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OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home

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I read recently that young people check their phones at least 150 times per day. I’m sure we could all be more effective and efficient if we took a moment to process our thoughts rather than rushing from one thing to the next. - Prince Harry speaking at an event entitled, “Encouraging Happy Young Minds”

In Iraq, ISIS is on the verge of total defeat. You can tell ISIS is pretty much on the way out, because they’ve already been booked to appear on next season’s “Dancing With the Stars.”

- From a sixth grade social studies textbook used in Canada

– Conan O’Brien The Jewish Home | OCTOBER 29, 2015

JULY 20, 2017

Since the year 2000, child soldiers have been used in armed conflicts in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Mali and Yemen.

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The most important question I could ask is I know a lot of young people who are feeling somewhat hopeless about this and they read articles and magazines or see interviews on TV and they hear it is too late. You know, don’t even have kids because you will only help destroy the planet and there will be no future for them. Is there hope, Al Gore?

I think it’s really important to know what you don’t know and listen to people who do know what you don’t know. - Former President George W. Bush, appearing at an event with former President Bill Clinton, stressing the importance of humility in the Oval Office

The purpose of this email is to remind faculty that student protesters have diverted time and energy from their academic work to promote institutional change and social justice… Many have been involved in this work for the entire academic year and in previous years. – From an email by Evergreen State College’s provost asking professors to consider “the physical and emotional commitment” of student protesters when deciding their final grades

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- Stephen Colbert on the “Late Night Show” interviewing Al Gore (who made hundreds of millions of dollars off of pedaling his climate change theories) about climate change


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