Good Evening Moishe House!
I write tonight on the tail end of my Thanksgiving trip where I drove many many hours out east and back for a wonderful Thanksgiving time full of food, and activities INCLUDING ice skating which I am REALLY feeling right now. In Chicago, things are buzzing with excitement after Obama was elected and has chosen to stay in Chicago for the interim until he takes office as our new president. Having grown up here in Chicago, I now feel completely overwhelmed with the sheer pride I have in my city. I think it's interesting to think about a city as a living thing; something that changes as it ebbs and flows through the chaos of time. Also, I am now so much more aware of all the great people that have come through this city (Morris included!)and feel so happy to be able to call myself, at least for a time, a Chicagoan. I will leave it at that. I hope everyone is well and that as we move to close 2008, we are able to the years ahead as a kind of new frontier in our nation's history. We have a lot of challenges yet to face, but I now officially have faith in our country and global community that we will be able to take on those challenges and be the masters of our own destiny yet again.
-Ilana Schuman-Stoler
Moishe House Chicago
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