Neil & Steve and Neil & Sam at the Pirate on the back side of Old La Honda
Sept 2009: Kai Schneider visits the CA Hellers
Sept 2009: Kai Schneider visits the CA Hellers
July 2010: Nagymama attends PAWMA (Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists)
I had a great day today with the Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists.
I started the day at 6:30am participating in a Danzan Ryu Movement class. This was followed by Contemporary Hula. My next class was a Lower Body Roots where we tried to connect with our pelvic bones working on longitudinal alignment.
After lunch I did Power Drumming and had a lot of fun. Loud noises always bother me, but the drumming got me in my guts. A very different kind of noise.
I then tried Cane the Ultimate Weapon. I gave up on that one.
My last activity was Acupuncture Happy Hour.
The whole day felt as if a yoke had been lifted off my shoulders.
July 2010
Blueberry picking
Adam dancing at Ramah: Machon and Nivonim Dance Kishroniyah
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July 2010: Snowbird, UT (CRA Conference)
Hanging out with David & Andrew
Hiking with David & Deborah
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June 2010
Ilana and friends at Walden Pond
June 2010: "Choosing to Climb" is the title of Nagypapa's life story, the feature article in the July/August Issue of Technology Review, online. See also an additional picture story.
June 2010: "Choosing to Climb" is the title of Nagypapa's life story, the feature article in the July/August Issue of Technology Review, online. See also an additional picture story.
The Hellers' apple strudel recipe:
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medium, or
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May 2010
Adam on visual vocabulary day.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Rip's Big Bowl Breakfast: raw oats, grape nuts, toasted wheat & flax seed, soluble fiber, plant proteins, raisins, walnuts, ground flax seed, blueberries, banana, grapefruit, mango
May 2010
Happy 80th Birthday Nagymama!
I'm pretty intrigued by the Elliptigo stand-up bike.
I tried it on 5/17/2010 with Bryan Pate and ordered one for July delivery.
April 2010
Camp Nagymama: April 2010
Do I look like a Californian?
We went to lunch.
Retes!
Spring 2010, 86th birthday climb official photo!
Winter/Spring 2010: A familiar face spotted at the Canyon Crest Academy, Del Mar Heights, CA. The event was a Booster Rally and sponsor thank you for this year’s First Robotics and First Tech Challenge teams. A successful Rookie Year for both teams.
Shari and her gymnastics teammates were written up in the local paper: Locals Represent 10.0 Club Well (PDF)
14 March 2010: PBDC
(Prozdor's Best Dance Crew): Adam danced with Nilhav at the Boston's annual Israel Folkdance Festival. Naomi and Leslie also danced, all with different crews.
Happy Birthday Neil! The cake looks yummy (Mmmm ... chocolate). From the looks of your cake, in Israel you'd be preparing for your Bar Mitzvah.
Kathy recently visited her step-grandmother, Erich's widow Adrie where she obtained this photo of the brothers Biss: Standing are Norbert (Weiss), Karl (Kathy's great-grandfather), and Siggi (Sigmund); sitting on the right seems to be Joseph Nathan (Grandpa's father).
Kathy also sends the biking photo and writes, "In this brilliant 1937 photo of my grandfather and Leo on Leo's motorbike, with their skis strapped on to the side, the boys are off on an expedition! Leo and my grandfather were great mates before the war (both were handbag makers) well before he got together with Herta!"
Deb played the simple child: Hi.
March 2010: Birthday fruit cake for Nagypapa and the main course.
February 2010: Steve as the voice of Haman, husband of Zeresh
December 2010: Deb's book group was featured in an article in the local paper.
Click the triangle to play, and the lower right icon for full screen.
