Dear Friends,

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the premier of Time of my Life.

You truly honored Simcha Esther's life and legacy and we're grateful you could be with us.

The hall was packed and the atmosphere was both excited and solemn. It was great to see people of all walks of life and all faiths really coming together united by one thing: love of Simcha Esther. Your strong showing of support is a source of strength to us. A fitting tribute to her dreams and very inspiring. Thank you.

(I'm sorry I missed seeing some of you and couldn't personally greet everyone (I tried!), but I'm deeply grateful to all of you.)

As it says in the Talmud, "Poschin b'chvod achsania" ("First, thank the hosts"): Many thanks to Jeff Goad and the team at Symphony Space for hosting us.

Thank you to Simcha Esther's family, especially her Mom, Dad, Step-mom and brothers for support and for being good sports in their film debut.

Huge thanks to Tsvika for a tremendous job throughout and a terrific film.

Thanks to Ella K. for post-production advisory, for the Q&A and for support throughout.

A special thanks to Dini F. who came in from Beijing, to Lisa M. from Israel and all those who came from faraway San Diego, St. Louis, Miami, Baltimore, Brooklyn and other exotic locales.

To Dr Krug, Diana and the Sloan Kettering staff who joined us.

To Aish HaTorah for the hall for the after-event and to Rachel and her team for catering.

To the sponsors of the after-event, ASG Realty and the Schweibel, Skydell and Haberman families.

To Alisa A. for liaison with Symphony Space and handling the ticketing, and to Eeris K. for event support.

To the PR team volunteers: Sarah Z., Nancy M., Naama N. and Tzvi F.

To Lauren F. of www.save1person.org for PR help.

To my sister and bro-in law for their support and to my nieces Rivka, Zahava, Avigail, Shaina and Bassy.

To Malka L. for all the preparations and for taking the kids out for ice cream.

To the R. family and Chaviva for taking Oriel for a sleepover.

A special personal thanks to Peter S. and Josh L. - thanks for being there for Simcha Esther and for me, great seeing you both.

To Simcha Esther's High School friends and to Danna her BFF from childhood, thank you for coming.

Special thanks to Jessica Abo of NY1 for the TV coverage (and staying up all night!)

To Steve Sandberg for coverage on 1010 WINS.

To Nachum Segal and JM in the AM for the radio interview and to Staci Segal for joining us and for the chizuk (encouragement).

To Denny and Debbie B. for chizuk - great to see you there.

To Michael Rose for coming down from Boston - missed you bro but heard you were there.

I know some folks weren't able to make it or couldn't get tickets, if anyone's interested in being on the advance purchase list for the DVD, please email us: info@timeofmylife.us

There were some special comments left on the guestbook ( http://www.timeofmylife.us/guestbook.asp )

Check these out:

Hello my name is Marty I was the Projectionist that ran the projector
for the time of my life on october 22nd at Sym Space I just wanted everyone connected
with this movie to know that I felt honored to be involved with this Documentary and
hope it is shown all over the world to give many people hope to help them thru there lives.
-- Marty

I feel inspired and deeply moved by the film tonight. There are so many lessons, messages,
and inspirations to be taken from the life of both you, Yoni and the life of Simcha Esther.
There are no words to explain the depth of her life. May she continue inspiring from the
legacy she has left. -- Shaindy

I couldn't go to bed tonight before I told you how beautiful the film was, how it captured what
I knew of Simcha Esther, and so much of what I didn't.  She lived life to the fullest, made the
most of every moment. --Debbie

Watch this space for upcoming events and further film news.

Blessings,

Yoni

Dear Friends,

Well the film premier is a few hours away.

We have completely sold out all tickets and I look forward to seeing many of you there.

Thank you to everyone who helped promote this event.

Especially Steve Sandberg at 1010 WINS who had a piece running today and Nachum Segal of JM in the AM.

We did an interview on Nachum's radio show this morning. You can listen here: Flash Audio Player  if that doesn't open try this: MP3

(NOTE: he first plays the older interview with Simcha Esther from one year ago and then follows with a live interview of me.)

With Blessings,

Yoni

Dear Friends,

An expanded version of Ruchama's article about Simcha Esther ("Holy Chutzpah") with pictures! was picked up by aish.com

Check out the Aish website ( www.aish.com ) it's today's headline article.

It's also in our PR links under "The Buzz".

Please let your local newpspapers, magazines etc know about it.

(Note: This is for all media, not just Jewish media.)

Just email  them the url of our press release:  www.timeofmylife.us/press_release.htm

Thank you!

Yoni