We'll be meeting at the Panera Bread location on Tiedeman Road, in Brooklyn.
See you then!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Feel the Love!!!!
Don't forget our Dennis Prager Group meeting, this coming Sunday, February 8 at 2 p.m.
We'll be meeting at the Panera Bread location on Tiedeman Road, in Brooklyn.
See you then!
We'll be meeting at the Panera Bread location on Tiedeman Road, in Brooklyn.
See you then!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Prager Group meeting in January 2009!
Just a reminder that we have a Dennis Prager Group meeting on January 11, 2009, at 2 p.m., at the Panera's at Golden Gate Plaza, in Mayfield Heights.
Don't forget that we also need your news items for the January 2009 issue of "Clarity." We especially want to read how Dennis Prager influenced your life this past year. (Dianne had an unexpected break-through this past year and will be sharing that in the upcoming issue of "Clarity." )
Please send your contributions as soon as possible, be they words or pictures, or words and pictures, it doesn't matter. Dennis sets the example for growth through sharing his life with us and we can perhaps touch someone else's life through our own.
Maybe it wasn't Dennis who made you yell at the radio or TV. Maybe it was a spouse, a relative, another talk show host?
Did you save a story from the internet or the newspaper and file it under "Keep"?
Let us hear from you.
Happy and safe New Year, Everyone!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Pictures from Solon Chabad!!
(I was sitting right near Donn and thought, "How in the world is he going to get good pictures from this distance?" As you can see, I had nothing to worry about!)
I'm only putting up a few of them here, but they are the important ones: With Prager Group people standing with Dennis.
Thanks, again, Donn!
PS - In the picture below is Kobe Japan's very own Dennis Prager Group member, James Domingo.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Upcoming Prager Group NEO header for our newsletter
Every newspaper or newsletter needs a banner. We now have one. Now all we need is some news and a good NAME for our newsletter.
I was thinking the Newsletter could have
1) West-side / East-side sections
2) Suggested topics for the Monthly Meetings
3) Subjects that we would like Dennis to cover
4) Field trip ideas
5) Birthdays - with or without the year
6) Pragerisms - an ever-expanding list of Dennis' best quips, from either his books, lectures or the shows
7) "If I were Alan Estrin, I would... " section
8) If I had only minutes to pack, what would I take?
9) Our bucket list (things to do before we die)
10) A good cartoon
11) New members intro
I was thinking the Newsletter could have
1) West-side / East-side sections
2) Suggested topics for the Monthly Meetings
3) Subjects that we would like Dennis to cover
4) Field trip ideas
5) Birthdays - with or without the year
6) Pragerisms - an ever-expanding list of Dennis' best quips, from either his books, lectures or the shows
7) "If I were Alan Estrin, I would... " section
8) If I had only minutes to pack, what would I take?
9) Our bucket list (things to do before we die)
10) A good cartoon
11) New members intro
12) Pictures
This is just a start, of course, as I KNOW you guys have other and probably better ideas.
Looking forward to your contributions, and they don't have to be continual, they can be seasonal, intermittent, or just once in a while (which might be the same as 'intermittent," but I'm not sure).
This is just a start, of course, as I KNOW you guys have other and probably better ideas.
Looking forward to your contributions, and they don't have to be continual, they can be seasonal, intermittent, or just once in a while (which might be the same as 'intermittent," but I'm not sure).
I think, too, that with as busy as people are, we can try for a once-a-month publication but once-every-other-month would work, too.
If you offered to help with the newsletter, please email me.
Thanks,
Dianne
Terrorism's Global Impact I - RJC event Dec. 14
The Republican Jewish Coalition of Cleveland invites you to attend our December Current Events Discussion Group
Terrorism's Global Impact, Part I
Terrorism's Global Impact, Part I
Michael (a former intelligence officer) and Beverly Goldstein attended the World Counter-Terrorism Summit in Herzlia, Israel last September and will debut their power point presentation on Afghanistan.
A discussion and Q&A will follow.
Sunday, December 14th - 9:45 - 11:15 am
The Four Seasons Party Room
26400 George Zeiger Drive
Beachwood, Ohio
There will be no charge to attend this program.
To RSVP, please contact Barbara Amper by phone:(216) 831-2083 or email: bamper@earthlink.net . Just mention your Dennis Prager group affiliation.
Sincerely,
Republican Jewish Coalition Cleveland Chapter
Sincerely,
Republican Jewish Coalition Cleveland Chapter
A little late but here are Donn's pictures from the Townhall Meeting in October 2008
Donn Nottage (Renee's husband) gave me a disk with these great photos on it but I'm just now getting to put them up on a web site for you all to see. I'll get one of his videos up as well.
