Opinion

The Horrors of Measles

Dear Editor:

The last day of Yom Tov should have been a wonderful ending to a beautiful Pesach in Israel. Instead, it turned into a nightmare no parent should have to experience.

Dear Goldy,
The issue I’m writing about isn’t unique, so I’m hoping you or your readers will be able to help and advise or give me some chizuk. It’s not complicated. It’s a story as old as time (I know you like Disney).

Dear Editor:

 I loved Rabbi Schonfeld’s article on vaccinations, but I think he left out the most important question for non-vaxxers: What are your questions and concerns about vaccines and how can we address them?

Dear Goldy,

Years ago, a girl wrote about how devastated she was that the guy she dated and liked broke up with her and later on ended up getting engaged to her cousin.

This issue is more common than many may think. We speak about our actual family and our work family. I’m still in touch with members of my work family, and I haven’t worked with them in five years! I interviewed, hired, and trained them—and, most importantly, spent 35 hours a week with them. I was able to rely on them when I needed help, and they were able to count on me when the time came for it. We know each other’s children and siblings from everyone visiting the office. I have a picture on my phone that I love looking at: my daughter, at two years old, watching her iPad in one of the visitors’ chairs in my office, with two boys looking over her shoulder. The boys were the sons of one of my staff member’s children—from a very Chassidish family. I guess it was a no-school day. My daughter was watching Cocomelon, but these boys had never watched Cocomelon. All members of my staff laughed. It was simple nursery rhymes, but these boys had never seen these graphics. Their eyes were glued to the screen.

Again, I must break into my usual order of articles because of something that has caught my attention in the last week. It’s a good thing I don’t write a chapter of a novel each week, because then many of you would be annoyed that I broke into our regularly scheduled chapter “for this?” Yes, “for this” — because I think it’s important.