<div>Please see immediately below for a mitzvah opportunity! </div><div><br></div><span>Have a great shabbos!</span><br><br><span>Yitz</span><div><br></div><div>PS - For those who appreciate some good pun (or at least a groaner), follow "Parsha Puns" on Twitter! (yes, it's me) <br>
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In anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming trip to Cuba from March 26-28, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington has launched a new nationwide on-line petition drive humbly appealing to His Holiness to make whatever efforts necessary so that he may obtain Alan Gross' release from Cuba while he is there. </p>
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We are respectfully requesting that you sign this <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109454702182&s=3021&e=001Ws5ddqFDld87E7hMcePQNr6ij1hvKXin8l0dXb6K3ZqBsCEvtvgcBhj-LB5M3gkju0JSCt8ztgBBoLq10tLtenP5jirJdKLuNCXyoj791RDnOtzHUDztCDvmYZx-V4Vyg2q15B8fIWQmsLGM3gUSyZpfgYWK3ro5ST29AbUiZS7Wi6zXApydcw==" shape="rect" style="color:blue" target="_blank">petition</a> at<a shape="rect" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">freealangrossnow.com</a> and forward it electronically (email, Twitter, Facebook) to your family, friends and associates and encourage them to sign and forward the petition to others.</p>
</div></div><div><div><p style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(250,249,254);margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0px">Alan Gross, a resident of the DC Metropolitan Area, was arrested in Cuba in December 2009 while working with the small Jewish community there to improve their Internet access and to create an intranet for them. He has been incarcerated ever since. He languished in prison for over a year until he was finally charged by the Cuban government. He was convicted by a Cuban court of "actions against the integrity of the State," and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He subsequently appealed his sentence to the Cuban Supreme Court and the court reaffirmed the sentence, exhausting all of Alan's legal remedies. His only avenue left is commutation of his sentence by Raul Castro, President of Cuba.</p>
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<div>Guy ben Rina (Hever), disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the Golan Heights in August 1997; Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah (Katz), Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the Sultan Yaaqub battle in Lebanon on June 11,1982. <br>
Also please keep in mind a Yeshiva student jailed in Japan:<br>Ya'akov Yosef ben Reizel<br>If you need some suggestions for which Tehillim (Psalms) to say, I'd suggest # 20, # 130 & # 121<br>************************************************************************<br>
If you haven't checked it out yet, please check out <a href="http://www.dovslist.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.dovslist.org</a> - GREAT site for organizing tehillim and prayers for the sick created by my sister & her husband in memory of their son Dov. PLEASE FORWARD THIS LINK AROUND!<br>
************************************************************************<br><font>Any names on our mishebayrach list over a month old will be deleted unless<br>I'm told otherwise. Please say mishebayrach for:<br>Yonatan ben Malka<br>
Yosef Adam ben Elke<br>Chaya Rachel bas Devorah Mindel<br>Aidel Chaya bas Gittel<br>Binyomin Leib ben Pesha<br>Nachman Tzvi Hirsch ben Elka<br>Meir Tzvi ben Mirka<br>Yisrael ben Dina<br>Oriya bat Michal<br>David ben Zohara <br>
</font>Avigdor Chai Avraham ben Rahchol Leah (8/24)<br>Yehudah ben Gittel Leah</div><div>Zelig Leib ben Leah (2/17)<br></div><div>Refael Zakkai Avraham ben Yakira Avigayil (2/17)</div>
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