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A Broken Heart

September 9th, 2009

I signed up for Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s 60 Day Journey to the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) email list. I get an email every day to prepare me spiritually and mentally for this Jewish New Year and the Yom Kippur. The emails have been amazing, but none better than today’s email. Here […]

Smile Pinki

June 19th, 2009

I just watched a very moving documentary called Smile Pinki. The movie is short, only 45 minutes, and is about children with cleft palates from extremely poor places in India. The movie follows a few of them from their villages to a hospital, where thanks to the charity, Smile Train, they can have surgery for […]

A Man of Principal

June 4th, 2009

This is a great video showing what a difference one man can make, especially if he is an outsider. This is very inspiring:

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The Health Care “Cost Conundrum”

June 2nd, 2009

I recommend this article on why health care costs are so much higher in some places of the country and yet health care outcomes aren’t any better.
Here is a snippet:
“Yet in 2006 Medicare expenditures (our best approximation of over-all spending patterns) in El Paso were $7,504 per enrollee—half as much as in McAllen. An unhealthy […]

William Wilberforce

December 25th, 2008

“Everyone should know Wilberforce,” Abraham Lincoln once said.
Wilberforce who? William Wilberforce.
I just put down an excellent biography by William Hague called William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner.
First off, I had no idea who William Wilberforce was before I read this book, nor did I realize how great a man he was […]

Pondering Madoff

December 23rd, 2008

David Kotok is the chief investment adviser and writes a market commentary for Cumberland Advisors. I love anything that quotes the Mishnah:
“For this reason, man [i.e. the first human being] was created alone to teach that whoever destroys a single life is as though he had destroyed an entire universe, and whoever saves a single […]

Separation

December 1st, 2008

I am reading a wonderful new biography about William Wilberforce, the great British anti-slave trade campaigner. As part of the book, the author, William Hague, describes the slave trade, how slaves were kidnapped and transported in the most brutal conditions with no regard to health or humanity.
One of the more disgusting stories describes how […]

Charities Need Your Help

November 25th, 2008

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I think everyone should consider that as much as the economy and the stock market may be hurting you, its hurting other people and institutions even more, especially charities and non-profits. Judging just from my ability to give money this year, non-profits are in for a world of hurt. This […]

So proud

October 29th, 2008

I’m a Georgia Bulldog. On Saturdays I bleed red and black. I cannot tell you how proud I am that Mark Richt is our head coach. I actually have had the opportunity to meet with him when I threw a charity flag football event for the Athens, GA Boys and Girls Club. And I can […]

Disrespecting

August 25th, 2008

Ten year old Elvis pleaded with me once he got in my car.
“Please, can we go over two blocks to see if my brother is ok? Two East Siders were threatening him.”
“Is your brother in a gang?” I asked.
“Yeah, he’s West Side, but he’s on probation.”
“Elvis, I don’t want to get involved in gang stuff […]

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