Comments - January 2021

 

January 2021

 

Finkle Art

Young Tal Brody - YMHA

 

 

Barry Solzberg, Thomas Tighue and 19 others

Lillian Vegotsky

Great pic of Trenton STAR basketball player! Trenton makes, the world takes!!!!

 

Robin Zell

A national hero in Israel. My claim to fame.

Vicki DaBronzo

Such a great picture! 

Annette Georgios

I had it for years. Saw Tal at Tal’s movie premiere. It was great....I posted this pic many times. .I only know Tal. 70 plus years....our mom s were friends and pregnant. Same time..

Irwin Perlstein

Great pic

Malcolm Richard Casway

I played and coached in that league . I remember the gym upstairs there was one basket if you took a set shot , it would hit the ceiling. Ha ha.

Richard Perlman

Where's Bruce L ?

Finkle Art

Bruce Lubitz, who was a superlative athlete, was a year ahead

Mort Judy Evans

Tue, Jan 12, 10:45 AM (2 days ago)

to me

 

Art,

Thank you for the update.

Mort Evans

Junior 3, Ninth Grade 1948

Tu B'shvat (15th of Shvat) - January 27-28, 2021

Tu B’shvat is Israeli Arbor Day. Ecological organizations in Israel and the diaspora have adopted the holiday to further environmental-awareness programs. On Israeli kibbutzim, Tu B’shvat is celebrated as an agricultural holiday.

 

On Tu B’shvat 1890, Rabbi Ze'ev Yavetz, one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement (Religious Zionism), took his students to plant trees in the agricultural colony of Zichron Yaakov. The Jewish Teachers Union and later, the Jewish National Fund, established in 1901 to oversee land reclamation and afforestation of the Land of Israel.

 

The JNF devoted the day to planting eucalyptus trees to stop the plague of malaria in the Hula Valley. Today the Fund schedules major tree-planting events in large forests every Tu B’shvat. Over a million Israelis take part in the Jewish National Fund's Tu B’shvat tree-planting activities.

 

In keeping with the idea of Tu B’shvat marking the revival of nature, many of Israel's major institutions have chosen this day for their inauguration. The cornerstone-laying of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem took place on Tu B’shvat 1918; the Technion University in Haifa, 1925; and the Knesset (Parliament Building), 1949.