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“…because I am a mom of a child with an intellectual disability — I feel great pressure to put into place everything my 15-year-old son will need after my husband and I are no longer here,” wrote Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer in her Exit Ramp (“My birthday is wrapped up with my son’s future,” July 12). She writes about how there is so much to arrange, such as setting up a special needs trust, registering at the county’s department of behavioral health, and looking into housing options and day programs for...
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If not for a game of Ping-Pong, Harriett and Sandy Krasky might never have met. In the early 1940s, while he was a student at what was then Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology), Sandy had been invited by his cousin, a student at...
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My husband and I were in the Ghetto of Rome, enjoying a meal in a kosher restaurant when a woman who looked strikingly like a friend of mine from bygone days walked in. So I stared. I could see that she sensed it and I rushed to apologize. “I am truly sorry to be so rude, but you look so much like my old friend, Sheila W.” “I am Sheila W.” was the instant response. “And you are Rosanne and Alvin Skopp.” We hadn’t seen each other in at least 30 years...
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Israel’s new nation-state law represents numerous challenges to what a democracy should stand for. There are all sorts of issues which it raises, and which have been extensively discussed. It appears, however, that there was inadequate consultation or consideration given to how Israel’s Druze community would respond to the new law. Over the past weeks fissures have opened up between the Jewish majority and Israel’s Druze minority. The Druze leaders potentially threaten this new law in ways which are even more significant challenges to the Israeli Government than those presented...
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Political polarization in the United States today is probably as bad it has been since the Civil War. There is fundamental dislike of various parts and groups of the nation for the other. There is less and less political conversation and virtually no dialogue. Political conversation today consists largely of different perspectives being thrown at each other. This is manifested in Washington, in the Congress, between parties, and even at the state and local levels. It is also present at dinner tables and even in primary school classrooms. People...
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