It’s Skywatch Friday once again. This week, although I am on vacation visiting with my daughter and her family, I do have a couple of photographs to share. They were taken just before I left for my vacation.
The focus on the above photograph is the huge cloud wall. A severe storm was approaching the house, and in some areas there was a tornado that touched down. Fortunately it missed my home.
The above photograph shows the same cloud wall from a different perspective.
For more Skywatch photographs, visit here.
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I read this article in the Miami Herald last night. I thought it was inspiring and poignant, and a lovely post to read before Shabbat begins. It is a story about a grandson’s trip to Poland in order to find his ancestral and Jewish roots. You can read it here.
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I came upon a nine minute documentary film quite by accident. It is entitled Oneg Shabbat-Emanuel Ringelblum’s Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto. It is extremely disturbing, heart-wrenching, and profound.
Tonight as you celebrate Shabbat, please keep all the victims of the Holocaust, and all victims of genocide, in your thoughts and prayers.
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Shabbat Shalom.
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Friday July 24, 2009 – 3rd of Av, 5769
The first shot is my favourite, I love those colors.
Have a great weekend
Guy
Regina In Pictures
By: Guy D on July 24, 2009
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Great skywatch.
Sydney – City and Suburbs
By: J Bar on July 24, 2009
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Thanks, Guy. Enjoy the weekend.
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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Thanks, J Bar.
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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Shabbat Shalom. Love the sky and the touching bit of journalism.
By: Greensboro Daily Photo on July 24, 2009
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Thank you, Greensboro.
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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Lorri – thank you for your post. The photos are of course beautiful as always.
I read the article and then watched the Oneg Shabbat video. Having discovered only yesterday that my Jewish roots extend to Holland, and coming face to face with dates of untimely deaths of people bearing the same family surname in Auschwitz and Sobibor, this is all a bit raw. I have watched so many documentaries, read so many books about the Shoah it is almost untrue, but this Oneg Shabbat archive is something profoundly different.
None of them will ever be forgotten.
Shabbat Shalom.
By: rachel on July 24, 2009
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Rachel: I understand and empathize. I felt the same way when I found out that relatives of mine died in Auschwitz, and died in mass killings in Shilel, Lithuania.
I’m so very sorry, dear Rachel…so very sorry.
Shabbat Shalom
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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By: Shabbat Shalom « Shavua Tov! on July 24, 2009
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Well I do love anything purple. Always such informative post too.
By: babooshka on July 24, 2009
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Shabbat Shalom and have a great weekend, jewwishes!
By: James on July 24, 2009
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babooshka: Thank you.
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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James: Thank you…you too!
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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That is quite a weather system moving through. I wish I could have been there for the storm. Thanks for visiting my SWF post….hi from sunny California.
By: Linnea on July 24, 2009
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Thanks, Linnea. Hi back from sunny SoCA, where I am visiting family through Sunday.
By: jewwishes on July 24, 2009
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