By the way, the pictures appear in reverse order, the first ones are the last ones Donn took; it was just the way I uploaded them. You can start at the bottom of the web page if you like. (Sorry.)
It's not all the pictures but a representative selection of Donn's awesome pics.
Thanks, Donn!
In case you weren't there, Hugh Hewitt arrived late because he was doing his show live from LaCentre, but to his right is Michael Medved, then Dennis, then Joe Lieberman arrived near the end. Donn's early pictures show some of the Pragerites sitting in the front row.
Dianne
Monday, November 17, 2008
The "Pragerhead" experience
I think it was Janice last night who compared us to 'Deadheads,' those die-hard fans who are willing to travel anywhere the band the 'Grateful Dead' is performing.
That's us, Pragerheads, Dennisheads ... We braved the cold, the snow, the slush, the long trek from the Cleveland Clinic or Church parking lots to hear Dennis speak on one of his favorite subjects (and ours), Happiness. Thankfully, members of the Solon Chabad, invited us to share the experience.
When Dennis took up the microphone last night he wanted to know right away who in the audience had never heard him on the radio. Quite a few people raised their hands, and Dennis wondered aloud, "What are you doing here then?"
I was mystically jealous of those people who had never heard Dennis on the radio. These were first-timers, 'virgins,' as it were. They were about to experience those "Wow!" moments the way I did when I first heard Dennis Prager on the radio, when I first heard "I prefer clarity over agreement," or even "Write that down, Alan!" - that kind of wisdom which only comes from long-dead grand-parents or even, say, Will Rogers or Homer Simpson.
I knew what was coming and I silently begged these people to pay very close attention because they were about to have their worlds changed forever.
But then, like any good experience, I found myself enjoying re-living those same moments, just the way I would if I were listening to a favorite song, or watching for the billionth time one of my favorite movies.
I didn't care if I knew I was going to hear something I had heard before, I was actually listening for it, waiting for it, and, of course, hoping that everyone else would revel in it, too. And, yes, I think they did.
Last night's Happiness lecture reminded of the time, a number years ago, when we had tickets to hear Victor Borge. We were polite, an appreciative audience, (in Asheville, NC, the stage set outdoors on the terrace of the Biltmore estate, overlooking the Smokey Mountains). But we didn't really come alive until Borge started doing his old routines, the ones that first made us laugh all those years ago. We fairly screamed when the elderly Borge fell off his piano bench while his beautiful opera singer belted out some aria or another. It was the 'old' stuff that drew us there in the first place. The kids in the audience even got the jokes. I don't think you can get enough of a good thing.
There was another process going on in my mind when I should have been listening to Dennis. I love watching couples, not necessarily married couples, it just has to be two people who know each other well. I like to observe their body language when they are sharing the same experience. They are subtly sharing it with each other through whispers, side glances, and the hardly-noticed leanings into one another, as if to say, "Did you hear that?" They don't usually turn fully frontally and face their companion because that might be too much of a distraction or intrusive. Most of these communications, of course, are designed to go unnoticed by anyone else.
I can see why this sharing of the "Dennis Prager experience" is analogous to the Deadhead one, and why we are then drawn to communing with each other every month at our Dennis Prager Group meetings.
But I think my most memorable and perhaps profound "Wow!" moment last night came when Dennis spoke of the minister who surprised his congregation one Sunday when he told them, "God isn't enough." From our human beginning God knew that He wasn't going to be enough for us, that we were going to need other people. It just so happened that Adam needed a wife (don't they all!) but more importantly God knew that Adam needed someone other than God Himself. Who would have thought! Even Will Rogers would have appreciated that revelation!
Pragerheads come from very diverse experiences, some religious, some secular and some combination of secu-religious ones, but Dennis reminded us last night where happiness needs to come from and that we owe it to other people to at least act happy even if we're not feeling it at the moment.
Dennis also spent a good bit of time on how the Chronically Unhappy and 'Moody' people can have an adverse effect on children, too. I felt empathy for the young father in the audience, the one who was looking for advice on how to keep a three-year-old from becoming a chronic complainer. (I'm not sure if the young father ever heard someone say, "If you don't stop that crying I'm going to give you something to REALLY cry about!" The line worked on me as a child so I used it on my kids.) Dennis did his best to offer advice but in the end he fell back on the one staple and really ancient tenet: You'll figure it out.
