Miami Jewish Museum & Isaac Bashevis Singer

I had the privilege and pleasure of visiting the Miami Jewish Museum in South Beach this past Sunday. It was a rainy summer day and in between running between rainfall and puddles it was a good cultured experience.

There is an Isaac Bashevis Singer (and his artists) exhibit at the museum until September 2011 and I recommend that any fan of the literary great to go and check out the small, intimate exhibit at the museum. Singer lived his last days in the Surfside neighborhood of Miami and has a street named after him there. He was a prolific novelist of short stories, poems and more and was one of the greatest writers in the post World War 2 era. He keeps the Yiddish language alive.

The museum on its own is a small museum with interesting and wonderful information on Jewish Floridians, Cuban Jews and the Israeli connection.

More of July

Hurricane season became a reality (for approximately 24 hours) as Emily picked up over Haiti and the Dominican Republic and was heading towards the American Eastern Seaboard. Though it weakened and turned into heavy rain and flooding. The season continues.

A different hurricane was brewing in Washington as the Government and Politicians tried to make good with the debt deal. They procrastinated, fought, leveraged and finally brokered a deal. To further show the doom and gloom of the current debt crisis, it was revealed that Apple Inc had more money on hand than the U.S. Treasury (at one point).

A lone gunman went berserk in Oslo, Norway as he set off bombs in a Government building and attacked a Political camp, killing up to 80 people in a bloody rampage. The accused Anders Behring Breivik, claims the attack was needed to ‘save’ Europe from Muslim infiltration and that it would start a ‘necessary revolution’. Breivik’s attorney noted that his client appeared to be insane.

‘Borders’ the large bookseller closed its doors after filing for liquidation as the American dollar continued to weaken on international currency markets. Apple were in the news again as they launched their O SX Lion and the new MacBook Air into the Computer Jungle.

Music fans around the world mourned the untimely death of U.K. singer Amy Winehouse. Some say she joined the 27 Club alongside Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. Others say she didn’t.

After 21 stages of cycling through the beautiful wine country of France, we wish congratulations to Cadel Evans and Australia on winning your first Tour de France. What a wonderful feat of skill, persistence and hard work.

Please continue to pray for Chaim Yonatan Zev Halevi ben Yael for a complete and speedy recovery and be kind to one another.

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