So, American Jews, what is important to you? Your sheepskin displayed prominently on your apartment wall or the foreskin removed on the eighth day as a people’s covenant?
Back in January 2022, I saw traction-gaining headlines about another “faker” in academia. I thought to myself, “Oh, boy. Not again.” I barely recovered from the Jessica Krug aka Jessica La Bombalera…
Growing up in Haiti, 1975
Recent headlines about Haiti have reminded me of my summer internship there in 1975.
I “grew up” in Haiti, in the sense that I learned what it means to live in a police state. Before that, I lived in a cocoon of simplistic theory. My Ivy League education had taught me that America was the cause of all problems, so everything could be fixed by “changing the system.” After my internship in Haiti, I saw that life was more complicated.
My visceral memory of Haiti is reading a book with the cover ripped off, and hiding it under the bed before falling asleep at night. It was a book about Haiti’s secret police, the “Tontons Macoutes.”
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