We Can’t Pay Attention Long Enough for a Revolution
Change is necessary but change doesn’t come in a few weeks, and that’s all we have because the next attention-grabbing drama lurks just around the corner.
Change is necessary but change doesn’t come in a few weeks, and that’s all we have because the next attention-grabbing drama lurks just around the corner.
Just try asking Connie and Harvey Lapin to recap 44 years as parent activists in the world of autism. In hyperactive tag-team, the couple bursts forth with stories and ideas, only to interrupt themselves and one another with still more anecdotes, ideas and accomplishments.
It is quite painful for a proud, practicing pro-Zionist Jew, who was bar mitzvahed, educated in Israel, lights candles on Shabbat, attends shul regularly, contributes to The Forward and educates his own child into the religious tradition, to be accused publicly of anti-Semitism (\”When Jews Wax Anti-Semitic,\” Feb. 18).
Two forces in our culture are at odds here — the desire to respectfully accommodate differences, and the ease with which we claim victimhood for ourselves and for our children.