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Gertie, Louise, Maurice and Doreen Glazer
This January marks 50 years since the
passing of Doreen's father Maurice on 16th January 1973.
See Doreen's column.
See Doreen's column.
THIS
WEEK'S NEWS
- Daughter Vered Ron returned this week from USA and now all our
children and grandchildren are in Israel
- We were saddened this week by the passing of Tirza Naor whom Doreen had befriended for a number of years.
- Tiina Drui (see Schank family tree)
is a very talented artist.
Her painting of her husband Heini acurately depicts him. This painting
and some more of
Tiina's artwork can be seen here.
- Last week we saw pictures of the Segolis
in Tromso viewing the
Northern Lights. It looks like an amazing sight. That's something
we've never experienced or even come
close to. Our visits to the far north were all in summer. At least we
did see
the midnight sun in Tromso and had
lunch and bought a tee shirt at
the Northern Lights Inn in
Labrador!
- Granddughter Lotem Segoli's robotics team took first place in the
Israel Robotic Competition preliminaries. We're proud of her team and
of Lotem who
was also nominated for the FIRST Dean's
List for excellence. FIRST
is an international not-for-profit organisation that sponsors
mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology
skills for high school students.
- Like father like son: About 50 years ago the Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef visited Coral World and I showed him around the site. This year his son, Chief Rabbi Yitschak Yosef visited Coral World and my son showed him around the site. Click for pictures
THIS WEEK'S PICTURE
14th January 2023
Moran
and Mikhal Segoli view the
Northern Lights
Son
Moran writes:
For my 50th birthday, we went to see the Northern Lights in Tromso, Norway
We climbed a mountain to see the ‘almost’ sunrise (the first sunrise this winter is on the 21/1), went on snow-shoe hike with a sledge dog puppy, warmed up with a fire on the ice, went whale watching and saw Killer whales and Humpback whales.
The weather wasn’t good – cloudy and snowing but on our last day we managed to see the Northern Lights in the one hour that the clouds cleared up.
See Wikipedia article on the Northern Lights
New York - - Welcome 2023 - The Ball Drop at midnight.
We're in New York, and thanks to
Daughter Vered's friend Meaghan Coffey, we had a bird's eye view of the
pre-midnight festivities and a direct ground level view of the
tradional ball drop signalling the beginning of the year. Click on the
picture or here to see the
final 5 second countdown. To see more pictures and Doreen's account of
the occasion click here..
THIS
WEEK'S NEWS - We wish all our friends a Happy New Year and a successful and healthy 2023.
- We were saddended to hear of rhe death of Doreen's cousin Gail
Nickel in Johannesburg this week. We extend condolences to her
sisters
Lucille Melamed, Wendy Nickel Ginsberg and Carmen (Nickel) Kay; and
their children. See Nochimovitz
family tree.
- We wish Avram Segoli, our daughter-in-law's father, a speedy
recovery after his medical procedure.
- In New
York in addition to the "ball drop" we saw 2 plays (Piano
Lesson, Leopoldstadt) and an opera (Aida). We met again with our
relatives on the Nochimovitz side the Hocks
and on the Glazer side the
Levins. Doreen went to Philadephia to meet old friend Nina Schafer.
- From NewYork we stopped over for 2 days In Toronto Canada, where the temperature was -2C. There was no wind so it wasn't so bad. From our hotel window we saw ice skating below. We had dinner with Doreen's cousin (on the Nochimovitz side) Eileen Glogauer and family and with friends from our Durban days John and Ethne Nussbaum.
- Son Moran and Mikhal Segoli had a short couple of hours break one day this week - only it wasn't so short
- Daughter Vered Ron, Aviv, Danielle and Oz,and Lior are enjoying
their holiday in Cuba.
- This week Moran spent a long weekend with 3 friends in Amsterdam. Following his father's (my!) tradition he enjoyed the local herring.