As a general principle, Jewish holidays are divided between days on which you must starve and days on which you must overeat. Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year, based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are ritually purified, you definitely aren't. Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring light snacking.Note: Unlike Christians, who simply attend church on special days (e.g. Ash Wednesday), on Jewish holidays most Jews take the whole day off. This is because Jews, for historical and personal reasons, are more stressed out.
The Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays:
Rosh Hashanah ------- Feast
Tzom Gedalia ----------- Fast
Yom Kippur -------------- More fasting
Sukkot -------------------- Feast for a week +
Hashanah Rabbah ---- More feasting
Simchat Torah --------- Keep right on feasting
Month of Heshvan ----- No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on yourself.
Hanukkah ---------------- Eat potato pancakes
Tenth of Tevet --------- Do not eat potato pancakes
Tu B'Shevat ------------ Feast
Fast of Esther --------- Fast
Purim --------------------- Eat pastry
Passover ---------------- Do not eat pastry for a week
Shavuot ------------------ Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes, etc.)
17th of Tammuz -------- Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes)
Tish B'Av ----------------- Serious fast (don't even think about cheesecake or blintzes)
Month of Elul ------------ End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating Disorders before High
Holidays arrive again.
There are many forms of Judaism:Cardiac Judaism ---------- in my heart I am a Jew.
Gastronomic Judaism --- we eat Jewish foods.
Pocketbook Judaism ----- I give to Jewish causes.
Drop-off Judaism --------- drop the kids off at Sunday School; go out to breakfast.
Twice a Year Judaism -- attend service Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
You know you grew up Jewish when: You did not respond to the teacher calling roll on the first day of school because you thought your name was "Princess".
You've had at least one female relative who drew eyebrows on her face that were always asymmetrical.
You spent your entire childhood thinking that everyone calls roast beef "brisket."
Your family dog responds to complaints uttered in Yiddish.
Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your grandparents.
You've experienced the phenomena of 50 people fitting into a 10-foot-wide dining room hitting
each other with plastic plates & forks trying to get to a deli tray.
You thought pasta was the stuff used exclusively for kugel and kasha with bowties.
You watched Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan every Sunday night.
You were as tall as your grandmother by age seven.
You never knew anyone whose last name didn't end in one of 6 standard suffixes (-man,-witz, -berg, -stein, -blatt or -baum).
You grew up and were surprised to find out that wine doesn't always taste like year-old cranberry sauce.
You can look at gefilte fish without turning green.
You grew up thinking there was a fish called lox.
You can understand some Yiddish but you can't speak it.
You know how to pronounce numerous Yiddish words and use them correctly in context, yet you don't exactly know what they mean. Is that Kenahurra or is that kaninehurra?.
You have at least one ancestor who is related to your spouse's ancestor.
You grew up thinking it was normal for someone to shout "Are you okay? Are you okay?" through the bathroom door if you were in there for longer than 3 minutes.
You have at least six male relatives named Michael or David.
Your grandparent's furniture smelled like mothballs, was covered in plastic and was as comfortable as sitting on sandpaper.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Thanksgiving in Cherry Hill
So I brought my camera to the Thanksgiving dinner in Cherry Hill NJ this past week. I thought I'd share a few pictures with everyone! I also let Matthew take hold of the camera for a bit. It got passed around.
They're really big. but I dont know how to make them smaller! You'd think I could with all my web experience, right?
Zev
They're really big. but I dont know how to make them smaller! You'd think I could with all my web experience, right?
Zev
Great Family tree idea/stuff
I've been busy with a new job, haven't had a chance to post much to the family blog. I work for a company called Isys supporting the wireless handsets for the Pentagon, dept of homeland security and now we have been tasked to support the transition team for our New president. In addition, it's now basketball season and i help coach my U13 son's (michael) Mclean, VA select/travel basketball team. See attached picture of our team that recently made it to the finals of a recent basketball tournament in Chantilly, va. My younger son Matthew, U10 also plays for the Falls Church County team. (see attached pictures). Last year, Mike's team made it to the County Finals in Fairfax. It helps having a 6'4 " 12 year old on your team, he makes you look like a genius alot !!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Family tree
Kudos to Jordan Weitberg for starting a tree on this website "Geni", an interesting and fun way to share our family data, learn family history and realize there are cousins we never knew existed! Sign on if you have not yet and input your branch on the tree. Over this Thanksgiving holiday, the tree has grown to 135 members! Between this blog, (kudos to Andrew Livingston) and the online family tree, we can reach family members who otherwise would not be engaged. Welcome newbies! What am I thankful for? My family!!! Check out this link:
http://www.geni.com/share?t=6000000001891413124
http://www.geni.com/share?t=6000000001891413124
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Sent by Diane - This is funny
see link on you tube..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE
Election time is approaching, should be a tight race..
