This is another piece I played at Lincoln Center for a World Mission Foundation benefit concert, which raised $2,500 for AIDS/HIV funding. The director, Kevin Marin, asked specifically for a Jewish song and as luck would have it, I knew this piece from a Holocaust Remembrance Observance from my Army days. The song, a Jewish lullaby, is beautiful yet haunting, as it was heard among concentration camps during WWII. I apologize that the first few seconds are cut off. You can also see my video camera in the reflection - I had to get creative to get the clip from the professionally recorded DVD. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the performance.
Needless to say, my favorite part of our Thailand vacation, was our week long volunteering at Elephant Nature Park ! The logging industry was banned in Thailand in 1989, leaving thousands of elephants unemployed. These elephants are now used for tourism. You may have heard of elephant shows featuring the animals playing soccer or painting pictures with their trunks. They are no doubt amazing to watch, but the sad truth is that these elephants have gone through a series of torture and abuse to "break their spirit" by their trainers. This short clip is very hard to watch, but it will give you an idea of what the elephants in captivity in the country of Thailand go through. The only elephants in Thailand who do not endure this, are the very few baby elephants who are first generation born in "safe captivity" at places like Elephant Nature Park. Every other elephant at this park has been brutally abused. Some have been blinded by their owners, le
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