October 2009
Nat, Steve, Neil, & Steve rode the Riverbank Cheese & Wine Century
From Congregation Beth Jacob, Redwood City, CA
Greetings! We will celebrate Simchat Torah in our typically raucous fashion this Saturday evening, October 10, starting at 7:00 p.m. These festivities are appropriate for all ages. The merriment continues on Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. with Simchat Torah services accompanied by spontaneous song and dance. It is a unique piece of our annual ritual calendar, and we urge you to come check it out if you have never attended this service before. We will honor David Smilovitz as Hatan Torah and George Heller as Hatan B'reishit.
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September 2009
Ilana glows as she returns trimuphantly from her longest ride to date, which Shari captured on video.
Shari's first day of unicycle practice.
September 2009
Three generations of Heller men, then and now: Nagypapa, Neil, & Sam. Who's your daddy?
September 2009
Nagypapa at the cold soup party.
9/8: Ilana learning to ride a unicycle (video: .mov & .m4v).
9/18: Ilana riding a unicycle (video: .mov & .m4v).
9/21: Ilana free-mouning her unicycle (video: .mov & .m4v).
June 2009
Steve's in Beijing, China again.
Neil began blogging.
Nagypapa donned his red coat and marched as part of his fiftieth MIT reunion.
Nina took Neil and Steve for a ride.
Ilana and Christalle ... a while ago
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April 09, Regionals
Nagypapa "operates" Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View CA. on May 23, 2009. The visit was part of a Memorial Service for Dick Delp, a docent at the CHM, arranged by Nagymama and Nagypapa. A longtime friend of the family, Dick was our teacher, mentor and role model whose immense knowledge of computers had greatly benefited the maintenance of the Hellers' computers' good health.
April/May 2009
A glowing Nagymama: Pura Vida!
Nagypapa received Congressional and State recognition (below).
Neil is blogging.
Steve Presented Alisa Laufer's Bat Mitzvah Gift
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know
Steve's colleague Matt recommended this web browser readability plugin.
A "Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition" and a personal letter "proud to honor your dedication to academic excellence and achievement in our schools" by Glen W. Thoman, Secretary of Education of the State of California, both dated April 26, 2009 were presented to Nagypapa at the Peninsula Temple Sholom religious school dedication of the new Holocaust Memorial Garden created by the seventh grade students. Nagypapa was one of three Holocaust Survivors honored this way at this special celebration.
April 2009
Steve in Sechuan Province: Leshan Giant Buddha Park. The kids often take travel pics doing handstands ... .
Steve in Singapore: Simon took me in his '65 MG for kopi (coffee with condensed milk), kopi-O (coffee black), and hong dao sah (red bean paste soup). Yum yum yum.
April 2009
17 April: Steve spoke at CBE: The Shoah's Influence on my Family
Nagypapa wrote this biography for his MIT 50th reunion.
Ilana took the plunge at MIT with BAD West (pics & videos).
26 April: At Congregation Beth Jacob, as Nagymama and Nagypapa were presented the Chesed Award, Neil spoke on Tikkun Olam as a Way of Life
My friend dd circulated this excellent list at Sun for opting out of physical mail you no longer want to receive: Abacus Opt Out - OptOutPrescreen - Catalog Choice - Ecological Mail - Eco Future
Whole Foods is accepting type 5 plastic (yogurt containers) for recycling through their Gimme 5 Program.
March 2009
At Eva's Bat Mitzvah
Hiking: Becca and Steve
Berlin: A couple of quite sharp Sun Campus ambassadors, Andrew McFarlane and Thomas Kruse, interviewed Steve at Sun's European Research Conference.
Honey sent me "The Hebrew Mamita" Vanessa Hidary (Def Poetry) - aka "You don't look Jewish"
Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah
March 2009
Deb & Ilana were in the Purim Shpiel ... again. Photos thanks to Marsha Martin.
Paul Friedman also took shpiel photos: Just click on http://paulfriedmanphotography.com/, go to "Proofing" and enter "shpiel2009" in the password.
Video of Ruach Aviv practicing for the 2009 Israel Folkdance Festival at MIT. Who's that chick in the audience so into the dancing?