Election time is approaching, should be a tight race..
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Matt & Mike Livingston soccer teams
Have very successful soccer seasons..U11 Matt's teams won the August Cup and Cardinal Cup and did very well in Division 2 this season. Mike's U14 team were finalist in the Columbia, MD tournament and had a great season in the NCSL
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Listen to this audio clip
Do most people know why they are choosing Obama or McCain? Clip from Howard Stern show.
http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3
http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3
Monday, October 20, 2008
Internet, Cellphones May Strengthen Family Unit, Study Finds
Internet, Cellphones May Strengthen Family Unit, Study Finds
» Links to this article
By Donna St. George
Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 20, 2008; Page A07
Parents and children might rush through their days in different directions, but the American family is as tight-knit as in the last generation -- or more so -- because of the widespread use of cellphones and the Internet, according to a new poll.
In what was described as the first detailed survey of its kind, released yesterday, researchers reported that family life has not been weakened, as many had feared, by new technology. Rather, families have compensated for the stress and hurry of modern life with cellphone calls, e-mail and text messages and other new forms of communication.
"There had been some fears that the Internet had been taking people away from each other," said Barry Wellman, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto and one of the authors of the report, published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. "We found just the opposite."
In the poll, 60 percent of adults said that the new technologies did not affect the closeness of their family, while 25 percent said cellphones and online communication made their families closer and 11 percent said that the technology had a negative effect.
Wellman said families appreciated the innovations because "they know what each other is doing during the day." This, he said, comports with his other research, which shows that technology "doesn't cut back on their physical presence with each other. It has not cut down on their face time."
The findings were based on a nationally representative poll of 2,252 people, which explored technology use and profiled a group of 482 adults who were married or living together with minor children. These "traditional nuclear families" have been of particular scholarly interest, the report's authors said. They tried to examine trends in single-parent families, too, but the poll numbers were too small to be valid, they said. Cellphones and Internet use were widespread in two-parent households, regardless of education, income, employment, race and ethnicity, with 94 percent saying at least one adult used the Internet and 84 percent saying children were using the Internet if This marks a large change in short order. Only since the start of the decade has a majority of Americans been Internet and cellphone users, researchers said.
Where technology has changed family life, those polled said it was for the good.
Forty-seven percent of adults said cellphones and the Internet had improved the quality of family communication. Another 47 percent said there was no effect, and 2 percent said there had been a decrease in quality. The positive effect reflects family life for Randy and Ana Tillim of Germantown, who have two children. Their sons play online. Both parents rely on BlackBerrys not just for work but for the stuff of daily life. They let each other know about schedule changes, dinner plans, sick children.
I think it brings us closer, because we're able to communicate throughout the day," said Randy, 38. "I don't know what we did without it."
Ana, 42, said she finds it disconcerting to be without her BlackBerry. "I definitely feel naked without it," she said.
Many parents have embraced technology because they think their children will benefit, said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet project.
"Parents are extending themselves to provide their children with technology because they think it's important or useful," he said.
Respondents to the poll said family life was a top priority. Fifty-eight percent said they had family dinners every day, and 26 percent said almost every day.
Still, the poll showed that technology could have drawbacks. Families with multiple communication devices were less likely than other groups to eat dinner together daily and to feel satisfied that they had enough family time. But researchers said the heaviest technology users are also people with the heaviest work schedules, which could explain this.
The ease of being in touch has created a phenomenon that Rainie calls "love taps," in which couples exchange hellos and touch base with a regularity that did not exist 10 years ago.
This practice extends to children, too. Forty-two percent of parents with children ages 7 to 17 call their sons and daughters once a day or more on a cellphone, 35 percent keep in touch on a landline and 7 percent communicate by text, according to the poll.
The popularity of high-speed Internet -- now in 66 percent of two-parent homes, according to the poll -- has created another family phenomenon: huddling around a screen to watch YouTube videos together or other Internet entertainment, a kind of "virtual hearth," Rainie said.
