Last Monday, I performed the role of “Godfather” to our first grandson during his Brit Milah, where he got his name: Naveh Nahum.

It was hard to control emotions that gushed out when the name was announced.

Nahum was the name of my younger brother Nahum, who died eight months ago after a fight with renal cancer.
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Rivka, my daughter, who was born in Tzfat 28 years ago, added that the meaning of the name Nahum, to comfort and to provide compassion, conveys added significance for the month of Av, since there is tradition to call this Menachem Av,

Rivka, now a new mother, gave special thanks to God and to all the people who prayed for her during this pregnancy, which followed three pregnancies that ended in loss. She explained that “Naveh” meant oasis and the return to the “homestead” of the Jewish people, connoting the yearning of the Jews to build the Third Temple in Jerusalem. This ties in to his being born the day before Tisha b’Av, the day we commemorate the destruction of the Jewish Temples.

Rivka noted another meaning for Naveh. Her due date coincided with the day of the expulsion from Gush Katif. Rivka spent the week prior to the expulsion in Neve Dekalim, volunteering with Katif kids as a clown therapist, as she tried to keep their spirits up before their communities were wantonly destroyed. She expressed her wish to remember Gush Katif as the beautiful thriving place it once was and blessed her new-born son that he should merit to be one of the pioneers who would renew the Jewish homestead in Katif.

(JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE ABOUT RIVKA IN KATIF)
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PIX OF RIVKA THE CLOWN THERAPIST IN KATIF:
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Israel TV Channel Two filmed the Brit ceremony, as part of a documentary called NINE MONTHS, which deals with the trials and tribulations of women determined to have a baby. The documentary is scheduled to air in November.

Channel Two filmed every stage of Rivka’s pregnancy, including extensive interviews with Rivka and Ari, her husband, escorting her to doctor appointments and even stood outside the delivery room alongside the expectant grandparents, all holding their breath waiting to hear the cry of a live baby.

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David Bedein
David Bedein
David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.

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