Shalom Zachor

Dear Friends, Four weeks ago today our son, Yitzchak Meir, was born. After being in a coma and on a respirator, and given little chance of progressing from there, we were able to enter him into the covenant of Abraham Our Father when we had his Bris Milah today. Two weeks ago, the doctors felt…

Dear Friends, Thank you all for your calls and enquiries and offers of help. Words cannot express our gratitude to you all – the moral support definitely helps us feel stronger during this difficult time. How we wish we could respond in turn with good news about our son! Unfortunately we have no good news…

A Story about Yitzchak Meir, told over on the occasion of his 13th Yahrzeit: My son was born with scarring on the brain on September 28, 1999, in the now defunct Misgav Ledach hospital in Jerusalem. By October 5, the doctors wanted to get a better look at what was going on in his brain,…

I visited my son’s grave today. I really am at a loss when I go there. There are thousands of Jews who will pray at the grave of a righteous person. The ones who do it incorrectly think they are praying to the deceased person, asking him to do this or that for the living person….