To the administrators and school boards of the Jewish schools of New York:
There is a large number of parents of students in your schools - some silent, others not - who do not want you to mandate our children to be vaccinated or masked to attend your institution. Our detractors will claim that this position is anti-science or we do not have in mind the best interests of our child or their classmates. This is the opposite of the truth. As we all know, it is the responsibility of parents to put our children's health and safety first.
For the 35 of us travelers, both young and old, our plane touched down with an amazingly smooth landing at exactly the right moment in time. Just a week earlier or later, given the Kafkaesque restrictions due to the spike in COVID variants, our group of Touro students, educators, and administrators would not have been allowed to enter the Holy Land.