Still, not everyone is a convert to the age of instant communication.
Alex Portillo, 37, a father of three in Clarksburg who finds it useful in business, said that he is less convinced of its benefit at home, even though there are four cellphones in his family and six computers. He said he limits how the devices are used, not wanting them to replace more important face-to-face experiences. As a society, Portillo said, "we have so many communications devices that we don't have time for each other. . . . It only drifts the family apart."
» Links to this article
By Donna St. George
Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 20, 2008; Page A07
Parents and children might rush through their days in different directions, but the American family is as tight-knit as in the last generation -- or more so -- because of the widespread use of cellphones and the Internet, according to a new poll.
In what was described as the first detailed survey of its kind, released yesterday, researchers reported that family life has not been weakened, as many had feared, by new technology. Rather, families have compensated for the stress and hurry of modern life with cellphone calls, e-mail and text messages and other new forms of communication.
"There had been some fears that the Internet had been taking people away from each other," said Barry Wellman, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto and one of the authors of the report, published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. "We found just the opposite."
In the poll, 60 percent of adults said that the new technologies did not affect the closeness of their family, while 25 percent said cellphones and online communication made their families closer and 11 percent said that the technology had a negative effect.
Wellman said families appreciated the innovations because "they know what each other is doing during the day." This, he said, comports with his other research, which shows that technology "doesn't cut back on their physical presence with each other. It has not cut down on their face time."
The findings were based on a nationally representative poll of 2,252 people, which explored technology use and profiled a group of 482 adults who were married or living together with minor children. These "traditional nuclear families" have been of particular scholarly interest, the report's authors said. They tried to examine trends in single-parent families, too, but the poll numbers were too small to be valid, they said. Cellphones and Internet use were widespread in two-parent households, regardless of education, income, employment, race and ethnicity, with 94 percent saying at least one adult used the Internet and 84 percent saying children were using the Internet if This marks a large change in short order. Only since the start of the decade has a majority of Americans been Internet and cellphone users, researchers said.
Where technology has changed family life, those polled said it was for the good.
Forty-seven percent of adults said cellphones and the Internet had improved the quality of family communication. Another 47 percent said there was no effect, and 2 percent said there had been a decrease in quality. The positive effect reflects family life for Randy and Ana Tillim of Germantown, who have two children. Their sons play online. Both parents rely on BlackBerrys not just for work but for the stuff of daily life. They let each other know about schedule changes, dinner plans, sick children.
I think it brings us closer, because we're able to communicate throughout the day," said Randy, 38. "I don't know what we did without it."
Ana, 42, said she finds it disconcerting to be without her BlackBerry. "I definitely feel naked without it," she said.
Many parents have embraced technology because they think their children will benefit, said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet project.
"Parents are extending themselves to provide their children with technology because they think it's important or useful," he said.
Respondents to the poll said family life was a top priority. Fifty-eight percent said they had family dinners every day, and 26 percent said almost every day.
Still, the poll showed that technology could have drawbacks. Families with multiple communication devices were less likely than other groups to eat dinner together daily and to feel satisfied that they had enough family time. But researchers said the heaviest technology users are also people with the heaviest work schedules, which could explain this.
The ease of being in touch has created a phenomenon that Rainie calls "love taps," in which couples exchange hellos and touch base with a regularity that did not exist 10 years ago.
This practice extends to children, too. Forty-two percent of parents with children ages 7 to 17 call their sons and daughters once a day or more on a cellphone, 35 percent keep in touch on a landline and 7 percent communicate by text, according to the poll.
The popularity of high-speed Internet -- now in 66 percent of two-parent homes, according to the poll -- has created another family phenomenon: huddling around a screen to watch YouTube videos together or other Internet entertainment, a kind of "virtual hearth," Rainie said.
Still, not everyone is a convert to the age of instant communication.
Alex Portillo, 37, a father of three in Clarksburg who finds it useful in business, said that he is less convinced of its benefit at home, even though there are four cellphones in his family and six computers. He said he limits how the devices are used, not wanting them to replace more important face-to-face experiences. As a society, Portillo said, "we have so many communications devices that we don't have time for each other. . . . It only drifts the family apart."
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Hi from Renee
Hi everybody. We are all recovering from Ike. My store has reopened but it still has a lot of repairs to be made. Mom will be coming home from San Diego Sunday or Monday. She is now at Aunt Bernice's. There are people still without lights but progress is being made. We're all fine though. I hope that Hunter and I will be back next summer for the picnic. My love to all.
