GDP & GJP Growth Trends
“2.2% Gross Domestic Product” in glaring red letters was the headline that faced me this morning. Economists, politicians and pundits are hard at work discussing why the GDP is slowing down. Is it the President’s fault or is it Congress’s fault, is it due to Europe or is it the gas prices, or is it some other factors which haven’t helped the GDP grow and yet worse have caused it to shrink and keep this economy at a slow growth pace.
I am not an economist or a politician so I will leave the speculating to the experts, but I thought I would talk about the GJP instead, as that is within my field. While there are no headlines announcing this, I think that the GJP is growing… Read More »
This week I heard a radio commercial pushing a retirement financial product, in doing so they mentioned, that on average most people get to enjoy 6000 days of retirement. Now I have never thought about it myself, but it made me start doing the math on how they got to that number and how many years that are estimating on. I quickly realized that I hope people get many more days than that. Either way it got me thinking about time and how fast it goes by and how before we know it another 7, 20 or a 100 days have passed by.
This week Jewish Communities around the world marked the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here we present you with a powerful 5 minute video story about a song that came off a train to a death Camp.
Close to 100 people joined Chabad of Sudbury's Community Seder's, with 65 on the 1st night and just over 40 for the second Seder. By far our biggest and best ever, participants enjoyed great food, company, song, inspiration and more. The Seder's were jointly led by Rabbi Freeman of Sudbury and his father Arieh Freeman of London, UK, along with plenty readings by Seder participants and some songs and customs from around the world.