This is fabulous. I work with the league of women voters to help students at our local high school in Hamilton registered to vote. Civics classes returning to the schools would be amazing and getting more kids to vote would be changing for our country. Thanks for all you do.
Peace,
Jenn
I remember when I saw the video they submitted for the first Leading Ladies film contest. This young man is just amazing. I spoke with Therese about what you saw and she said it was so heartwarming to see these people together and to have services available to them as well as a good meal. I love that his father reminded him of how many seconds in a day there are that you can do something for others and Michael is doing it. Such a wonderful thing.
Thanks very much to the Cabot and Leading Ladies for co-sponsoring this important and informative event. And thanks to the great moderator and panelists for their participation and life saving efforts to reduce tragic gun deaths and injuries of children, women and men. (not signed)
The letter reads so well and the resources you added are very helpful. EW
Thank you for this piece and the materials that explain the underlying history. Getting the story right is the basis for a solution and the antidote to the infections of antisemitism and Islamophobia. AM
I wanted to thank you, especially for this particular missive, as I completely agree that everybody becomes very reactive, and does not fully understand the issues. I appreciate your explanation and references! EM
My understanding is that before the 1948 much of the land occupied by Jews had been purchased, not seized. What muddies the water is that while the purchases were made in good faith, land ownership was often not clear. Under the Ottoman Empire one had a right to live on the land they had worked for years and generations, but there was no or little Western-style documentation of ownership. The purchases that didn't involve the people actually living on the land left a great many people bitter.
Thank you for this and many other thought provoking essays.
Bottom-line, as you mentioned in your essay, there are many small to big conflicts between biological parents and their children as well as foster and adoptive parents and their children - from playing/not playing sports, going to college or not vs a vocational school or no school to political/social beliefs and acting on any belief or feeling including a drive for transgender LGBTQ. (I always told my two adopted kids that they could do whatever they wanted to do as long as they did not hurt themselves or anyone else - physically or emotionally.
Altho I do not believe the same as the parents you describe, I very much respect their rights to hold these values. And, I hope that these parents and any adoptive children can "work to out".
On the otherhand, if they cannot, would this be emotional child abuse and would the child need to be removed for its own health?
Kind regards,
GR
Great article...thanks for sharing!
MD
Thanks for writing this. A moving story.
I too will be seeing homeless people in a different way
GW
Great lede!
DK