March 2009
Happy 85th Birthday Nagypapa!!!
What I have learned (video, 2.3MB)
Some words about the Holocaust (video, 6.9MB)
My Bar Mitzvahs were simple affairs (video, 2.7MB)
Nagypapa climbs the wall almost every week, but I don't usually get to watch. In the second photo we can see him as he scampered up the wall ... with determination.
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Feb 2009
Nina visited her future Alma Mater: Cal!
Adam & Evan are in a Boston Globe Article
Steve wrapped as part of the Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs World-Wide Wrap
Shari helped advertise for her gym: 10.0 Academy
My friend Roger is restoring has dad Gerald's music
The dJ Remodeling Project continues ...
3 Jan 09: Nisha & Prabhakar wed alongside Divakar, Gita, and Arvind
Jan 09: Judy neni
Nov 07: Alyssa & Danny
Let's Play Pretend video (about the Israeli/Palestinian situation)
Brian Detlefs onstage in
UMiami Theater "Run Away with Me"
December 2008
Happy 2009 from Nagymama es Nagypapa!
Christmas supper at Sherman's Deli in Palm Springs
29 Dec: Ilana's directions for caring for Jimmy
December 2008
Camp Nagymama 2008 (more photos available)
Adam Sandler's Chanukah Song
Cowboy derydl song
Boogie Woogie Hannukah
December 2008
Cousin Eva visited Lompoc and Menlo Park
The Knitwits made apple strudel using the Strudel-Makers' Flow Chart
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December 2008
6 Dec 08: Shari in the RI Invitational Gym Meet
bars (0.8MB
& 2.1MB)
beam (2.2MB
& 5.8MB)
floor (3.4MB
& 9.1MB)
vault (0.3MB
& 0.9MB)
Shari's friend Kelly also does gymnastics (2 Nov 08)
bars (1MB
& 2.5MB)
beam (2.6MB
& 7MB)
floor (3.3MB
& 8.5MB)
vault (0.4MB
& 0.9MB)
6 Dec 08: Deb made Steve a geodesic cap.
The Neils came in for Alyssa's Bat Mitzvah. The cousins are in age order.
An old geek favorite: Mr. Ascii does the Macarena.
22 Nov 2008: Nina scores a GOAL!
Neil has been riding in late November:
Short finger ride on 27 Nov 08
Long finger ride on 28 Nov 08
Nagypapa in Iceland in 2006
Steve in Austin in 2008
A resemblance? ... a new family tradition?
Fall 2008: Ilana's Art
November 2008
Celebrating Sam's Birthday
Oct 2008: Joan, Burt, Grammy, Deb, & Stuart
2003 & 2008: Nagymama then and now
Election 2008
October 2008
4 October: Deb saw the CO Grands ... who look grand!
9 October: On Yom Kippur, Neil participated in a panel discussion of children of Holocaust survivors.
17 October: Shaving in a friend's sukkah.
October 2008
1 October: Yvonne, Rudi, Astrid, and Michael dining with Steve
5 October: Ilana, Shari, & Steve picked apples at Phil's Apples in Harvard MA. Phil took a break from pressing fresh macintosh cider to pose for a photo.
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Nagymama (looking young and thin) & the boys
28 September: Old friend Alex attended his 30th HS reunion in the general vicinity.
27 September: Neil & Steve rode up Page Mill Road, and down the backside of Old LaHonda, returning on 84. The photo was taken on the backside of OLH at the pirate skull. Neil commented, "42 miles, 3500 feet, and home in time to have breakfast with the family. Could it get any better than this?"
3 October: Demonstrating the secret ninja-biking technique taught by Neil-sensei last week at the Woodside Bakery for carrying delectables home: almond macaroons --- yum.
September 2008
dJ Remodel - Field tile going up ... that's the wavy stuff.
New dJ ride: 400cc, 35hp, 420lb, 50+mpg (actual, so far), 85+mph (so they say), Auto CVT, no clutch, no shifting (it is a "Scooter"). Fun and easy to ride!
