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When Sherre Hirsch, a Los Angeles rabbi, had adolescent woes about boyfriends or school, her grandmother used to repeat an old Yiddish saying: "We plan, God laughs." Hirsch, now 39 and the mother of three children, says, "I heard it all the time. I realized for me and for so many people, that was sort of the theme of their life. It just wasn't turning out like they expected. And in some ways they thought God was laughing at them." Now, Hirsch gives out her own brand of comforting advice, in her new book, called - what else? - We Plan...
...would give me meaning, and it just gives me boredom." Because they feel guilty for coming to me, they start like this: "There are children starving in Africa, Rabbi, so I feel a little embarrassed coming to talk to you about this." And I say, "Know that God is big enough to care for the children starving in Africa and whatever you're about to tell me." I don't believe that God is picking and choosing. I think God feels our individual pain and hears it, and frankly already knows about it. He's more interested in us dealing...
...Kimora [his former wife] has shot, but whenever I see them she has them acting like little princesses. That's their job. They know that the job of the show is to know that the world is watching. That's all right to think the world is watching because God is always watching. Always try to keep your higher self. Your character promotes your own reality. I tell my kids to practice love. With the cameras watching you're forced to practice love. So you never know what makes the kids grow up the right way. Joey's [Russell...
...here in Galilee - where Druze and Arab villages perch on the same scrubby ridgelines as Jewish towns, all within easy reach of Hizballah rockets, and the region's peoples continue to squabble over the mantle of historic victimhood - young Americans committed to God and Zion may find comfort in a world of Death-eaters and wizards...
...saints in his last encyclical, Spe Salvi or "Saved by Hope." In his recently completed visit to the United States, the saints were the focus of his talk to young people and seminarians in Yonkers, New York. "Fix your gaze on our saints. The diversity of their experience of God's presence prompts us to discover anew the breadth and depth of Christianity," Benedict said. "Let your imaginations soar freely along the limitless expanse of the horizons of Christian discipleship. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic...