title: A DAILY DOSE OF KINDNESS, Stories from the Heart, A Response to Terror, Book One: In Love with Israel
author:  Shmuel Greenbaum 
description: Reading stories from A Daily Dose of Kindness about the goodness of friend to friend, family to family, and stranger to stranger can help to bridge the gaps between cultures and religions; it can transform a world filled with callousness and conceit into a world or caring; it can turn strangers into friends. --Dr. Abraham Twerski, Author and Director of Gateway Rehabilitation Center Pittsburgh, PA<br /><br />Reading these kindness stories ... gives me more hope for mankind than anything else in my life. --Julia Bail, Staff Assistant, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD<br /><br />You have made a difference in my life by keeping the idea of kindness in my mind every day. We are what we think. Your emails encourage me and I am sure others, that there are people out there who are doing acts of kindness, we are not alone. --Tamar Yonah, Talk Show Host, Israel National Radio
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  As I wrote this book, the singular and beautiful music of the late
  
  
  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole was always playing. I hope that the
  
  
  reader finds pleasure in my story equal to the joy and
  
  
  consolation that I found in the voice, the spirit, and the heart of
  
  
  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
  
  
  As I was finishing this book, Carol Bowers and her family spent
  
  
  a day here, under the auspices of the Dream Foundation.
  
  
  Carol, having read this book, you'l understand why your visit,
  
  
  coming when it did, reinforced what I believe about the uncanny
  
  
  interconnectedness of things and about the profound and
  
  
  mysterious meaning in al our lives.
  
  
  Each smal est act of kindness reverberates across great
  
  
  distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one
  
  
  whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo,
  
  
  because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's
  
  
  passed, until a simple Courtesy becomes an act of selfless
  
  
  courage years later and far away. Likewise, eac