Cousin Renee
Cousin Renee
Anybody watching the VP debate tonight?
If you have a chance, would like your thoughts on who won and why ..I will put a poll up..
Andy
Andy
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
My own website!
Hey everyone! I really need to come back here more often, look at all the people who have been updating. I really hope this gets out to the whole Lobel family. I'll do what I can to help make that happen. I see my mother has made a post, and of course it's in some shade of pink or purple.
So I've been busy as can be lately. But one of the things I've been working on has been my own website! Everyone can preview it here:
ZevDesigns.com
Please give me feedback on it! I realize there's very little content in it right now. But that's what I've got to work on in my free time, and only at certain computers. The free time is very hard to come by lately too.
Hope to hear more from everyone!
Have a good week!
~CZH
So I've been busy as can be lately. But one of the things I've been working on has been my own website! Everyone can preview it here:
Please give me feedback on it! I realize there's very little content in it right now. But that's what I've got to work on in my free time, and only at certain computers. The free time is very hard to come by lately too.
Hope to hear more from everyone!
Have a good week!
~CZH
Monday, September 29, 2008
the update
Hey all,
I thought I would take a few minutes here to send an update from out here in Missouri.
School is going fast! I am graduating in May 2009 and already looking for jobs. I have interviewed with one company and I have at least 2 more interviews set up. This semester has been crazy with lots of homework and studying to do, not to mention all the work outside of regular school that we have to do here. Aside from looking for jobs, every engineer has to take a 'Fundamentals of Engineering' exam in order to graduate. Its coming up at the end of October so I have to begin studying for that pretty soon!
The weather has been great out here, only a small bit of rain from the hurricane. I wish everyone down south a safe return to home and work!
Cool idea on the blog though, hopefully more people will post!
Thats all for now from Missouri, talk to ya all lata!
I thought I would take a few minutes here to send an update from out here in Missouri.
School is going fast! I am graduating in May 2009 and already looking for jobs. I have interviewed with one company and I have at least 2 more interviews set up. This semester has been crazy with lots of homework and studying to do, not to mention all the work outside of regular school that we have to do here. Aside from looking for jobs, every engineer has to take a 'Fundamentals of Engineering' exam in order to graduate. Its coming up at the end of October so I have to begin studying for that pretty soon!
The weather has been great out here, only a small bit of rain from the hurricane. I wish everyone down south a safe return to home and work!
Cool idea on the blog though, hopefully more people will post!
Thats all for now from Missouri, talk to ya all lata!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
We have Cousin Marian up and blogging !!
Andy,
I did it! When I looked at the site I was so pleased to read what's there so far. Is there a way to get notices on my e-mail so I know when there's a new posting? I signed up for something - some blog notification - but I don't think it notifies my e-mail.
Cousin Marian
Marian,
I will check into this with google, let me know how the other things i set up for to handle this are working
Andrew
I did it! When I looked at the site I was so pleased to read what's there so far. Is there a way to get notices on my e-mail so I know when there's a new posting? I signed up for something - some blog notification - but I don't think it notifies my e-mail.
Cousin Marian
Marian,
I will check into this with google, let me know how the other things i set up for to handle this are working
Andrew
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Hi from Marian
Hello everyone. Most of you know who I am but for those who don't, I'm Uncle Jack and Aunt Bernice's daughter from San Diego. I'm married to Doug and we live in Maryland near Damascus. We have two children, Jennifer, who lives in Rhode Island, and David, who is a senior at Missouri Science and Technology in Rolla, Missouri.
My mom still lives in San Diego and is doing fine. I always encourage her to come and visit us and come to the annual picnic and she's done that the last few years.
My brother, Albert and sister-in-law, Helene live in Las Vegas, NV.
That's my branch of the family.
We enjoy the annual picnic and visiting with our cousins and look forward to the next one. For those of you who don't attend, please consider joining us next time and getting to know everyone better. It's so nice to connect to family.
-Cousin Marian
My mom still lives in San Diego and is doing fine. I always encourage her to come and visit us and come to the annual picnic and she's done that the last few years.
My brother, Albert and sister-in-law, Helene live in Las Vegas, NV.
That's my branch of the family.
