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On America’s 250th Birthday, We Must Light The Way With Joy

Dear Editor:

Thank You

Dear Editor:

All I can say is “Wow.” The letters and articles from the past couple of weeks from parents of children with special needs have been eye-opening. I have a cousin who has a teenager with special needs, and there is a family on my block. We, the public, pretend not to notice or try not to stare too much, and especially try not to think too much about what that family is going through, but now we have a small taste of their life.

Why Were So Many Yeshivos Missing From The Parade?

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Protecting our Holiness

Dear Editor:

This past week, a story broke in the Jerusalem Post advertising an upcoming Pride festival in Israel. It was advertised as the biggest Pride festival in the Middle East, happening from June 1 through June 4. It is being promoted as a fabulous, amazing event for men, women, and children, and it will be taking place, of all places, at the Dead Sea. The irony of this news breaking right before the Shabbos Parshah of Kedoshim cannot be lost. This, of course, is only one event: In addition, there will be plenty of others in Israel throughout the month of June, a designated month to celebrate the LGBTQ agenda.

Stopping The Skyscraper

Dear Editor:

I was very happy to see last week that the 47- and 42-story skyscrapers for our neighborhood have been stopped. We did not need that, and it does not fit in with our suburban lifestyle; the 12-story building fits in better.

A Jew In Oregon

Dear Editor:

A couple of weeks before Pesach, my husband said, “I think Mendel is going to go to Oregon for the Seders…. He doesn’t want to tell us yet, but I think he’s going….”