One of the things that strike me as we observe the fast is non-victim-hood of the day.
What I mean is that it is true that we Jews have been victims throughout our history we have never behaved as victims. That means we do not allow our victim hood to overcome our actions.
What is victim hood [...]
About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
As you can see from the picture he is also a rather handsome fellow. If he can ever get his picture on the blog!
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then
