The latest addition to our growing family was born today. This makes four daughters in our household.

Mom and daughter are doing fine.

We saw a movie about Hannah Senech at the JCC a few weeks ago. I can’t say that I really liked it. I came away with the impression that Hannah was a shitty commando that wrote some poetry. The movie was a nice propaganda piece for socialist pioneers. Make the desert bloom while singing Zum Gali Gali and all that.

The discussion moderator at the end seemed to be wholly unprepared and lost about a number of facts. Actually, I think that Number One could have taught the discussion afterwards with better results. She did ask a couple of good questions or make some good point, but I forget what they were.

I think that an elderly gentleman in front of us, though, summed up the whole exercise. He pointed out that as a community we needed role models for the kids to look up to that had the ideals we wanted to convey. Sports stars and musicians are the typical people that kids looked up to, so who represents what the Jewish community wants to see? Madonna?

I could have told him that my twelve year old is busy planning aliyah so that she can be a tank commander and live in Beersheba to be near where Ben-Gurion had his home. I think that would have floored him, so I said nothing. My wife told me later that she was thinking the same thing.

Maybe we have to boot strap it. There are no heroes, so we have to be it. Number One will be the role model of the next generation. I am sure that she will continue to be involved past Bat Mitzvah.

She will be a role model. And a good tanker.