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Palestinian Intentions

Your Editorial, “The Real Catastrophe Of The Nakba” (May 18), is right to state that “the catastrophe of the Palestinian people is that their leaders are grounded in victimhood.” As you argue, they would certainly have a state today had reason and compromise featured in their deliberations. But that is the point — for Palestinians, […]

Heather Stoltz, Making social justice part of her art.

Heather Stoltz, 33 Twitter: @HeatherStoltz http://sewingstories.com The cause of social justice had been ingrained in Heather Stoltz for so long that her first job out of college — as an engineer designing bakery machines that replaced human labor — caused a crisis of conscience. “I realized the machines I had created were essentially putting people […]

Josh Goldstein, Helps teens organize for community outreach and activism.

Josh Goldstein, 17 While most of his peers are principally worried about SATs, Josh Goldstein spends his time planning events that help teens like himself make a difference in their community. “I connect to Judaism now mostly through community service,” says the 17-year-old J-Teen leader, a junior at the Fieldston School in Riverdale. J-Teen started […]

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Palestinian Intentions

Heather Stoltz, Making social justice part of her art.

Josh Goldstein, Helps teens organize for community outreach and activism.

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