Whom you serve

This week I read a devar Torah that began with the following words.

We all know the story, HaShem created tablets containing the 10 Commandments which were miraculously spiritual in their disposition (which reflected the lofty state of the Jewish people at that time).
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This morning I was at a meeting with a few women and we were talking about the concept of "kochi veotzem yadi"- when one attributes successes to oneself rather than to Hashem. One acquaintance related how she complimented a woman this week about how well behaved her children were. The woman thanked her and acknowledged that she put in a lot of effort in child rearing. My acquaintance felt that the woman should have at least included how Hashem had also helped her.

Last week I posted about a judge who was "overseeing a lawsuit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments in a Virginia public high school " who urged the sides to consider removing those Commandments which have reference to G-d. Perhaps we have lost our merit because we don't mention Hashem enough.
The World Jewish Review has an article by Dennis Prager in which he discusses a speech made by Mitt Romney.

On Saturday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the 6,000 Liberty College graduates.
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Romney: "You know who you are. And you know whom you will serve. Not all colleges instill that kind of confidence . . . ."

This is a truism. Most American universities seek to graduate men and women who are as committed to secularism as nearly all the members of faculty are. In contrast, at traditional Christian and Jewish schools, the aim is, as Romney said, to produce students who know "whom [they] will serve."
What Romney is asking is this: If one is not morally accountable to God, to whom or what is one morally accountable? Most universities will respond: to one's conscience. But those who adhere to Judeo-Christian values do not trust the conscience alone.
Read full article:  http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0512/prager051512.php3

Finally Chadrei Charedim reports that a big simcha took place at the Mir Yeshiva when an "alte bachur" who is 52  got engaged yesterday to a 40-year-old woman. Mazal Tov! There is a G-d.

For those who understand Hebrew, there is a wonderful article at Anash News.