It was wonderful to kiss you and hold you today for the first time. Rachel and I flew to Israel from the Czech Republic this morning to see you. You clearly have a fine head of beautiful black hair and very strong lungs. I can honestly say that you are the most perfect baby.
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Day two of your life is of particular importance because it was on 6th August 1945, exactly 65 years ago, when the world’s first atomic bomb was released, incinerating the Japanese city of Hiroshima under a towering mushroom cloud and killing more than 200,000 people. Last year, the newly elected U.S. President Barak Obama came to Prague where I live to give a speech calling for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. It is my profound hope that this will happen during the course of your lifetime and that the atom bomb will never fall anywhere again.
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Tomorrow, on Shabbat, we will find out your name when it is announced in synagogue. I can’t wait!
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Grandpa Jonathan (Jerusalem, Israel)
