:
Target Name: Earth
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Spacecraft: Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
Instrument: Mars Orbiter Camera
Product Size: 961 samples x 961 lines
Produced By: Malin Space Science Systems
Producer ID: MOC2-368
Full-Res TIFF: PIA04531.tif (2.775 megabytes)
Another One Liner
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
Jonathan Winters
I heard this quote given yesterday as advice in a one-day conference about achieving economic development in small rural communities and it has special meaning for me. Western Oklahoma and most areas of the American Great Plains are among the few places in the United States losing population for lack of economic opportunities. I've created a little stir in Weatherford by my proposal for a multi-use recreational snow area using synthetic snow matting - available 365 days a year and primarily aimed for use by youth and college students. It is a complicated project. The devil is in the details. So I've found myself swimming out to the ship.
Part of my swimming is taking a course in "Fundamentals of Marketing" this Summer at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. I am doing some homework to give the project a chance to work. A main goal is to add a quality of life improvement feature in Weatherford to create an environment making new people want to live here. It's a fun project. I've attracted enough attention to get my "five minutes of fame" in a story done on the Channel 9 Oklahoma City CBS news affiliate. So for a brief period at least, I am a TV celebrity on the streets of Weatherford.
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
Jonathan Winters
I heard this quote given yesterday as advice in a one-day conference about achieving economic development in small rural communities and it has special meaning for me. Western Oklahoma and most areas of the American Great Plains are among the few places in the United States losing population for lack of economic opportunities. I've created a little stir in Weatherford by my proposal for a multi-use recreational snow area using synthetic snow matting - available 365 days a year and primarily aimed for use by youth and college students. It is a complicated project. The devil is in the details. So I've found myself swimming out to the ship.
Part of my swimming is taking a course in "Fundamentals of Marketing" this Summer at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. I am doing some homework to give the project a chance to work. A main goal is to add a quality of life improvement feature in Weatherford to create an environment making new people want to live here. It's a fun project. I've attracted enough attention to get my "five minutes of fame" in a story done on the Channel 9 Oklahoma City CBS news affiliate. So for a brief period at least, I am a TV celebrity on the streets of Weatherford.