Woman, 25, announces her own death from cancer in viral final letter

A 25-year-old woman who’d been healthy and active until she suddenly developed bile duct cancer has written a final, poignant message announcing her death and urging people to “enjoy the little things in life.”

Daniella Thackray’s funeral was held on Monday, March 18, her fiancé, Tom Calvert tells TODAY.com.

“I LOVED my life. Everything I had achieved was what I wanted. I loved my job, my fiancé, my family, my friends and my dog, and the house we were going to buy and the future we were making for ourselves,” Thackray wrote.

“I chose not to mourn the life I was losing despite being so devastated, but to instead enjoy every moment I had left.”

She worked as a people administrator for an advertising agency in Leeds, England, describing herself as “very healthy and active” until she was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer that forms in the bile ducts, in July 2023.

Even though her life was never the same again, she wrote, she chose to focus on everyone and everything she loved.

“We can’t control what happens to us, (but) we can control how we react,” Thackray added.

“You should enjoy the little things in life and cherish every moment! Romanticise your life! Do whatever makes you happy and don’t let anyone take the joy of life away from you.”

She finished the letter with a message to her fiancé: "Go enjoy your life now, you deserve it."

The 25-year-old was the most enthusiastic and cheerful person, Liz Reynolds, her manager at 26 Agency wrote when announcing her death. The company is fundraising for St Gemma’s hospice in Leeds in her memory.

Feuding Satmar Brothers Asking Their Followers To "maaser" To tattletale All Who Use the Eirav!

 

While most Jews living in Chutz Le'aaretz are careful how they walk the streets, afraid of being beaten by their Goyishe neighbors, and while Jews in Israel are being attacked from the South and the North, what are the Brothers - Satmar doing? 

They can't plan trips to the State of Israel, because they wouldn't G-d forbid travel on El AL, as the Ribbono Shel Olam made sure that only El Al flies to Israel. Hashem has some sense of humor!

Are they urging their followers to write letters pressuring their Congressmen and Senators to lay off Israel? 

In fact I'm old enough to remember When R' Aron Teitelbaum backed Obama's Iran Deal, , I posted  back in 2015, Satmar's perfidy against the Jews people living in Israel, asking their followers to write letters to their Congressmen to back the Obama's Iran Deal!

So during all this turmoil what are the Satmar Rebbes worried about?

They want their followers to tattletale on their neighbors if they see them carrying on Shabbos using the Eirav! The Zalonis (top photo) are even providing a phone number to call! 

When it comes to sexual predators they don't allow "mesirah" the victims are prohibited to "ma'sar" on their perpetrators, but to "ma'sar" on a neighbor who uses an Eirav permitted by Gedoiei Hador then "me'sira" is permitted and encouraged! 

Hamas Beat the Crap Out of Old Man Because He Took Some Food Off a "Humanitarian" Truck

 

Rebbe Talks to G-d With His Eyes Rolled Back into His Head! Big Huge Tzaddik!

 

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Yad Binyamin: The entire yishuv went out to the streets with Israeli flags in memory of the hero Daniel Peretz who fought on October 7th.

 

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Huge Headache Ben & Jerry's getting the boot from parent after years of political controversy

 

Multinational conglomerate Unilever, the owner of some 400 brands, announced Tuesday it is spinning off its ice cream business — including major names like Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Magnum, Popsicle and Klondike — after more than a century.

The consumer goods giant said the move was part of a growth strategy that would create a leaner business. At the same time, by shedding Ben & Jerry's, Unilever is ridding itself of a longtime headache.

Since its founding in 1978, Ben & Jerry's has been known for its left-leaning advocacy, and the Vermont-based ice cream maker was able to maintain an independent board of directors to continue its progressive activism even after it sold to Unilever in 2000.

But in recent years, the unique structure of the deal that allowed Ben & Jerry's to wade into controversial issues without interference has pulled Unilever into the fray, too.

Candace Owens endorses outlandish antisemitic conspiracy theory alleging Jews are ‘drunk on Christian blood'

 

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Candace Owens, a prominent figure at the Daily Wire, recently expressed support for an ancient conspiracy theory alleging that Jewish religious leaders engage in the ritualistic consumption of Christian blood.

Owens, who has been increasingly critical of Israel and the Jewish community, has sparked controversy with her remarks.

In a public spat with fellow commentator Ben Shapiro, Owens made remarks interpreted as antisemitic. She declared, "You cannot serve both God and money," a statement widely viewed as an antisemitic shot at Shapiro.

Owens has further stoked tensions by attributing the rise in antisemitism to "political Jews" and suggesting a conspiracy involving a "small ring" of Jewish individuals in Hollywood and Washington, DC.

She concluded, "All of us Black, Spanish, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, all Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister."

BBC’s anti-Israel bias becoming very dangerous

 

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BBC News is plunging new depths when it comes to its reporting of the Israel-Hamas war. In doing so, it is bringing shame on a publicly-funded organisation.

