Thomas My grandfather had always told me to if you don’t pray 3 times a day your relationship with god will not be good. My parents had died in a fire when I was 6. But the one of the things i remember about the is that they they said that I should move to Cleveland. I tried to apply to some of the major colleges in Cleveland but I could not get into any of them so I applied to Ohio state. I Got into Ohio State I got a my major in regionalism and now I’m a rabbi at one of the major synagogues
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The holidays are fast approaching and I can’t believe it. The leaves have changed colors and are falling rapidly off the trees. It seems like I looked and blinked and an entire year just just flew by‚ and my now little girl is not so little anymore. I’ve been going through photos of past Christmases and I can see the growth that has taken place throughout the year. As most of you know‚ I grew up in the Caribbean and I never experienced snow until we moved to the United States. Christmas for us meant
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When I was seven years old and almost a half my parents told me that my family was going to pack up everything‚ leave our home‚ our livelihood‚ and move to Idaho. I was young but I knew I was going to miss Albuquerque. I was going to miss the plump quails who walked quickly with their babies toddling behind in a straight line and the skinny‚ all leg‚ roadrunners who would sprint across the roads. I was going to miss my little Crocodile Smile green room. I had chosen the paint color‚ I had watched
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Growing up I attended private Catholic schools and was surrounded by hundreds of loving and devoted Catholics. As a very young child‚ I remember walking to church with my family every Sunday morning and going to mass‚ or we went to church events and dinners with each other and our friends. However‚ as I grew older we moved from California to Alabama and my faith changed. We still went to Church but less frequently and it felt less like a family reunion where God greeted us all. My faith and opinion
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plus I was not doing so well in school. Back then school was not a priority of mine. Not doing well in school seemed normal to me‚ because most of my my classmates were not doing so well either. Later on I realized it wasn’t right for me to throw away what my parents worked so hard to give me: an education. I told myself to keep trying hard‚ so that I wouldn’t fail a grade. I was determined to have the better life my parents wanted me to have. It wasn’t until I got to high school that
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For most of my childhood‚ I had lived in the town of Aldershot‚ also known as the home of the British Army. Despite Aldershot being in the south of England and only about forty miles away from London‚ it wasn’t exactly a dream town everyone wanted live in‚ although I can remember Aldershot’s transition throughout the years and how it has changed since then. My family and I had moved to Aldershot when I was about four‚ living in a small house with only three rooms‚ with my parents working at a nearby
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After filing a motion against him‚ I let my lawyer do his job. Because he was a close friend he extended his normal duties and gave it all he could to help me win. Since Shaq lived in Miami‚ I had to get another lawyer to file another motion because we had to be in his jurisdiction. I flew to Miami and we sat with a mediator for 8 hours trying to come up with a solution. Shaq did not show he must of thought it was not that important to take time out of his life. Although we were there for a serious
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A few months ago‚ I packed up my mid-western life and moved to the east coast to begin a new job in a town I had never heard of with nobody to call a friend. What I left behind was my family‚ my friends‚ my favorite coffee shop‚ and my yoga studio. This studio was my safe space. It had big open windows with the best kind of morning light that fell in pockets over a beautiful‚ old‚ wooden floor. My favorite thing to do on a Saturday morning was unroll my mat on one of those sunny pockets and listen
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Imagine being seven and in a foreign country seeing all types of new things. This is what I experienced when I went to Yemen in 2007. It was a world different from my own‚ but little did I know it would change my life. Seeing things from a different perspective really does change your view on the world. Learning to understand that not everyone sees things the same way you do can be difficult sometimes‚ but definitely not impossible.
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Lunch was over and students were filing into the classroom. As soon as we got inside the atmosphere felt really uncomfortable. I looked to the second row of desks and saw Katrina‚ a long-time friend‚ digging through her desk‚ Mrs. Nakigawa‚ our homeroom teacher‚ looking over her shoulder with concern. “…but‚ it was here before P.E hour‚ I know it was. My mom reminded me to take it off before I left this morning!” It had been a minute or so since everyone had realized something was genuinely wrong
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