We enjoy the annual picnic and visiting with our cousins and look forward to the next one. For those of you who don't attend, please consider joining us next time and getting to know everyone better. It's so nice to connect to family.
-Cousin Marian
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Hi from Helene
Hi. I'm Helene (Goldberg) Cohen from Voorhees NJ. I am one of the granddaughters of Katy (Lobel) Markowitz and the daughter of Shirley and Lennie Goldberg. Although I don't believe it, my birth certificate and life experience shows that I am 60 years old. My children are Karen (Cohen) and Mark Bloom who live in Oakland California with my two grandsons, Micah and Jonah, Lisa (Cohen) Croce who lives in Marlton New Jersey with my granddaughter, Lana and KC (Kevin Cohen) Masters who lives in Union City, New Jersey. I recently retired after 20 years with 7-Eleven, Inc. Accounting and now spend my days taking care of Lana. I work part time evenings and Saturdays at a local dance studio and do a little bit of income tax prep during the tax season. I greatly enjoy the contact I have with a lot of our cousins in this area and would love to get to know more of you and your families. Thanx, Andy, for putting all this together. I think it will be fun.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Birth Control In Jeopardy! Please Act Fast!
Dear Friends,
Note from Marci: As preposterous as it may sound, I assure you that this is NOT an Internet Hoax!! For additional commentary, I recommend the September 18th 2008 NYTimes Op-Ed column written by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/opinion/19clinton.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin Please go to the NOW website and register your opposition - it's quick and easy. Thank you. ML ********************************************************************************************************************************
The Bush Administration has now published the rewritten rules on "conscience" and those of us in good conscience must register our outrage.
Send your comments to Secretary Mike Leavitt at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tell him: "This Administration has lost its moral compass when the personal and private beliefs of a pharmacist or bookkeeper are more important than a woman's bodily integrity, her health, her future, and her right to family planning options. Birth Control is NOT Abortion."
There are less than 30 days before this restrictive and destructive regulation goes into effect. Act NOW!
Go to the NOW website to QUICKLY AND EASILY SEND AN EMAIL TO SECRETARY LEAVITT:
http://www.capwiz.com/now/issues/alert/?alertid=11958671
Background:
In July, advocates learned of a draft administrative regulation which redefined abortion and threatened to withhold family planning funds from clinics and medical providers if they did not follow a set of punitive and often redundant rules.
On Tuesday, August 26 - Women's Equality Day no less - the proposed regulations were rewritten, finalized and published in the Federal Register. Despite the elimination of the most controversial language in the leaked draft (which defined many common forms of contraception as abortion), the new version of the rule expands the universe of providers that can refuse contraception and other health care services, including abortion.
Even with some editing, the rule continues to allow doctors, nurses, and nearly anyone else employed in a health care setting to deny women access to birth control, based on their own personal belief that birth control is immoral.
The regulation puts other federal and state laws and policies that protect women's access to birth control in serious jeopardy, including state laws that require hospitals to provide sexual-assault survivors with access to emergency contraception. Currently, there are "crisis pregnancy centers" in communities across the country that look like health care centers, but deliver woefully incomplete care and only provide the reproductive healthcare options that fit their agenda: NO birth control, NO abortion -- and NO choice for women and families who need it!
If Bush's proposed regulation takes effect, these "crisis pregnancy centers" are likely to receive a massive influx of our tax dollars.
At a time when 17 million women are in need of publicly-supported reproductive health care services, this regulation disparately impacts the low-income, uninsured and under-insured women who rely on these programs for their health information and services!
TAKE ACTION NOW - Send your comments to Secretary Leavitt at HHS that this must not continue.
Women's rights and health advocates have already sent almost a half million protest messages, but we must continue to demand that this lame duck Administration CEASE this effort.
Talking Points (add these and your own thoughts to the email when you "take action")
This will leave the door open for community health centers, hospitals and individuals to refuse to provide mainstream family planning counseling and contraception because they fear losing federal funds -- and it will expand the power of individuals to refuse to provide even the most basic information, counseling on contraception, and referral for important health care services.
Federal law has for years carefully balanced protections for an individual's religious liberty (conscience) and a patient's right to the full range of reproductive health care. The new, unnecessary regulations give major weight to the rights of the providers and the patients lose out.
