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Koby Mandell. (courtesy)
Some people think there are three kinds of time the past, the present, and the future. But there’s another kind of time, time that exists outside of time. Time that doesn’t pass or disappear. Time that remains constant. The time that accompanies the death of a child, in our case, the murder of our son Koby, 20 years ago.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
– The New Colossus, engraved at the base of the Statue of Liberty
Immigrant. What do you think of when you hear that word? For me, the descriptor conjures words like “hard working,” “courageous,” and “entrepreneurial.” And rightly so. A study conducted by Caleb Watney of PPI found that, “More than half of America’s billion-dollar startups were founded by immigrants, and 80% have immigrants in a core product design or management role.” He also notes that, although immigrants make up only 18% of our workforce, they have won 39% of our Nobel Prizes in science.
Apr 13, 2021
Yom Hazikaron tells us that we are part of a community that witnesses and remembers in order to learn and care and build.
By Sherri Mandell, JNS
For some of us, this is a whole year we don’t want to remember. A year of COVID-19, with many people sick and out of work or in the hospital. It hasn’t been easy.
Yet, it’s surprising that there wasn’t more history passed down about a similar plague, the Spanish flu in 1918-1920, which affected a third of the world’s population.
Maybe they didn’t want to remember. And, of course, there was a lot less communication then no e-mail or Instagram or Twitter.