ITEMS OF INTEREST December 27, 2010 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Diane Black, Mary Lane

I can't remember why I lay on that bed, sobbing into my pillow and feeling so desperate. I must have spoken aloud, "I'm a flop. I'm a flop!" when I felt the sweet touch of my three-year-old daughter as she patted my back. "It's okay, Mommy, it's okay. Remember what Jesus said—'Fear not, little flop.'" The tears stopped instantly. I took that advice over 35 years ago and am still smiling!

Diane Black
Anchorage, Alaska

GERMANY'S BURGEONING JEWISH COMMUNITY ordained its first female rabbi since the Holocaust on [November 4], a major step for a religious group that until recently imported its leaders from abroad—most of them men.

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