Operatic Healing
Doctors at a Tel Aviv hospice were pleasantly surprised recently when a comatose patient woke up after six weeks following “opera sessions” performed by his mother.
According to Hebrew press, the 30-year-old was in a bicycle accident that rendered him vegetative. After 17 days, he was declared unresponsive to external stimuli & transferred from the hospital to a facility for comatose patients.
The man’s mom, a former opera singer, began singing bits from operas by his bedside and within six weeks he was responding to his wife and children with eye movements. He then reacted to staff-generated musical cues and eventually he came out of the coma altogether.
Hospital staff speculate that the opera music stimulated his brain prompting him to “wake up”.
“The parts of the brain that recognize patterns and rhythm and connect them to language comprehension and expression helped rouse the patient,” explained Dr. Avraham Lazri of the hospice. “His mother’s singing apparently sparked childhood memories and helped bring him back to consciousness.”
Turandot or Madame Butterfly, anyone?
Foto Friday #42
We all weathered THE BIG STORM that was supposed to hit with a vengeance this week (joke’s on us, kiddies) and are now getting hit with some gorgeoso weather.
Join us now as we partake of photos brought to us by Israelity reader/writer, photographer, and musician Sol who hails from America and Canada.
Sol currently resides in Israel and volunteers with the OTZMA post-graduate service program. When not volunteering he explores Israel through travel, photography and blogging.
Check out more of his stuff here…Thanks, Sol & a Happy Friday to All!
Politics, tourism & religious clash at the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mt.
Eerie multicolored lights at night, Kiryat Moriah Jewish Agency compound garden
A Christian pilgrim gestures heavenward under the weight of his cross, Jerusalem Old City.
Long exposure produces ghostly results in Haifa’s Stella Maris Catholic Church
Parental Warning
Moms and Dads everywhere:
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR KIDS MOVE TO ISRAEL AND YOU DON’T COME VISIT OFTEN ENOUGH
Let this serve as a warning.
The WHOLE TORAH…Ouch!!!
No Messing
Yesterday IsRealli blogged that Ha’Dag Nachash – a pretty popular Israeli hip-hop group – performs the theme track to Adam Sandler’s to be released this summer movie You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.
It’s about an ex-Mossad agent turned hairdresser.
On the way to finding the music link, I found the movie trailer..ENJOY!
Gays Shaking it Up
Forget seismic retrofitting and building codes.
Repent. And give up sodomy too. Then MAYBE but maybe we won’t have to worry about earthquakes anymore.
Because to hear Israeli parliament member Shlomo Ben-Izri tell it…
“Why do earthquakes happen? One of the reasons is the things to which the Knesset (parliament) gives legitimacy, to sodomy.”
“A cost-effective way of averting earthquake damage,” he added, “would be to stop passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the State of Israel, which anyways causes earthquakes.”
Ben-Izri was addressing a Knesset plenum debate on earthquake preparedness.
If you want to read more on his remarks, go here.
Steph’s comments:
1) Sounds like an “in the closet” case to me
2) Ben-Izri should seriously consider lecturing in San Francisco.
Heck, maybe it’ll do some good. We all know who lives there and what the earthquake history is…
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