Steve with High School friends Joel and Steve at their Arlington High School 25th Reunion in 2003.
Digging through some old papers, I stumbled across an unpublished very short "paper" I wrote in 1987, Exploiting the Generation Gap. You might enjoy it. Or not. I tried to publish it in CACM since they had published Lieberman's seminal GC paper, but they rejected it, and I gave up. Section 2.4 suggests combining a copying young space with a mark-and-sweep old space, now the basis for almost all modern generational garbage collectors. I don't know if there was an earlier publication with that idea (Ungar's 1984 paper, Generation scavenging: A non-disruptive high performance storage reclamation algorithm, doesn't quite get there: "Generation Scavenging ... reclaims old objects offline"). In any case, at least I can share it now.
August 2008: How Wonderful That: A D'var Torah for Parshat Eikev: At a temple meeting on 20 August 2008, Neil gave this Dvar Torah.
July 2008: Shari & Becca rode Sandy's hog.
An interesting blog: Half of Me
Nagymama wrote a note about collecting stuff.
Becca attended Camp Takodah.
Prof. Andrew attempted a 600K ride and lived to tell the story.
July 2008
Siegels in the Grand Canyon
Becca got a job at gym camp.
June 2008: Nina and Nagypapa cool in the pool.
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June 2008
Erika visited the Hub.
Michael & Astrid arrived.
June 2008
AB travel soccer: 2002-2008 (Becca's team, pics thanks to Kathy S)
(2005-2006 Season)
Tony Printezis showed his photos at Starbucks, at the Marketplace at Burlington, 84 Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA.
Check out this beautiful animation of a proof of Pythagoras' Theorem by Jim Morey. Here's another one (from this Wikipedia article).
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June 2008: Erika's Second Wedding: Temple Solel
1 June 2008: Leslie danced with Bustan Boston in NYC as part of the Israel Parade and celebration. Check out the first few seconds of this clip --- Leslie's in the last line of dancers near the middle.
1 June 2008: Nagypapa and Nagymama attended the Shalhevet 2008 Siyyum (Graduation) at the Holocaust Center of Northern California (HCNC) in San Francisco. They were the two Holocaust survivors who accompanied Shalhevet 2007 to Poland and to Israel.
My colleague David alerted me to this talk: John Pucher, "Cycling for Everyone: Key to Public and Political Support," keynote address at the 2007 National Bike Summit, League of American Bicyclists, Washington, DC, March 16, 2007. (video & slides)
8 May 2008: Nagypapa gave a talk about his Holocaust experiences during World War II in the Social Studies class of Mr. Roni Habib at Gunn High School in Palo Alto California.
20 May 2008 Nagypapa was interviewed by Adnan Alam, a student of Dr. Victoria Harrison's Holocaust Literature course at San Jose State University, as reported in Alam's paper, It's Possible and the corresponding presentation.
27-28 May 2008: (see image to left) Nagypapa gave two talks about his Holocaust experiences at Menlo Atherton High School in Atherton, California in the World Studies classes of Social Studies teacher Kai Lee-Hay. The multi media talk included the online use of the hellers.ws web space in the classroom and a large photographed poster showing his climbing a 20 foot rock wall on his 84th birthday. The top of the wall displays a four foot sign that reads �It�s Possible.�
10 May 2008: Becca attends her first USY Spring Convention as "Fox in Sox" as part of Suessy NERUSY.
14 May 2008: Becca was elected LUSY Freshman Representative.
18 May 2008: Our friend Don Quixoban debuted in Therater III's production of Man of La Mancha.
26 May 2008: dj remodel update: Master Bath/Shower
May 2008: At the 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration of Vera and Hy Burstyn, Linda read this message, sent to them by Nagypapa and Nagymama.
2 May 2008: A bunch of Thunkos gathered for lunch.
rlk took these pics
and this video and this video and this video and this video.
