Moishe House New Orleans on PBS!

Posted on Saturday, 29th August 2009 by 2M

One of the organizations The Morton H. Meyerson Family Tzedakah Fund supports is The Moishe House in New Orleans. They were featured this week on PBS.
PBS Story

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Connecting Nature's Dots

Posted on Sunday, 23rd August 2009 by 2M

Morton sends along this column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times:

Maybe we need to go on safari and get our instincts back to invest and run businesses?

Link – NYT Op-Ed – Connecting Nature’s Dots

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Rethinking my reaction to Wedding Song

Posted on Saturday, 22nd August 2009 by 2M

Morton has some additional thoughts about Wedding Song (original post):

I have been replaying this movie in my head since I left San Fran. The music choices were either exotic or inappropriate and some of the lines and actions were amateurish BUT what I learned about Tunisia during early WWII and the relations between Jews and [...]

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Concert for the Homeless

Posted on Friday, 21st August 2009 by 2M

Dr. Jonathan Palant of the Turtle Creek Chorale has a new blog post and youtube video about yesterday’s Concert for the Homeless. The Meyerson family believes very deeply in the value of the arts and is thrilled to support this event.
A Message from Jonathan – The Stew Pot Chorus

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Still Life Part II

Posted on Monday, 17th August 2009 by 2M

An update to our previous post, Still Life.

This slideshow was sent to me by Mike Levy, who originally suggested I read this important article. The 7 minute slide show narrated by Skip will help you understand the story from a different angle than just reading it.
Morton of Dallas
From M2 of Austin, A Nerd Special:

A byte [...]

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Still Life

Posted on Sunday, 16th August 2009 by 2M

Morton sends along an article from Texas Monthly and the letter he wrote to the author, Skip Hollandsworth.

I wrote the following to the author of Texas Monthly’s May article “Still Life.” It summarizes how I felt about the story and why I think you should consider taking the time to read it. This story [...]

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Habitat for Humanity

Posted on Tuesday, 11th August 2009 by 2M

This summer 2M and E2M employees volunteered to help Habitat for Humanity build a home for a wonderful family in south Dallas. Briggs Equipment was a major supporter of this project as well.
The house was dedicated Saturday, August 8th!
Thanks to all the employees (and their spouses) that helped make this happen.
Below are a few pictures [...]

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Movie Review – In the Loop

Posted on Sunday, 2nd August 2009 by 2M

Here are Morton’s thoughts:

I saw In the Loop and must say if you can tolerate massive bad mouth words then see this movie for sure. The language is terrible, but somehow it fits the personalities and actions of the characters. This nutty satire is very entertaining and probably could happen. Maybe the ultimate conclusion is [...]

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