Last week, the U.S. State Department served as a “cultural partner” with something called the “Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.” The event ran from April 30 through May 5.
Faces and scenes from the amazing experience are flashing through their minds. We are certain of it. Though members of our Addis Ababa medical missions team are back at home settling into their regular routines, we know that they left a portion of their heart back in Ethiopia.
How painful to be stung by a bee around your eye. On Monday at our medical missions clinic, a little guy named Enbalchocho came to us with his eye swollen shut from a bee sting. Grimacing with the pain and discomfort, he did not look happy.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz called it “Kerry’s A-bomb.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chose the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, of all days, to invoke the inflammatory term “apartheid state” in reference to Israel.
We are midway through our medical missions week in the capital city of Ethiopia and our staff is catching us up on the exciting things going on there. The group arrived safely into Ethiopia and in good spirits.
Amid growing conflict between ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, long-buried anti-Semitic sentiments have begun to surface. For example, back on April 8th, Nazi symbols were drawn on a Holocaust monument in Odessa, Ukraine.
You have probably already heard the news that Jewish People in the Eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk have been handed leaflets by masked men, and told that they need to register themselves, and include a list of their properties as well as a $50 registration fee.
