May 29; Lunch with Ela Greenberg; Meet Ela at Paridisio. Ela is the daughter of my mentor at Michigan, G.R.Greenberg or Bob to everyone. He was an incredible scientist who should have gotten the Nobel prize for his work on the pathway for producing the purine base used in DNA and ATP. the energy converter in all cells. Anyway, his daughter made aliya , got her Ph.D. at Hebrew University with dissertation on education of girls during the the British mandate period and has been published as a  book. Estelle (z''l) and I were good friends with her mother too. I visited Ela and family in 2008. She works for Rabbis for Human Rights  as fund raiser and  is passionate about justice or the lack of it for the Arabs in Israel and in the territories. Israel isn't perfect in many aspects and this is one of them. This organization gives lectures on Human Rights from a Torah and Rabbinical views  to soldiers, students at many Universities, and a different sites by Rabbis from Conservative, Reform and even a few Orthodox rabbis. We had a very interesting discussions on many key issues. Her husband is a lawyer and their 2 daughters goes to a school with Jews and Arabs where  the students learn Hebrew and Arabic. The students  are really mixed and friends formed with all. Ela drives her daughters to many Arab areas for play dates. However in 6 th grade the kids split in separate schools.