TAKE ACTION NOW
Note from Marci: As preposterous as it may sound, I assure you that this is NOT an Internet Hoax!! For additional commentary, I recommend the September 18th 2008 NYTimes Op-Ed column written by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/opinion/19clinton.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin Please go to the NOW website and register your opposition - it's quick and easy. Thank you. ML ********************************************************************************************************************************
The Bush Administration has now published the rewritten rules on "conscience" and those of us in good conscience must register our outrage.
Send your comments to Secretary Mike Leavitt at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tell him: "This Administration has lost its moral compass when the personal and private beliefs of a pharmacist or bookkeeper are more important than a woman's bodily integrity, her health, her future, and her right to family planning options. Birth Control is NOT Abortion."
There are less than 30 days before this restrictive and destructive regulation goes into effect. Act NOW!
Go to the NOW website to QUICKLY AND EASILY SEND AN EMAIL TO SECRETARY LEAVITT:
http://www.capwiz.com/now/issues/alert/?alertid=11958671
Background:
In July, advocates learned of a draft administrative regulation which redefined abortion and threatened to withhold family planning funds from clinics and medical providers if they did not follow a set of punitive and often redundant rules.
On Tuesday, August 26 - Women's Equality Day no less - the proposed regulations were rewritten, finalized and published in the Federal Register. Despite the elimination of the most controversial language in the leaked draft (which defined many common forms of contraception as abortion), the new version of the rule expands the universe of providers that can refuse contraception and other health care services, including abortion.
Even with some editing, the rule continues to allow doctors, nurses, and nearly anyone else employed in a health care setting to deny women access to birth control, based on their own personal belief that birth control is immoral.
The regulation puts other federal and state laws and policies that protect women's access to birth control in serious jeopardy, including state laws that require hospitals to provide sexual-assault survivors with access to emergency contraception. Currently, there are "crisis pregnancy centers" in communities across the country that look like health care centers, but deliver woefully incomplete care and only provide the reproductive healthcare options that fit their agenda: NO birth control, NO abortion -- and NO choice for women and families who need it!
If Bush's proposed regulation takes effect, these "crisis pregnancy centers" are likely to receive a massive influx of our tax dollars.
At a time when 17 million women are in need of publicly-supported reproductive health care services, this regulation disparately impacts the low-income, uninsured and under-insured women who rely on these programs for their health information and services!
TAKE ACTION NOW - Send your comments to Secretary Leavitt at HHS that this must not continue.
Women's rights and health advocates have already sent almost a half million protest messages, but we must continue to demand that this lame duck Administration CEASE this effort.
Talking Points (add these and your own thoughts to the email when you "take action")
This will leave the door open for community health centers, hospitals and individuals to refuse to provide mainstream family planning counseling and contraception because they fear losing federal funds -- and it will expand the power of individuals to refuse to provide even the most basic information, counseling on contraception, and referral for important health care services.
Federal law has for years carefully balanced protections for an individual's religious liberty (conscience) and a patient's right to the full range of reproductive health care. The new, unnecessary regulations give major weight to the rights of the providers and the patients lose out.
TAKE ACTION NOW
Got an idea to help the world? Google will give you 10 million !!
I have a great idea, IMPEACH BUSH !!
If that doesn't better the world, i don't know what will ! Where do i pick up my check
If that doesn't better the world, i don't know what will ! Where do i pick up my check
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Diane's post
I think that this is great, esp. for the younger generation who may get to know each other whereas otherwise they might not have. Thanks to Andy, and spread the word to your kids! I am posting a picture taken last spring at Corey's school concert. He has his Disney smile on. He is part of the Northeastern Choral Society (32 members) and the Chamber singers (16 members). Next concert, Oct 26th with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and the Jerusalem Chorus. Can't wait! He was also in the school play last year,(and all through high school) We have a lot of entertainers in the family! Hear him sing on youtube "Corey Holland sings". Cousin Jennifer Coe taped his recital and posted it. Oh, was I supposed to write about myself? ; )
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Update Aunt Rae
Good afternoon family:Here's the latest on the last of the Lobel siblings. Mom is still at Michaels. Monday she is flying to San Diego to have an extended stay with Bruce and Barbara. She was able to get all of her meds filled in Dallas so she is sent for 90 days. Her power is back at her apartment. Melvin and Sandi were able to get there before I was so they cleaned out her frig. he had no damage of any kind. Streets here are still full of debris and a lot of stop lights are still out. Also groceries are still in short supply. We don't think it's a good idea for her to come back yet. She won't be able to navigate the 4 way stops where there are no lights and she will have trouble getting supplies. She will have Bruce to take care of her and she is comfortable there. Plus she'll be able to see Aunt Bernice and Anita and her family. My store is still closed. My boss hopes to reopen Wednesday but the roof people haven't been there yet. The inside is being taken care of by a restoration company. This weekend they are drying the inside of the walls and treating for mold. I have power at home again so my coffee is back. I talk to mom daily and she is extremely grateful for the emails I have gotten. She is really distraught that she can't be home but we have to think of her health and well-being. She is depressed--I can tell. Keep in touch with me and keep thinking about us.I'll keep in touch with updates.Love to all,ReneeP.S. Please forward this to whomever is missing from the email list.
