On Wednesday, thousands of students nationwide walked out in protest of gun violence. I was one of them, along with some of my classmates from the Heschel School. We proudly joined in the national movement, bringing our Jewishness to our activism as so many have before us. But not all Jewish schools joined the walkout….
Students at Jewish schools across the country participated in Wednesday’s national school walkout against gun violence — but for students at the nation’s largest Jewish school, the effort to join started weeks before, when they realized they had to persuade the administration that it was the right thing to do. Students at the Charles E….
NEW YORK (JTA) — Students at Jewish day schools offered prayers, lit candles and demanded change as part of a nationwide student walkout calling for gun reform in the wake of last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Students around the country walked out of class for 17 minutes at 10 a.m. Wednesday to pressure Congress…
On February 14, I was glued to the television as events unfolded in Parkland. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is fewer than 50 miles from where I live, and the events seemed all too close to home. I have three children who attend a Jewish day school in Miami and my wife works there as…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. On March 24th, together with my 14 year old daughter and 9 year old son, I will be spending Shabbat differently than we normally do, as participants in the March For Our Lives in Washington, DC. As a doctor, researcher, and a Jew, I believe gun control…
Thousands of shoes were placed on the lawn of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning as part of a protest against school shootings. The display of worn shoes, which were intended to draw Congress’ attention to children who have died from gun violence, was inspired in part by memorials to the Holocaust,…
The Pollack family became public activists and media notables not by choice, but because of personal tragedy. Meadow Pollack, daughter of Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan, was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. She was one of the victims killed on February 15th. She was 18. “She was the baby…
I don’t have the room to debate the variables that create a ruthless killer. But I do have the room to briefly point out the benefits of a society that appreciates marksmanship. Understandably, there are those who have a visceral reaction to the destructive potential of firearms. As an experienced school psychologist, I am well…
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