9 May 08: The Gearheadz (Lawrence HS Robotics Team) visited Sun.
28 April 2008. Nagypapa participated in the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony of the California State Assembly in Sacramento. Here he appears with his two interviewers, following the ceremony outside the California State Capitol building.
The California State Assembly designated the week of April 28�May 4, 2008 as California Holocaust Memorial Week. The ceremony was attended by Holocaust survivors from many of the Assembly districts of the State of California. Nagypapa was among the survivors honored on this occasion. His story, written by two students from Summit Preparatory Charter High School is featured on pages 7-8 (or 15-16, depending on how you count) of the 236 page volume prepared for the occasion telling the stories of the survivors attending the ceremony.
1 May 2008: Nagymama and Nagypapa were the featured guest speakers at UC Santa Cruz. Our host was Mari Basseri, one of the Shalhevet 2007 participants. The program, sponsored by UCSC Hillel, included personal stories by students, two short videos on partisans, and a speaker on art in the Concentration Camps. Our talks were followed by a roundtable discussion with extensive student participation. Approximately seventy people attended.
4 May 2008: Steve donned a particular yad t'fillin recently given to him by nagypapa. The t'fillin once belonged to Steve's namesake, nagypapa's brother Istvan, a martyr of the Holocaust. As far as I know, this is all that remains of Pista b�csi. This was the first time I wrapped my arm in this treasure, so I made a shechecheyanu. I'll have to ask nagypapa for another story about his brother.
Passover 5768
(from the CA gang ...) We took a break between seders and Launched 6 travel bugs. "Next year in ??? --- to Acton, Encinitas, Natick, San Carlos, Menlo Park, and Jerusalem!"
(from the Acton gang ...) We participated in our friends the Lovitz's seder by singing: Louie's Four Children.
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5 April 2008: Congratulations Erika on your Bat Mitzvah!!!
From generation to generation to generation ...
18 April 2008: [Our friend Peter Everett writes:]
I just picked up my official Boston Marathon number: 23744. It's real.
Tomorrow morning I'll be meeting Lance Armstrong for the final team
get-together. It has finally sunk in that I'm really going to do this.
I am going to run the 2008 Boston Marathon, all the way!
Partly it is a personal spiritual quest. Partly it is to support a worthy cause.
Please visit my fundraising page.
I am well below my fundraising goal, and appreciate all contributions
large and small. They will go to an organization that fights cancer from
a survivor-oriented perspective that I appreciate. The web site makes
contributing secure and simple.
If you are interested, you can track my progress, thanks to an electronic
tracking chip in my shoe, at http://www.bostonmarathon.org .
29 March 2008: Becca is starting AB Spring Soccer: team meeting.
23 March 2008: Ilana and Deb participated in our Fifth Purim Shpiel.
Photos by Paul Friedman, our local favorite professional. Click on the "Proofing" section, and enter password shpiel08.
22 March 2008: Heidi sent me info on this Large Fella on a Bike.
20 March 2008: Our friend Katie died on a college trip abroad. We extend our sincerest condolences to Pat, Jamie, and Charlie.
March 2008
(Little) Eva & Neil's Birthday Dinner
(Big) Eva plays Iris in Sunnyville.
10 March: G. Truman Hunter, Nagypapa's longtime friend and mentor passed away. Nagypapa remembers him as an early missionary who brought computer education to all who could be reached. He was a giant among men, a friend, a mentor, and a role model for many years. His memory will continue to be a blessing.
1990: friend Alex on Lake Powell
Feb/March 2008: Eva rules the San Carlos Courts!
29 February - 9 March: Becca played the thespian Susan in the sold out show High School Musical which ran for six sold out shows.
2 March: Our friend Myrna was serenaded (with backup) by her husband Keith in celebration of her fiftieth. Steve crossed swords with Peter the Red.
