Thought for the week: “I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear” (Rosa Parks). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “if you’re not outraged, you haven’t been paying attention” (Bumper Sticker). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought” (Senator Margaret Chase Smith). Shavua tov!

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Thought for the week: “It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner” (Jonas Salk). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine” (Thomas Jefferson). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent” (Elie Wiesel). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less” (Marie Curie). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success” (Irving Berlin). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “If you believe breaking is possible, believe fixing is possible" (Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy” (Mikhail Gorbachev). Shavua tov!

“I know of no…formula for success…I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and…about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights…and their inspiration to work together” (Queen Elizabeth II). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us” (Queen Elizabeth II). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day” (Sanskrit Proverb).

Thought for the week: “We do not predict the future, because we make the future – by our choices, our willpower, our persistence, and our determination to survive” (Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks). G’mar tov! Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent” (Loretta Lynn). Shavua tov! Chag sameach!

It is thought that Rabbi Regina Jonas was murdered in Auschwitz on Shabbat Bereishit. Please join us in saying Kaddish for her this coming Shabbat. Shavua tov! Moadim L’simcha!

Thought for the week: “Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist” (David Ben-Gurion). Shavua tov!

Thought for the week: “There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up” (Leslie Jordan). Shavua tov!