Mom's yahrtzeit

Tonight, the 21st day of the Hebrew month of Av is the 8th yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of my mother a"h (peace be upon her). In the picture, taken about a year before she passed away, she is holding my youngest child, son # 5, child # 8.

Although like nearly every Jew of her generation in the Boston area, Mom was a lifelong Democrat, she was also very strongly pro-Israel, and opposed