The
Sirens of the
PA YMCA swimming pool:
Nagymama and friends
Titan of the
PA YMCA climbing wall:
Happy 84th Birthday Nagypapa
A coincidence? I'm not going to tell you. Okay okay I'll tell you (with apologies to Dan Gutman, author of Ilana's favorite series,
My Weird School). Having recently read
Slaughterhouse-five,
Steve's reading
The Sirens of Titan.
Times have changed at MIT: Boston Herald: Brains and Beauty. Here's the calendar web page.
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February 2008
18 Feb: Ilana & Shari took a trapeze class with some friends
2 Feb: Dottie Hilbert was a professional photographer in Acton MA, and we used her services regularly. Sadly, Dottie died.
4 Feb: Danielle Shives, a blind froshling at Frostburg State University majoring in elementary education, just earned her black belt in Tae Kwon Do with the help of Ken Fizer, the student of my friend Ted Hillson, who leads SCTKD.
22 February 2008: A geek I met, Greg, pointed me to xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. "Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)." Thanks Greg!
January 2008
Drama Night and Crazy Hair Day in Erika's world
Yadeinu Winter 2008 (see page two): summary of and reference to the recent Common Ties article "The Top of the Wall" by nagypapa.
My friend Margaret referred me to me an article by Stanford Professor Carol Dweck, published in Scientific American in December 2007: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids. Dweck also wrote the book Mindset which was recently recommended to me by Laura's mom. Both the article and the book are excellent, as is the March 2007 New York Magazine article, The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids.
Recommended by my friend Anne and also Laura's mom, I finally finished a couple of books by Haim Ginott, Teacher & Child and the classic Between Parent and Child. Marcy loves them too.
Toscanini's, a Cambridge institution, is struggling, but they have reopened. I recommend this Amazon Short: Ice Cream Man: 25 Years at Toscanini's, which you can download for free.
Wally sent me: YouTube - Leonard Nimoy: The Origin of Spock's Greeting
Winter 2008 Holiday and New Year Stuff:
- Happy 2008! Eva sent me
the video: Love 2008,
Ilana Yahav's Sand Art
(more videos)
- HEMA, a Dutch department store has a cool product page, at least for a while.
- YouTube - Chinese Food On Christmas
December 2007
Wendy's Hanukkah House
The Shalhevet 2008 flyer includes a picture of Nagymama and Nagypapa walking in the Majdanek Concentration Camp during their Shalhevet 2007 trip in March 2007.
A Non Sequitur cartoon by Wiley concerning techniques for remembering the Holocaust is posted here.
5 Dec: My colleague Tim, in an attempt to help me find interesting facts about the number 17, pointed me to these curios facts about numbers. Gita and Arvind may know why I was doing this research.
November 2007
Tony Printezis is showing his photos at a couple of different Starbucks in November 2007 and in April 2008.
Becca has joined the cast of her school's production of High School Musical to be put on in the spring of 2008.
Check out Karen's Glass & Jewelry page.
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13 October 2007: Steve had the pleasure of watching Mr. Kim preside over a class and a black-belt test at Don Massaro's studio in Port Jefferson, Long Island. It was also a pleasure to see old friends: Pete Michaelson and Jerry Orenstein. Mr. Kim travels east regularly to visit TCS schools.
October 2007
6 Oct: Three generations of Hellers read Torah at Adam's Bar Mitzvah.
Happy Birthday Nina!!!
Nagypapa wrote --- Hatred ... A Brief Response
31 Oct: Rosanna composed and recorded a Spooky Tune.
As you listen, you may wish to carve your cyber-pumpkin.
Nagypapa taught a class at the Walter Johnson HS in Montgomery County Maryland during the spring of 1961. Forty-four years later,
nagypapa was acknowledged as having introduced CMU Dean & Computer Science Professor Mary Shaw to computers.
International Business Machines (IBM) employee named George Heller from the Washington area participated in an after-school program which taught students about computers; he arranged for the students to visit an IBM facility and run a program on an IBM 709 computer. This was Shaw's introduction to computers.
