I’ve shocked when I learned a few months ago that Glenn Pearson, my long time mechanic at Amity Mobil in New Haven, Connecticut, had died unexpectedly. An honest mechanic will tell you when it is nothing, and when it is something. When the noise is nothing at all, and when you need to see a transmission specialist.
On a trip with our Tikvah Ramah New England campers we stopped for dinner at the home of Shayna Hersh, one of our Tikvah staff members.Kenny has a very rare neurological disease called Primary Lateral Sclerosis. It affects his mobility and speech. It doesn’t affect his sense of humor.
Updated in 18 June
| Join us as part of our continuing education series specifically for current and potential staff! When : Thu Jun 18, 2020 1pm – 2pm Eastern Time – New York We’ll hear from Howard Blas, the director of the National Ramah Tikvah Network of the National Ramah Commission. In this capacity, Howard works with Ramah camps as they include and support campers with disabilities. Howard also staffs Birthright Israel experiences with Shorashim for people with intellectual disabilities. Please join via this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8458818821 Shorashim is dedicated to building bridges, and in this time of “social distancing,” we will continue to find ways to achieve these goals. Together, we will build a bridge to tomorrow where we will be able to learn, travel, and experience our cultures together again |
We are still so sports-starved that when the PGA, NASCAR and horse-racing recently resumed, we couldn’t get enough. Sports writers commented about sports resuming post-Covid-19 didn’t sound so important anymore—compared to the issue they had just begun to address. While basketball and football do seem to have a clearer sense of when they will resume, baseball is still up in the air.