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Frimet Roth

Frimet Roth

Israel’s hidden underclass

Our daughter Chaya just turned 18. We didn’t celebrate. And, sadly, she didn’t protest. Chaya is blind, epileptic, wheelchair-bound and profoundly disabled, both cognitively and physically. Her birthdays are not happy milestones. With each one, the gap between her chronological and functional ages grows. Raising a child like Chaya is never easy or joyful wherever you live, but in Israel it is especially challenging.

Letter to Jason Alexander: OneVoice Off Key

OneVoice\’s sound-bite version of this conflict is misleading. Enticing, no doubt, but grossly inaccurate. Crucial facts have been omitted, and it\’s easy to see why. They punch holes in the attractive solution your minders have sold you — the solution you are peddling to us.

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