1 Tishri 5768:
שנה טובה
We wish you a sweet year, filled with Health, Joy, Love, and Peace. Happy 5768!
25 August 2007: Shari & Becca were called to the torah for the first time as B'not Mitzvah.
11 August 2007: Steve rode his bike to Camp Takodah via 119 with friends Kevin and Ron to pick up Becca. We rode 59.8 miles at a pace of 16.2 mph, climbing 2500' & descending 1600'.
6 August 2007: Gus posted a couple of videos of his art: mobile & watercolor
8 September 2007: Acharai! Steve presented the Brotherhood gift to Jacob Laufer at his Bar Mitzvah.
June - July 07: On the occasion of Grammy and Burt's Golden Anniversary,
we visited Oregon.
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June 2007
Erika had a recital.
Steve dj turned fifty. Congratulations!
Sam wrote a Middle School Graduation Speech.
Grandma Evelyn Siegel passed away.
18 May 2007: At the Dataflow to Synthesis Retrospective (Arvind@60), Steve led the singing of: We'll Forever Return.
22 May 2007: Karen was granted a patent with her friend Maria Uspenski for an Infuser Tea Pot. See Maria's business: The Tea Spot, based in Boulder.
1 May 2007: Puht Dek opened a Tae Kwon Do School in Omaha.
May 2007: The CA gang hit Disney
Daniel Biss is running for State Representative in the 17th district of Illinois, encompassing parts of the northern Chicago suburbs of Skokie, Evanston, Wilmette, Morton Grove, Glenview, Winnetka, Northbrook, and Northfield. You can support his campaign.
5-19 March: Nagymama and Nagypapa accompanied the Shalhevet 2007 project to Poland and to Israel as the two Holocaust survivors.
15 April 2007. Nagypapa and Nagymama were honored at Congregation Emanu El of San Francisco at the Yom Hashoah V'Hagevurah celebration. Shalhevet 2007 participant Lauren Michaels read a poem "For George and Iby" she wrote after visiting Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as part of the program.
16 April 2007: Nagypapa attended a special session of the California State Assembly in Sacramento, in observance of California Holocaust Memorial Week, April 16-22, 2007. He was seated, with other Holocaust survivors, as a guest of the state legislators on the Assembly floor, while the Assembly passed a special resolution commemorating the Holocaust.
29 April 2007: Nagypapa and Nagymama were the featured speakers of the plenary opening session of the Day of Learning 2007, an annual event of the Holocaust Center of Northern California in San Francisco.
20 May 2007: Nagymama and Nagypapa passed the torch at Shalhevet Graduation.
1 July 2007: "Passing the Shalhevet Torch," was published in the July/August 2007 issue of The Voice, the monthly newsletter of Temple Beth Jacob . See page 7.
July 07 Nagymama and Nagypapa were featured in two articles in the Summer 2007 issue of Yadeinu, (Hebrew for: our hands), the latest newsletter of the Holocaust Center of Northern California. A report of the �Day of Learning� on April 20, 2007, and a report on the Shalhevet 2007 project. The articles include quotes from both Nagymama and Nagypapa A large photograph shows Nagypapa holding up a four foot banner with the inscription �Its Possible.� A highlighted box quotes Nagypapa: �The one thing no one can ever take from you is your education: never forget that."
3 August 2007: Nagypapa's article, "The Top of the Wall" was published on the interactive story blog Common Ties. More stories by and about Nagypapa can be found in his online memoirs: On Borrowed Time.
12 August 2007: Nagypapa invited the Shalhevet graduates to a Strudel Party, and subsequently composed the story: The Strudel Party.
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Karen sent a pointer to JibJab Matzah.
Rav Mintz sent a pointer to Manischewitzville, a Passover video.
Also check out these funny Jewish musical slide shows:
Bad Attitude on Yom Kippur &
The Fast Bris
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3 March 2007: Nagypapa had a second bar mitzvah.
