https://www.sunildasgupta.com/
I have been deeply involved with the Montgomery County Public Schools from the time, in 1984, that we enrolled our older son in the Rosemary Hills Magnet Integration Primary School. I have endorsed many candidates for the Board of Education over the decades, and was pleased when most of them won.
Rarely have I met a first-time candidate better suited to the times and challenges better than Sunil Dasgupta. I whole-heartedly endorse his candidacy.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Monday, January 20, 2020
A personal snippet on MLK Day.
Today, on MLK Day, the Forward republished this from a few years ago. https://forward.com/news/182763/the-jews-who-marched-on-washington-with-martin-lut/
I was 16 years old in August 1963, living in Silver Spring, just outside Washington DC. Some of my older friends were going downtown for the March. My mother, reading about Neo-Nazi threats to disrupt the March (threats that never materialized) and remembering violence she witnessed from the Right during demonstrations she attended in NYC aathe 1930s, ordered me not to go. Being a “good boy,” I obeyed. To my everlasting regret. (Five years later, I was a student volunteer on the Poor People’s Campaign, and the next year I began working as a VISTA Volunteer in Memphis.)
Many decades later, I related that story at a family gathering. My mom responded that she assumed I went anyway. I loved my mom, but I was more annoyed with her than with myself. On reflection, maybe I should have been more annoyed with myself.
I was 16 years old in August 1963, living in Silver Spring, just outside Washington DC. Some of my older friends were going downtown for the March. My mother, reading about Neo-Nazi threats to disrupt the March (threats that never materialized) and remembering violence she witnessed from the Right during demonstrations she attended in NYC aathe 1930s, ordered me not to go. Being a “good boy,” I obeyed. To my everlasting regret. (Five years later, I was a student volunteer on the Poor People’s Campaign, and the next year I began working as a VISTA Volunteer in Memphis.)
Many decades later, I related that story at a family gathering. My mom responded that she assumed I went anyway. I loved my mom, but I was more annoyed with her than with myself. On reflection, maybe I should have been more annoyed with myself.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Temple Emanuel's annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Shabbat Service
UPDATE: On Jan. 29, The Washington Jewish Week published this report on Toni’s presentation. https://washingtonjewishweek.com/63763/at-temple-emanuel-learning-in-order-to-do/editorial-opinion/
We were so happy to have former Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and State Senator Jeff Waldstreicher join us. And thank you to Cantor Lindsay and to all the members of the Congregation who made it a memorable evening.
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