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1 Daniel Levy on 2008 06 06

One person’s dream is another person’s nightmare. The desire to use biofuel and save the planet is casuing starvation to people in Ethiopia due to the rising cost of grain. This is more than the refelction that the Baal Shem Tov spoke of this is a fairly direct result of our actions. Let’s act now.

2 Shmuel Greenbaum on 2009 06 05

Thanks for your insight which one of my subscribers forwarded to me.  My response is below:

When his wife was violently murdered by a suicide bomber, Shmuel Greenbaum wondered if anyone would understand his way of coping with a personal tragedy. Soon after the traumatic event, Greenbaum began a new venture—Partners in Kindness, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching the art of kindness.

Within a few years more than 33,000 endorsers on six continents subscribed to his e-mails. His success led to hundreds of requests for the material to be reprinted, reaching an audience of more than 1.5 million readers in print and electronic media. 

Greenbaum’s first book, A Daily Dose of Kindness, represents the best of these e-mails.  The book contains diverse stories about Israel submitted from one hundred contributors. A Daily Dose of Kindness is the result of the collaboration of hundreds of volunteers and financial supporters of many different religions and nationalities. These stories of caring may bring new hope to Israel, the Middle East and the world.

Visit his websites:

http://www.TraditionOfKindness.org (Jewish)
http://www.PartnersInKindness.org (Non-Sectarian)

3 Menachem Carroll on 2009 06 07

Okay, good idea to look at what WE are doing.  However this sounds a little like blame the victim, and the response of some victims of abuse to say, “This must be my fault, if I were better the abuse would stop.”