Hi from Lisa from NJ
Hi, everyone. I'm Lisa (Cohen) Croce from South Jersey. I'm Shirley's granddaughter and have attended the last 3 picnics at Eileen and Mo's. I am happy to connect with everyone. I am 37 and currently work in the mortgage industry. I am also going to school to make a career change into court reporting / stenography. My daughter Lana and I live in Kings Grant in Marlton. Lana will be 3 in December. Lastly for anyone who's local and interested, I'm performing in Haddonfield Plays and Players production of Oklahoma! on Oct 24, 25, 26, 31 and Nov 1 and 2. It's at Haddonfield High School and I'd love for everyone to come out and see it!! For more info, you can email me at lisa8241@comcast.net.
xo, Lisa
xo, Lisa
Welcome to the Party everyone!
Hey everyone,
It's Corey, Diane from PA's son. I think this is going to be very interesting and I agree with how useful it will be for everyone. And I think that it will be VERY simiple for everyone to learn how to use. If ever anyone needs any help with it ever. I'll be just as happy to help as Andy would be. I recommend everyone bookmarks this page, (and if no one knows how to do that, ask someone, the younger ones usually know).
For the small collection of Lobels that have not met me yet:
My name is Corey Holland, I'm the 20 year old (yes 20 now) son of Diane. We're part of the Philadelphia family. I currently go to college in Boston, Mass, at Northeastern University. I'm in my third year of a Graphic Design degree. ME:
If anyone needs help with making a post I found this video that MIGHT be of some help to everyone, though its a little small. Just pay attention to what he's pointing to.
Hope everyone enjoys blogging here. It honestly will be a great way to keep in touch.
Looking forward to hearing from you all soon!
~Corey
It's Corey, Diane from PA's son. I think this is going to be very interesting and I agree with how useful it will be for everyone. And I think that it will be VERY simiple for everyone to learn how to use. If ever anyone needs any help with it ever. I'll be just as happy to help as Andy would be. I recommend everyone bookmarks this page, (and if no one knows how to do that, ask someone, the younger ones usually know).
For the small collection of Lobels that have not met me yet:
My name is Corey Holland, I'm the 20 year old (yes 20 now) son of Diane. We're part of the Philadelphia family. I currently go to college in Boston, Mass, at Northeastern University. I'm in my third year of a Graphic Design degree. ME:
If anyone needs help with making a post I found this video that MIGHT be of some help to everyone, though its a little small. Just pay attention to what he's pointing to.
Hope everyone enjoys blogging here. It honestly will be a great way to keep in touch.
Looking forward to hearing from you all soon!
~Corey
Friday, September 19, 2008
Web links for Andy Livingston
Linked In- Is a business networking site..http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro
Facebook - is a social networking site to catch up with high school friends and others.. http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1461678893&ref=profile
Facebook - is a social networking site to catch up with high school friends and others.. http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1461678893&ref=profile
The Lobel family is blogging !!
Yes welcome to the 21st century this is a great place to post family pictures, tell family stories and overall just kibbitz about anything you like ! Seems the only time we get together is for a wedding or a funeral, life is too short for that..
I have made everybody a contributor, it's real easy to post pictures and things....Andy
I have made everybody a contributor, it's real easy to post pictures and things....Andy
Skype - Great, Free software to help Lobel Family communicate
Make calls from your computer — free to other people on Skype. You can even add a webcam, so cross-country cousins can meet, play games and bond. See the following link to download. My Skype User name is andyisyrlus..See following link to download software
http://www.skype.com/
Let me know if you have any questions...Andrew
http://www.skype.com/
Let me know if you have any questions...Andrew
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