Sydney’s Heroes
“Please,” my children begged. “Turn off the menorah. Our house is going to become a target,” Sorella recalled in a tearful interview with Sky News.
The family had just returned from the Chanukah event at Bondi Beach hosted by Chabad with over 1000 people in attendance. They had managed to escape physically unharmed, but were deeply traumatized after witnessing the massacre that claimed 15 lives and left dozens more wounded.
A Lesson from Scooter Braun
At a recent StandWithUs Dinner, entrepreneur and record executive Scooter Braun shared a lesson he had learned from his grandparents, survivors of Auschwitz and Dachau: “Never to be afraid again.”
He turned to his three young children, aged 5-8, seated in the audience, and asked, “What do I teach you?”
Without hesitation, his children shouted in unison, “Ich bin a Yiddish Keend” (i.e., I am a Jewish child).
Preserve & Grow
Business owners and entrepreneurs are often faced with the challenge of preserving their capital and maintaining the core principles of their enterprise while investing in growth and developing their business or organization.
In life, it is important to learn, explore, expand our circle of friends and positively influence the world around us. However, at the same time, how do we avoid the risk of forgetting our core values and connection to our identity while being exposed to other cultures and interacting with others?
Never Give Up
A story is told of the holy Maggid of Mezritch (1704-1772). Once, his young son came running to him in tears. The Maggid comforted him and asked him why he was crying. The child began to explain that he had been playing a game of hide-and-seek with his friends but he hid so well that he was never found.
“So why are you crying, didn't you play really well?", asked the Maggid.