YourNews from Israel
Local contributing readers Jill Wilson and Jan Capps continue to file dispatches from the Holy Land as part of the Greensboro Interfaith Mission trip to Israel. I got a bit behind posting their dispatches while I was home sick the past two days, but we're caught up now and you can read their stories, and others, at the YourNews archive page.
I also failed to take timely note of a milestone regarding YourNews. One of the many questions we received when we began the Town Square initiative was: Would reader-contributed stories ever be published in the printed edition of the News & Record? We said yes, and that actually happened for the first time on Monday, as Jan and Jill shared a byline on a story that was published on page B9 of the Greensboro section. (The story comprised the first two installments they filed from the Holy Land.) I'd've pointed it out at the time if I'd been well.
But you don't have to travel to the Holy Land to contribute stories to YourNews. Just go here.
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Lex,
Re: your comment: "The Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, of course, but National Socialism reserved a special fury for Jews that other groups, to a greater or lesser degree, were spared. To suggest otherwise is to dishonor Simon Wiesenthal's memory."
Yes, I know you left this at DawnEden. Just wanted to comment that I couldn't agree more. I DIDN'T want to leave a "ditto-head" at DawnEden because of a temporary, prim, self-imposed rule in the immediate days after Simon Wiesenthal's death not to engage with those who hi-jack the Holocaust - frequently breathtakingly disingenuously -for their own causes. I don't personally always hold with Eliot's condemnation of the "right deed for the wrong reason" and I was impressed that Dawn's site acknowledged Mr Wiesenthal's memory. Kudos to your comment there. It was spot on.
Posted on September 22, 2005 3:03 PM
Jody: Thanks. I neither know nor care what Dawn's motive was in excerpting that essay, let alone what the good monsignor's motive was for writing it. But at the end of the day, facts matter.
Posted on September 22, 2005 3:18 PM