Happy Passover

Elena

Passover is the most ritualistic dinner in Judaism.  In my home, I lead the Seder.  Every year I try to make the story of the exodus relevant not only for me, but especially, for my children.  It is a time to reflect upon what freedom means.  It is a time to remember that as a participant of a civilized society, one must remember to lift up our fellow “travelers” in this often complicate world.

The Story of Passover is about faith, bravery, kindness and redemption.   A life lesson that never loses it’s relevance.

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This year we will have wind up frogs that jump on the table, masks of the 10 plagues, chocolate covered marshmallow locusts and frogs!

 

 

UVA stops use of live cats to train med students

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Oh NO you don't!!!
Oh NO you don’t!!!

Richmond Times Dispatch:

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The University of Virginia has stopped using live cats to train medical students to insert breathing tubes in newborns.

U.Va. spokesman McGregor McCance told The Daily Progress that the university’s three USDA Category A felines — Alley, Kiki and Fiddle — have been adopted out to local residents.

“We’ve received a lot of feedback from lots of people on this issue, because obviously it’s one that stirs a lot of passion,” he said.

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PWC School Board shaves $5.6 million off FY14 budget

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Washingtonpost.com:

The Prince William County School Board voted last week to approve $5.6 million in cuts from Superintendent Steven L. Walts’s budget for fiscal 2014. Walts amended his original budget to compensate for reduced funding from the state and county.

The board voted, 7 to 0, in favor of the revised budget, from $893.6 million to $888 million. Member Lisa E. Bell (Neabsco) did not attend the meeting.

Cuts were achieved in part by reductions in planned technology improvements and in exploring the expansion of the county’s specialty programs. The budget institutes across-the-board cuts in the schools and central offices. Each school will have to reduce its operating budget by half a percent; central office departments will cut their budgets by 1 percent.

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