Like most important experiences I will regurgitate pieces of the evening over time and it will be as though I am just tasting these morsels for the first time.
I also feel a little like a pearl diver who already knew what was inside that crusty old shell but then was surprised to find there were two pearls this time. One pearl looked a lot like all the other pearls and then there was this new one, one I hadn't ever imagined before.
I look forward to hearing from you about the other pearls you found last night. Send me your emails or log on here yourself and we can all re-live the night.
That's us, Pragerheads, Dennisheads ... We braved the cold, the snow, the slush, the long trek from the Cleveland Clinic or Church parking lots to hear Dennis speak on one of his favorite subjects (and ours), Happiness. Thankfully, members of the Solon Chabad, invited us to share the experience.
When Dennis took up the microphone last night he wanted to know right away who in the audience had never heard him on the radio. Quite a few people raised their hands, and Dennis wondered aloud, "What are you doing here then?"
I was mystically jealous of those people who had never heard Dennis on the radio. These were first-timers, 'virgins,' as it were. They were about to experience those "Wow!" moments the way I did when I first heard Dennis Prager on the radio, when I first heard "I prefer clarity over agreement," or even "Write that down, Alan!" - that kind of wisdom which only comes from long-dead grand-parents or even, say, Will Rogers or Homer Simpson.
I knew what was coming and I silently begged these people to pay very close attention because they were about to have their worlds changed forever.
But then, like any good experience, I found myself enjoying re-living those same moments, just the way I would if I were listening to a favorite song, or watching for the billionth time one of my favorite movies.
I didn't care if I knew I was going to hear something I had heard before, I was actually listening for it, waiting for it, and, of course, hoping that everyone else would revel in it, too. And, yes, I think they did.
Last night's Happiness lecture reminded of the time, a number years ago, when we had tickets to hear Victor Borge. We were polite, an appreciative audience, (in Asheville, NC, the stage set outdoors on the terrace of the Biltmore estate, overlooking the Smokey Mountains). But we didn't really come alive until Borge started doing his old routines, the ones that first made us laugh all those years ago. We fairly screamed when the elderly Borge fell off his piano bench while his beautiful opera singer belted out some aria or another. It was the 'old' stuff that drew us there in the first place. The kids in the audience even got the jokes. I don't think you can get enough of a good thing.
There was another process going on in my mind when I should have been listening to Dennis. I love watching couples, not necessarily married couples, it just has to be two people who know each other well. I like to observe their body language when they are sharing the same experience. They are subtly sharing it with each other through whispers, side glances, and the hardly-noticed leanings into one another, as if to say, "Did you hear that?" They don't usually turn fully frontally and face their companion because that might be too much of a distraction or intrusive. Most of these communications, of course, are designed to go unnoticed by anyone else.
I can see why this sharing of the "Dennis Prager experience" is analogous to the Deadhead one, and why we are then drawn to communing with each other every month at our Dennis Prager Group meetings.
But I think my most memorable and perhaps profound "Wow!" moment last night came when Dennis spoke of the minister who surprised his congregation one Sunday when he told them, "God isn't enough." From our human beginning God knew that He wasn't going to be enough for us, that we were going to need other people. It just so happened that Adam needed a wife (don't they all!) but more importantly God knew that Adam needed someone other than God Himself. Who would have thought! Even Will Rogers would have appreciated that revelation!
Pragerheads come from very diverse experiences, some religious, some secular and some combination of secu-religious ones, but Dennis reminded us last night where happiness needs to come from and that we owe it to other people to at least act happy even if we're not feeling it at the moment.
Dennis also spent a good bit of time on how the Chronically Unhappy and 'Moody' people can have an adverse effect on children, too. I felt empathy for the young father in the audience, the one who was looking for advice on how to keep a three-year-old from becoming a chronic complainer. (I'm not sure if the young father ever heard someone say, "If you don't stop that crying I'm going to give you something to REALLY cry about!" The line worked on me as a child so I used it on my kids.) Dennis did his best to offer advice but in the end he fell back on the one staple and really ancient tenet: You'll figure it out.
Like most important experiences I will regurgitate pieces of the evening over time and it will be as though I am just tasting these morsels for the first time.
I also feel a little like a pearl diver who already knew what was inside that crusty old shell but then was surprised to find there were two pearls this time. One pearl looked a lot like all the other pearls and then there was this new one, one I hadn't ever imagined before.
I look forward to hearing from you about the other pearls you found last night. Send me your emails or log on here yourself and we can all re-live the night.
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