Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Day 100. A small poem sent your way from this aching heart. Images are from my visit to the Jewish Heritage Museum earlier this month. Horrific memories kept for us, because those humans who lived them are long dead. Our heritage is much more than just massacres and pogroms, but the ratio sucks. There’s a lot. And people keep angling for more. No more. We want to be here. Around 15 million in a world of over 8 billion. Not too much space to ask for… We want this war over. No more innocent lives lost. Not Palestinians, not Israelis, not ANYONE! If you also want this war over- then say it with me- to anyone who will listen and anywhere your voice can reach: Hamas- return all the hostages and surrender. Bring them all home. Terrorists spend their energy terrorizing, but this world was built for LOVE. Enough ❤️🩹 Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Let there be more light than darkness. Let there be more hope than fear. Let there be more dreams than regrets. Let us keep shining and exclaiming L’Chayim! To Life! To Joy! To Beauty! Am Yisrael Chai 💙💙💙
Let there be more light than darkness. Let there be more hope than fear. Let there be more dreams than regrets. Let us keep shining and exclaiming L’Chayim! To Life! To Joy! To Beauty! Am Yisrael Chai 💙💙💙
Love to you, and many miracles your way! Oh and IF you ever have a day or two when you’re without a menorah- I highly suggest the good ole’ bananakah method. Works every time and makes a great sparkler sound when it burns out…🕯️🕎💙🎶🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
Love to you, and many miracles your way! Oh and IF you ever have a day or two when you’re without a menorah- I highly suggest the good ole’ bananakah method. Works every time and makes a great sparkler sound when it burns out…🕯️🕎💙🎶🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
Love to you, and many miracles your way! Oh and IF you ever have a day or two when you’re without a menorah- I highly suggest the good ole’ bananakah method. Works every time and makes a great sparkler sound when it burns out…🕯️🕎💙🎶🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
Love to you, and many miracles your way! Oh and IF you ever have a day or two when you’re without a menorah- I highly suggest the good ole’ bananakah method. Works every time and makes a great sparkler sound when it burns out…🕯️🕎💙🎶🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
Happy New Year friends. I hope with all my heart that this is a better year. Please, 2024, step on up and bring us much needed peace, friendship, wisdom, compassion, tolerance, nuance, multitudes, magic, and of course, art and music. Music saves me every day. To get to spend new year with the people I love and with @billyjoel who is as warm and welcoming as he is brilliant- was just beyond. I will never forget it. I only wish my papa was alive to be there-to hug, and dance, and freak out with. But I am so grateful for all the good and the love and the time given. I know better days are ahead. I know wise words from the time of King Solomon are still true- “This, too, shall pass”. I hope with all my heart that the hostages return to their families and can have peace and healing after these harrowing and brutal months of being stolen away. I wait and will continue to wait. And remember. And pray. I hope that a new safety and peace can be found in a world that has been brutally torn. I hope that leaders worthy of us can come and lead us to peace. I hope our higher selves rise up and give us strength and guidance. This planet is built for healing. Everything heals with time. I remember the ones I miss. I remember the ones I lost. I remember the ones I have. I await those I’m yet to meet on this path. I love this world so much. And I love you. Stay strong, hopeful, healthy and brave. And thank you for being here. May we all get to do some good in the new year… ❤️🩹💙🕯️🎶
As always thank you to the incredible @shervinfoto for the memories and the love and the chocolate 🙌📷
Happy New Year 👊
Happy New Year friends. I hope with all my heart that this is a better year. Please, 2024, step on up and bring us much needed peace, friendship, wisdom, compassion, tolerance, nuance, multitudes, magic, and of course, art and music. Music saves me every day. To get to spend new year with the people I love and with @billyjoel who is as warm and welcoming as he is brilliant- was just beyond. I will never forget it. I only wish my papa was alive to be there-to hug, and dance, and freak out with. But I am so grateful for all the good and the love and the time given. I know better days are ahead. I know wise words from the time of King Solomon are still true- “This, too, shall pass”. I hope with all my heart that the hostages return to their families and can have peace and healing after these harrowing and brutal months of being stolen away. I wait and will continue to wait. And remember. And pray. I hope that a new safety and peace can be found in a world that has been brutally torn. I hope that leaders worthy of us can come and lead us to peace. I hope our higher selves rise up and give us strength and guidance. This planet is built for healing. Everything heals with time. I remember the ones I miss. I remember the ones I lost. I remember the ones I have. I await those I’m yet to meet on this path. I love this world so much. And I love you. Stay strong, hopeful, healthy and brave. And thank you for being here. May we all get to do some good in the new year… ❤️🩹💙🕯️🎶
As always thank you to the incredible @shervinfoto for the memories and the love and the chocolate 🙌📷
Happy New Year 👊
Happy New Year friends. I hope with all my heart that this is a better year. Please, 2024, step on up and bring us much needed peace, friendship, wisdom, compassion, tolerance, nuance, multitudes, magic, and of course, art and music. Music saves me every day. To get to spend new year with the people I love and with @billyjoel who is as warm and welcoming as he is brilliant- was just beyond. I will never forget it. I only wish my papa was alive to be there-to hug, and dance, and freak out with. But I am so grateful for all the good and the love and the time given. I know better days are ahead. I know wise words from the time of King Solomon are still true- “This, too, shall pass”. I hope with all my heart that the hostages return to their families and can have peace and healing after these harrowing and brutal months of being stolen away. I wait and will continue to wait. And remember. And pray. I hope that a new safety and peace can be found in a world that has been brutally torn. I hope that leaders worthy of us can come and lead us to peace. I hope our higher selves rise up and give us strength and guidance. This planet is built for healing. Everything heals with time. I remember the ones I miss. I remember the ones I lost. I remember the ones I have. I await those I’m yet to meet on this path. I love this world so much. And I love you. Stay strong, hopeful, healthy and brave. And thank you for being here. May we all get to do some good in the new year… ❤️🩹💙🕯️🎶
As always thank you to the incredible @shervinfoto for the memories and the love and the chocolate 🙌📷
Happy New Year 👊
Happy New Year friends. I hope with all my heart that this is a better year. Please, 2024, step on up and bring us much needed peace, friendship, wisdom, compassion, tolerance, nuance, multitudes, magic, and of course, art and music. Music saves me every day. To get to spend new year with the people I love and with @billyjoel who is as warm and welcoming as he is brilliant- was just beyond. I will never forget it. I only wish my papa was alive to be there-to hug, and dance, and freak out with. But I am so grateful for all the good and the love and the time given. I know better days are ahead. I know wise words from the time of King Solomon are still true- “This, too, shall pass”. I hope with all my heart that the hostages return to their families and can have peace and healing after these harrowing and brutal months of being stolen away. I wait and will continue to wait. And remember. And pray. I hope that a new safety and peace can be found in a world that has been brutally torn. I hope that leaders worthy of us can come and lead us to peace. I hope our higher selves rise up and give us strength and guidance. This planet is built for healing. Everything heals with time. I remember the ones I miss. I remember the ones I lost. I remember the ones I have. I await those I’m yet to meet on this path. I love this world so much. And I love you. Stay strong, hopeful, healthy and brave. And thank you for being here. May we all get to do some good in the new year… ❤️🩹💙🕯️🎶
As always thank you to the incredible @shervinfoto for the memories and the love and the chocolate 🙌📷
Happy New Year 👊
Today we remember. There are still teachers of what went on in the Holocaust. Not as many of them still with us, but thankfully- enough to carry us on their shoulders into this new painful moment. Only they can teach us to feel and think from a place which we will hopefully never know ourselves. We’ll hopefully never know it again as a nation. Is that the prayer? That we want to remember yet never truly understand… ? I am forever changed. On October 7th I understood new things. And I don’t want it to come any closer. This ancient yet new in my life in New York hatred of Jews and Israelis on a level that can only be achieved through dehumanization, accusations, anger and scapegoating, paranoia… This level of lying and harassing, in person and online- just to kick more Jews down. I see it. So clearly. When we get lost- we turn to our teachers. And so, tomorrow, we’ll read from one of our teachers- Elie Wiesel, who suffered tremendously, and then wrote and shared of his pain. You can go in person or join online and we’ll read some texts from his tragic book “Night”. I haven’t been able to read my portion without crying. I’m practicing. But it’s just too much. All of it. In the scroll I include some other teachers of the Holocaust and life. The last slide is a book written by my closest teacher of the Shoah- Sam, who not only taught me about the dangers of prejudice, but also along with his wife Sonia, gifted me my music education. I don’t want to let him down. I don’t want US to let him down. I don’t want the world to let him down. So much of what’s happening now is familiar to him… I want the story to go a different way this time. We owe it to our children. We owe it to the survivors. And most of all- we owe it to all those who didn’t…
Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Today we remember. There are still teachers of what went on in the Holocaust. Not as many of them still with us, but thankfully- enough to carry us on their shoulders into this new painful moment. Only they can teach us to feel and think from a place which we will hopefully never know ourselves. We’ll hopefully never know it again as a nation. Is that the prayer? That we want to remember yet never truly understand… ? I am forever changed. On October 7th I understood new things. And I don’t want it to come any closer. This ancient yet new in my life in New York hatred of Jews and Israelis on a level that can only be achieved through dehumanization, accusations, anger and scapegoating, paranoia… This level of lying and harassing, in person and online- just to kick more Jews down. I see it. So clearly. When we get lost- we turn to our teachers. And so, tomorrow, we’ll read from one of our teachers- Elie Wiesel, who suffered tremendously, and then wrote and shared of his pain. You can go in person or join online and we’ll read some texts from his tragic book “Night”. I haven’t been able to read my portion without crying. I’m practicing. But it’s just too much. All of it. In the scroll I include some other teachers of the Holocaust and life. The last slide is a book written by my closest teacher of the Shoah- Sam, who not only taught me about the dangers of prejudice, but also along with his wife Sonia, gifted me my music education. I don’t want to let him down. I don’t want US to let him down. I don’t want the world to let him down. So much of what’s happening now is familiar to him… I want the story to go a different way this time. We owe it to our children. We owe it to the survivors. And most of all- we owe it to all those who didn’t…
Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Today we remember. There are still teachers of what went on in the Holocaust. Not as many of them still with us, but thankfully- enough to carry us on their shoulders into this new painful moment. Only they can teach us to feel and think from a place which we will hopefully never know ourselves. We’ll hopefully never know it again as a nation. Is that the prayer? That we want to remember yet never truly understand… ? I am forever changed. On October 7th I understood new things. And I don’t want it to come any closer. This ancient yet new in my life in New York hatred of Jews and Israelis on a level that can only be achieved through dehumanization, accusations, anger and scapegoating, paranoia… This level of lying and harassing, in person and online- just to kick more Jews down. I see it. So clearly. When we get lost- we turn to our teachers. And so, tomorrow, we’ll read from one of our teachers- Elie Wiesel, who suffered tremendously, and then wrote and shared of his pain. You can go in person or join online and we’ll read some texts from his tragic book “Night”. I haven’t been able to read my portion without crying. I’m practicing. But it’s just too much. All of it. In the scroll I include some other teachers of the Holocaust and life. The last slide is a book written by my closest teacher of the Shoah- Sam, who not only taught me about the dangers of prejudice, but also along with his wife Sonia, gifted me my music education. I don’t want to let him down. I don’t want US to let him down. I don’t want the world to let him down. So much of what’s happening now is familiar to him… I want the story to go a different way this time. We owe it to our children. We owe it to the survivors. And most of all- we owe it to all those who didn’t…
Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Today we remember. There are still teachers of what went on in the Holocaust. Not as many of them still with us, but thankfully- enough to carry us on their shoulders into this new painful moment. Only they can teach us to feel and think from a place which we will hopefully never know ourselves. We’ll hopefully never know it again as a nation. Is that the prayer? That we want to remember yet never truly understand… ? I am forever changed. On October 7th I understood new things. And I don’t want it to come any closer. This ancient yet new in my life in New York hatred of Jews and Israelis on a level that can only be achieved through dehumanization, accusations, anger and scapegoating, paranoia… This level of lying and harassing, in person and online- just to kick more Jews down. I see it. So clearly. When we get lost- we turn to our teachers. And so, tomorrow, we’ll read from one of our teachers- Elie Wiesel, who suffered tremendously, and then wrote and shared of his pain. You can go in person or join online and we’ll read some texts from his tragic book “Night”. I haven’t been able to read my portion without crying. I’m practicing. But it’s just too much. All of it. In the scroll I include some other teachers of the Holocaust and life. The last slide is a book written by my closest teacher of the Shoah- Sam, who not only taught me about the dangers of prejudice, but also along with his wife Sonia, gifted me my music education. I don’t want to let him down. I don’t want US to let him down. I don’t want the world to let him down. So much of what’s happening now is familiar to him… I want the story to go a different way this time. We owe it to our children. We owe it to the survivors. And most of all- we owe it to all those who didn’t…
Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Today we remember. There are still teachers of what went on in the Holocaust. Not as many of them still with us, but thankfully- enough to carry us on their shoulders into this new painful moment. Only they can teach us to feel and think from a place which we will hopefully never know ourselves. We’ll hopefully never know it again as a nation. Is that the prayer? That we want to remember yet never truly understand… ? I am forever changed. On October 7th I understood new things. And I don’t want it to come any closer. This ancient yet new in my life in New York hatred of Jews and Israelis on a level that can only be achieved through dehumanization, accusations, anger and scapegoating, paranoia… This level of lying and harassing, in person and online- just to kick more Jews down. I see it. So clearly. When we get lost- we turn to our teachers. And so, tomorrow, we’ll read from one of our teachers- Elie Wiesel, who suffered tremendously, and then wrote and shared of his pain. You can go in person or join online and we’ll read some texts from his tragic book “Night”. I haven’t been able to read my portion without crying. I’m practicing. But it’s just too much. All of it. In the scroll I include some other teachers of the Holocaust and life. The last slide is a book written by my closest teacher of the Shoah- Sam, who not only taught me about the dangers of prejudice, but also along with his wife Sonia, gifted me my music education. I don’t want to let him down. I don’t want US to let him down. I don’t want the world to let him down. So much of what’s happening now is familiar to him… I want the story to go a different way this time. We owe it to our children. We owe it to the survivors. And most of all- we owe it to all those who didn’t…
Am Yisrael Chai 💙🕯️
Happy almost New Year, friends! I’m going to welcome 2024 by playing a set for Billy Joel’s New Year show! I have always LOVED his music so it’s very special to welcome 2024 while singing along to his timeless songs. If you’re going to the show- come early to thank the old year with me. And then let’s ask the new year to be kind to us!
Be happy and healthy!
L’Chayim,
Regina 🎶🕯️💙