Earlier this month, BBC News CEO Deborah Turness was asked in Parliament about a column I had written for this newspaper about the anti-Israel bias of journalists working for its heavily promoted BBC Verify brand. An investigation had found that a source used by the BBC for its Gaza coverage was a journalist who apparently worked for a news agency associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which is committed to Israel’s destruction. The journalist’s social-media timeline also contained anti-Semitic material.

When challenged on this at a House of Lords committee, Ms Turness’s response was very revealing. First, she dismissed the reporting because it was “positioned in a hostile media outlet” – The Telegraph. This is a remarkable thing to say. It suggests that the BBC’s approach is to ignore legitimate criticism if it does not like where it comes from.

The idea that you can dismiss evidence of journalistic malpractice because it is in a newspaper you don’t like reveals institutional arrogance and political bias. It enables the BBC to remain immune to criticism rather than act to remedy the problems with its reporting of the war.

Even worse were the BBC News CEO’s claims of transparency. Ms Turness told the Committee that the BBC is “very clear about where it sources” its reporting from and that the BBC had been “transparent in our account and in our journalism”.

Meshiginar Deri Asks Hostage Delegations to Wait Till After Shabbos

 

DIN: Personally the entire staff of DIN is against "Hostage Negotiations" even on a regular Sunday! "Hostage Negotiations" is not going to end this war it will only prolong it! But the fact that Deri wanted Israel to wait till after Shabbos shows you the total disconnect between Chareidim and the rest of the Jewish people. I will bet that if the hostages were "Shomer Shabbat" he would have told the government to NEVER stop negotiating. Besides, Deri's statement is a huge Chillul Hashem! 

Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri sparked controversy over the weekend by reportedly asking members of the War Cabinet to delay the departure of an Israeli delegation for hostage negotiations in Qatar until after Shabbos.

In response, opposition and Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid tweeted a link to a Hebrew media report of Deri’s alleged demand along with the caption: “If this isn’t pikuach nefesh, then what is?”

For his part, Yisrael Beiteinu Party chief Avigdor Liberman tweeted: “Deri, what is more pikuach nefesh than returning the kidnapped?”

Liberman included a quote from Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 252:3: “Every moment that one delays unnecessarily the ransoming of a captive, it is as if he were to shed blood.”

The backlash prompted a vehement denial from Deri, who accused his opponents of trying to score political points at the expense of the captives held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Former Shas lawmaker Chaim Amsalem told JNS that if the negotiations have a realistic chance of succeeding, then “violating Shabbos can be done and should be done by the highest religious authorities. Delaying it is a very serious offense.

“Once those involved confirm the urgency of the situation, we must enforce halachah,” said Amsalem, while qualifying that he could not himself make a determination on this specific issue because he is not privy to the details of the talks.

“Just like how a rabbi can’t assess whether a person is fit to fast on Yom Kippur [and only a doctor can],” he noted.

JNS spoke with several rabbis who all stressed the importance of erring on the side of caution—namely, life—when determining when pikuach nefesh applies.

Tefillos for Yigal Calek, Famed Founder of London School of Jewish Song

 

The famed composer and director of the London School of Jewish Song, Yigal Calek, is in need of rachamei Shomayim. His name for Tehillim is Yigal Yisrael ben Blima Gittel.

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Yigal led London School of Jewish Song. The Israel-born mechanech had a flamboyant style and exceptional ear for music that propelled his young proteges into stardom across the Jewish world.

Curiously, although Yigal is undoubtedly an innovator, he is also deeply traditional. Thus, while his songs have always been very much in tune with modernity and the zeitgeist, they are nonetheless firmly embedded in the music of the Jewish yesteryear.

Audiences flocked to the choir’s concerts in London, Paris, Yerushalayim, New York and Los Angeles – among countless other cities – and the albums became the musical backdrop for that generation.

That generation all hummed Yigal’s tunes, used them for tefillos, danced to them at weddings, and played the LPs until the scratches rendered the records unplayable.

Yigal, as is well known, has always been a demanding, exacting perfectionist. His rehearsals famously lasted for hours. Every note had to be perfect, every harmony flawlessly synchronized. But it was all worth it in the end. The results were stunning, and the audience appreciation gushing.

And so it continued for a few more years, until eventually Yigal disbanded his choir and turned to other things. From time to time he would reappear with a new group to belt out a few hits in a tribute medley at a variety concert, but that was it. The London School of Jewish Song was no more.

More recently, Yigal has suffered some very difficult health issues and word went around that he needed tefillos: Yigal Yisrael ben Blima Gitel. And so it was that a few of the old choir “boys” decided to arrange an evening of song and nostalgia to cheer his spirits. On the last night of Chanukah in 2021, the impromptu gathering took place – just a couple of dozen guys around a table at someone’s home in Golders Green. Most of them are already grandfathers, all of them were there to cheer up their childhood hero.

Watch the clip below: