A DAILY DOSE OF KINDNESS, Stories from the Heart, A Response to Terror, Book One: In Love with Israel

by Shmuel Greenbaum, Shmuel Greenbaum (Editor)

Overview

A Daily Dose of Kindness is a diverse compilation of stories and practical lessons submitted from one hundred contributors.

The first book, which focuses on Israel, encourages multi-cultural understanding. It was created by hundreds of volunteers and financial supporters from many different religions and nationalities, working together to bring new hope to Israel, the Middle East and the world.

Although A Daily Dose of Kindness was written for audiences of all ages, parents and grandparents report that young children love the book, since the stories are written in a short and easy-to-read manner.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013781405
Publisher:	Partners in Kindness
Publication date:	12/26/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	159 KB

About the Author

Every week a Moslem man in Singapore forwards an e-mail to his co-religionists in that Asian island nation... An Evangelical Christian couple in Texas makes photocopies of it and gives them to all the members of their church and female prisoners throughout the Lone Star State… A Catholic Pastoral Counselor reads it to patients at a hospital in Peoria, Illinois… The principal of a Jewish high school in Chicago tacks it to a bulletin board… While atheists throughout the world forward it to their friends and loved ones.

It all started on a hot summer day in 2001 when a young man carrying a guitar case walked into a crowded Jerusalem restaurant and detonated a bomb, killing himself and 27 other people. One of them was my wife, Shoshana, who was pregnant with our first child.

I had been the happiest man in the world married to the most wonderful woman in the world. We had just moved into a new home and our heads were filled with wonderful dreams. Then in an instant I became the loneliest man in the world. I lived in fear that terrorists would track me down and kill me and perhaps kill hundreds of people in the United States as they had my wife and my unborn child.

What pulled me through this tragedy were the people who were there for me in my darkest hours—the friends and relatives who supported me with my physical and emotional needs and the strangers who opened their hearts to relieve my burdens.
On January 1, 2002, four months after Shoshana’s murder, I met with a group of friends in my community to discuss what we could do to make the world a better place. We decided to start a daily email newsletter to offer readers stories of kindness. We called the newsletter A Daily Dose of Kindness and our organization Partners in Kindness.

After a few months, we introduced a second email called Kind Words, which was syndicated, free of charge, around the world. In addition to stories, these emails also contained scientific insights on kindness and sensitivity enhancement techniques.

The emails spread far and wide. During the first five years, Partners in Kindness had granted permission for our stories and kindness techniques to appear in eight languages in print and electronic media reaching a circulation of more than 1.5 million readers on six continents.

Editorial Reviews

Shmuel Greenbaum tragically lost his wife in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem one month before 9/11. Instead of allowing himself to be overwhelmed by grief or anger, Shmuel found himself amazed by the kindness of strangers and friends, and has devoted himself since to telling the stories of what Wordsworth called “That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

This lovely book will restore your faith in human nature

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks