Early this morning, someone drove around the neighborhood tossing pashkevils around, littering the streets with protest.

A short while later I saw a teenage girl walking, to school I presume. While she was walking, she bent down and picked up every pashkevil that lay in her path.

Mind you, the street was still filthy, littered with them everywhere else. One could argue that she wasn't really doing anything useful by picking up those few pashkevils. I would even say that I didn't bother picking any up (other than the one I wanted to read) because I said the whole street is messed up, my picking up a few will do nothing - it will have to wait for the street cleaner.

Yet this girl picked up every pashkevil she walked across. She must have known that she couldn't affect the whole street, or the whole neighborhood, but she didn't let that stop her from affecting her circle of influence. Kol HaKavod to her.

Most of the bonfires, generally arranged and managed by children, are left to burn down on their own. Everyone leaves when they have had enough. At the end, all that is left is some ash, a few burned out embers, and a bit of a mess, generally somewhere off to the side.

I saw one shul have their bonfire and then later, when I passed by again, actually cleaned up after themselves. They had two guys from the group sweeping away all the ash and dirty parts that remained loose.

This is something that you would not expect to see - so Kol Hakavod to the bonfire people who actually cleaned up after themselves!

Kol HaKavod.
The sale of pork in Israel bothers these guys enough that they came up with a solution. Instead of burning down the stores or holding prayer vigils outside them or banning them or anything like that, they simply went and bought the stores and is kashering them.
They say there is no economic interest involved (no idea if that is true or not). They simply bought it to purge it of pork and non-kosher food.

Kol Hakavod!

Rabbi Tal Zwecker has started a new blog called RBS A News. His first post is about charedim in RBS A who are upset about the graffiti about tznius and decided to clean it up....