Jerry Callen has a Thunko page.
14 March 07: Becca and Steve attended a RJ Grey program called Project Wellness. Psychologist Dr. Rob Smith spoke about "How to perform your best under pressure" citing a study that found praising effort better than praising ability as described in the New York Magazine Article by Stanford professor Carol Dweck: The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids, which Steve found extremely interesting and compelling.
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| 3: Chef Nagypapa You Tube Strudel Video
10: We attended a terriffic concert by Renee Brachfeld and Mark Novak, two Jewish Story Tellers. 17: Daniel and Karin hosted Nagypapa, Nagymama, and Steve and served Almond & Carrot Cake 21: Steve's friend Ned Resnikoff is featured 3:35 into the preview you can find on the Boston Cyberarts Festival. He's created some cyber art for Erev Shel Shoshanim. |
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Nagypapa taught Sam & Eva to make strudel
Winter 2006-2007: 729 Passiflora Remodel
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| Crystal Anniversary | December 2006: NYC Trip |
Rosanna alerted me to an interesting geek phenomenon: Solving the Rubik's Cube Blindfolded! (Speedcubing Web Site)
Rosanna alerted me to an interesting social phenomenon: Free Hugs (video) and articles: Wikipedia and Sydney Morning Herald
Martial Arts or Marital Arts?: Master Po Tang Soo Do Video thanks to Mark
25 November 2006: Sam's Bar Mitzvah
November 2006: Becca wrote a Short Story: The End.
Dec 06: Nagypapa and Nagymama remember and honor Rabbi Erwin Zimet z'l and Lilli Zimet.
Fall 06: Apple Picking
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Erika's Camp Nagymama Photos for 2006 (CN 2005)
10/9/06: Steve dJ is quoted in a North County Times article: Blaze engulfs Encinitas home
Sixty years have passed since Floyd Dade, Jr., an American soldiers, helped liberated the Mauthausen and Gunskirchen Concentration camps in Austria. Floyd dedicated his life to reminding people of the time when he saw the results of man�s inhumanity to man.
Surrounded in his last days by Edris, his wife of 42 years, Floyd Dade passed away peacefully on September 27, 2006 in San Francisco, CA. May the example of his life and the inspiration of his memory be for a blessing for us all.
September 2006: Karin & Daniel visited Acton.
In back: Daniel, Karin, Steve, Debbie
In front: Becca, Ilana, Shari
Already left for soccer practice: Naomi, Adam, Leslie
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| After his dad had a close encounter of the racoon kind on an early morning ride, Sam designed him a new bicycle helmet. | The Neils visited MA. Naomi and Neil were quoted in a Boston Globe article on the fall of the planet Pluto (cached copy). | Nagypapa and Nagymama were interviewed for the Holocaust Oral History Project. |
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| 14 May 2006: Nagymama & Nagypapa visit Boston | ||
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| Brunch with G. Grandma Siegel | The Gang | Kids and kids at heart |
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24 April 2006: Holocaust survivors gathered in Sacramento CA. State Representative Rebecca Cohn and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger participated.
Nagymama and Nagypapa participated in the 2006 California Holocaust Memorial Week program. Rebecca Cohn's office published a book of survivor stories.
Nagypapa was interviewed by Jeff Weiss.
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| 29 April 2006
Adam & Naomi joined Ilana in watching Becca's soccer game. |
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| 12 March 2006
CBE Purim Shpiel | A seasonal farce
Howard led us in singing Paul took the photos | ||
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| Howard Worona's Parody Songs:
Hey Man - Haman and the Rope Real High Haman had a Gallows - The Shu-Shan Blues |
Local professional photographer
Paul Friedman took these and other amazing photos. | ||
| 6 August 2005: Ilana's Birthday Party | |||
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| Ilana's Party
Monkey crafts, swimming, and cake She's Monkey Seven! | |||
Becca's class developed the "Handshake Project" as reported in:
