Phoenix Dec 2013

Chicago Thanksgiving 2013

No Yehuda Will Be Left Behind

Chanukah Play 2013 Starring Esti

The Wizard of Oy's

This is why Suri used to love the subway & Naomi will too.

CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos

Sailing Sailing....

Sailing Aug2013

Meir & I snuck out of town to Sardis Lake MS for an afternoon to go sailing with Ron Katz. My first time on a sailboat. It was quite a great experience.

This article is so funny but 100% true

Parents Scrutinize Online Camp Photos to Check on Kids

Esti's Visiting Day

Look how happy Esti looks!

Ich ub gevarfen the air conditioner doch de fenster

That is a new version of sentence I put together when daddy used to try to teach my Yiddish the original word was mantel (coat) instead of a/c. I threw the coat out of the window was replaced with I threw the air conditioner out of the window.  As Larry and I were attempting to put the new AC in my bedroom window, the window tilted forward and down went the ac to the deck below.  Turns out the window was missing a latch and the other latch wasn't locked in.  We put it back in the box took it back to home depot to exchange it.  I still don't have the A/C in. Ironically,  The co-op wants the support brackets installed to avoid fallng a/cs.

Esti at camp

Poor Esti is homesick

Click the picture to see all the camp pictures & play "Where's Esti?" (She and Naomi both seem to have a look-alike there).

Also, please email Esti by clicking here.

Bye Bye Blue Car

I just got off the phone with Aunt Helen and her car was just hauled off to the junk yard. Don't worry, she mad the decision and of course got $$$ for it.  She was going to call car service for an price to take her motor vehicle to give in the plates. She just called back and for $11 she is going there today.
Suri, you took a picture so you could post it.

He's got that Loterstein talent.

phoenix in stamford

"We Got a Rabbi"

Here's the song that I came up with at the dinner honoring our rabbi. The photographer was laughing so hard that she couldn't keep the camera steady.

Could this be in our old basement?

To you younger generation. This is the Rebbe that we sold our parent's house to in Boro Park. When we sold it we only knew him as Rabbi Katz a Dayan for Belz. After we sold him the house he made it into a shtiebel & became the 'Saderhelle Rebbe".

& HERE IS SELICHOS IN OUR KITCHEN http://youtu.be/2oYOpROWDyg?t=2m9s

New (old) albums

Pesach in Memphis 2013

2013-05-27

Pictures in Sedona Arizona

https://picasaweb.google.com/105656498001570192589/SedonaMay272013?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJz2rIHmpsOOlQE&feat=directlink

Sedona may 27 2013

Chachamim U'n'vonim

pre trip stress

I am pretty much packed and ready. Just a few last minute things. Work was nice a calm until yesterday when the van was almost ticketed. The front plate fell off so I had to deal with the DMV. Yesterday an hour and found out I needed to surrender the old plate. Today the driver took the old van and gave me the plate and dropped me at DMV near Barclays Center. That area is really busy and full of good shopping.  So I spent 2 hours at DMV got the new plates but missed the driver. On the way back, the old van started leaking fluid so he can't drive it tomorrow as planned. Now Ihave to meet him at 8 AM in Sheepshead Bay then drive across Brooklyn to work. I am leaving early so  I could get to the airport. At least this happened while I was still around.

Israel here I come

I started packing. At least I fixed my suitcase and it is open and some things are be put in it. I still don't have my Shabbos plans worked out. I will pick up my phone on Monday and could give you my phone number. I will have limited Email access. My Ipod touch is not displaying the contents of email just the heading. anyone figure out how to fix that?

Touch Cancelled - '24' Coming back

Nehbach. It's gotten silly. http://tvline.com/2013/05/09/fox-cancelled-touch/ http://tvline.com/2013/05/09/24-returns-fox-limited-series/

Uncle Yossie at the Gym

Kumbaya

Anshei choir rehearsals starting soon.

Happy Birthday Fran!

To my male siblings (brothas from the same motha)for some inexplicable reason I googled "Hawthorne Wingo" & came across this http://www.hawthornewingotime.com/2012/06/27/hello-world/.

To my female sibling...HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope it is a wonderful day & a happy & healthy year biz 120.

Israel trip

Ticket  -  check
electric adapter - check
place to stay - check
info for phone - check
money into account for feeless ATM transactions -check

things to do

finalize Rome tour  (the Jewish ones are too expensive)
find a place to leave my car
figure what to pack and in which suitcase
get in touch with everyone I want to see  and still waiting for those I contactd toget back to me.
figure out the exact itinerary

WELL IT FINALLY HAPPENED TODAY,,,,FIRST DAY OF MY PERMANENT VACATION,,,IT'S BEEN A GREAT 32 YEAR RUN . WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

Ken's Diner!

Way to go Ken & Dan!

Pesach Family Pictures

trip to Israel?????

I am seriously thinking about going to Israel after Shavuos. Fares are higher and harder to get than I thought.  I jsut spoke with a travel agent who is got me a decent fare with stop overs.  Going I have time to tour Rome and returning I have just enough time to wave hello good bye to Paris. I just have to ask my co worker to delay his vacation by a day.  i have to find a place or places to stay. I do have plenty of people to visit but not really stay with for an extended time. Any suggestions welome

computer saga new chapter

I went back to Best Buy yesterday to pick up my new laptop. It is an Asus. The geek downloaded microsoft office and the anti virus and google chrome.  Guess what - it didn't take that long. google chrome was downloaded in a bout 5 minutes.  He showed me a couple of things too.  I took it home and opened it up. It was a black screen. The toshiba would automatically open to a sign in screen.  I found a silver button and pushed it and it started. I guess this machine has to be opened or the other laptop never completely shut down.   I do like the Asus better. I like the key board as it is raised and easier to type on.  So far so good .

Our new swimming pool

Great Rav Henkin Story

Very Cool Hashgacha Pratis Story

Where do I start? A week or 2 ago Fran sent me an email with a link to an article entitled, “Rav Henkin, America’s Forgotten Poseik”. Here is the link http://5tjt.com/rav-henkin-americas-forgotten-poseik/.

I don’t believe we have any letters from him, especially with any Halachik rulings.

Now fast forward to this past Sunday. As you may know we had 4 funerals in one week & so on Sunday night we had 2 Shiva houses, so I, as the second stringer, went to the home of the Shiva for Lenny Weiner. Lenny lived right across the street from the Kilstein’s & in fact single handedly built the handicap ramp for them. His late wife “Footsie” passed away 2 years ago & was a participant where Ima works.

Now Footsie’s grandfather was Rev. Turetsky, who was a mohel, shochet, shamash at the Anshei. He died in 1959. As I walked in to the house several people told me that a relative had brought over a bunch of letters that were written to Rev. Turetsky that were in Yiddish, Hebrew even Russian. They asked if I could translate them. I told them I couldn’t help with the Russian but I’d love to see the letters after we daven.

Being at somewhat of a loss what to say between mincha & maariv, I told a story that I saw in the sefer, “Veha’arev Na” (chelek 2, parshas vayechi) which was a tremendous hashgacha pratis story about how a nursing home informed the wrong next of kin  that his Mother had passed away. It’s too long to write here. Bkitzur, the lady who passed away was buried k'das UK'din only because of the terrible mixup when her son who had become a priest intended to have her cremated.

Anyway, I talked about how everything happens for a reason (there was a mixup with the niftar's medical care in the hospital) & how "G-d moves the chess pieces".

Everyone liked the story & we moved on. Right after maariv, they brought out the folder with the letters.

The first letter right on top of the pile was a letter from Rav Henkin!

I didn't get every word of it but apparently the shaila had to do with the family leaving the graveside before the complete covering of the grave.

Bottom line was Rav Henkin was against it, (he quoted the Chasam Sofer that "Chadash is asur min hatorah". He said that he didn’t like these “ceremonies” but concluded that he shouldn't make a machlokes over it. I hope to get a copy of the letter soon.

Everyone was freaked out that my step- grandfather wrote a letter to their great grandfather, that I just happened to be there that night, that I just happened to have just told the story I did, that they just happen to be looking for his letters now, & that Fran just happened to have made me aware of that.

Here is the letter...

Here is a link to see it better    Link to Rav Henkin Letter pdf

I'm really thinking of buying a shed for the backyard.

New Computer Saga continues

I spent another couple of hours at Best Buy again on sunday. I went to a different store this time. I wanted them to check my desktop computer and add  the anti virus. Well that dinosaur couldn't be updated since their equipment and  y anti virus software isn't compatible.  At least this Best Buy in LIC has an outdoor lot and shopping carts so I was able to shlep the computer easily.  I had them look at my new laptop because Google Chrome which Asher loaded stopped working.  After a bout an hour of trying to downloading it. It couldn't download. I spoke with a manager and he is switching my laptop to another. we chose an Asus which has a faster processor for only $20 more than the price I paid and this new one is also more expensive.  It will arrive in store at the end of the week. I guess Sunday I go back there.
 I went to that store because it is close to a Corningware outlet store and I want to replace a lid I broke.  By the time I got out of Best Buy on Sunday Corning was closed.

Itzkowitz Grocery Store

Remember the story daddy used to tell about the grocery store on Lee avenue which was around the corner from his. How Mr. Itzkowitz took Domino sugar and repackaged it into brown paper bags and stamped them with his name  & Kosher for Passover then doubed the price.  There is a small closed store with a faded Itzkowitz  Grocery store sign on it.  I was on the work van today and passed it.

Pesach

Everyone have a wonderful Pesach and safe trips

laptop continued

I went to the geek squad and it took so much time to figure out the password for a microsoft account and delete the second I tried to create. Then it took a couple of hours to load in Microsoft home and the anti virus. The anti virus I was sold was taking to too long to download so the geek exchanged it for a different anti virus. I am now friends with the geek squad and hopefully will be able to use my new laptop.  Next step is to bring in my PC to have the anti virus loaded in there and for them to clean it out and speed it up.  I could now start writing down the story I have been continuously telling the Phoenix Weiners.

laptop

I bought a laptop yesterday. But somehow Windows 8 won't open unless you have a microsoft account and I am having trouble matching the email to the password. I will go to the geek squad and let them help me. Besides the have to load in Microsoft office and the anti virus programs etc.  That's what I get upgrading to the new century of technology.

https://sites.google.com/site/chadoshot/home

Grizz Nat'l Anthem

I'm singing the National Anthem at the Grizzlies vs. Minn game today IYH. Singing with 2 other cantors. I played keyboard for the 1st grade siddur play this morning.  First time playing keyboard in public. I was more nervous about than about singing in front of 15k people.

Chaim Dances and Sings in Hebrew

Pictures from the last 5 months

August 2012 to December 2012