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At sunset on September 8, the ten-day High Holy Day journey from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur begins. These ten Days of Awe are a time of reflection and introspection to help us spiritually prepare for the year to come.

I don’t know if you had a chance to read Thomas Friedman’s piece in the New York Times on August 7th. The column entitled “Steal this Movie” was about a new Israeli documentary, “Precious Life,” by the Gaza reporter for Israel’s TV Channel 10 news, Shlomi Eldar.

So we started almost 150 years ago. If we began a blog then it would probably have been chalk scrawled on rough slate with the latest news on Civil War veterans.

I want to share a story with you. We have been working with a family in our Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP). They lost their home when both parents became unemployed and have been living in a motel for the past 1 ½ years.

We have just completed our July distribution, and thanks to many of our regular volunteers and a whole crew of first-time helpers, we successfully distributed groceries to approximately 260 very appreciative families.