“...Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...” —Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The Outbreak of Ebola Causes an Outbreak of Fear By Mariel Priven EBOLA, A HIGHLY contagious, sometimes fatal disease, has caused much tension among people all over the world since its outbreak in West Africa. In Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, the most Ebola-affected countries, there have been over 13,500 cases, however only Roanna Shorofsky and Ariela Dubler
An Interview With Our New Head of School: Ariela Dubler By Carlin Greenfield & Nina Glesby ALTHOUGH WE HAD to say good bye to our wonderful former Head of School, Roanna Shorofsky, we now get to welcome our new Head of School, Ariela Dubler. As most of you know, she is the mother of three, all of whom attend our school, so she has been a part of the Heschel community for a long time. We were excited to get to know her a bit better and look forward to follow up interviews about issues that concern our school. What follows is an interview recently conducted. What did you do before coming to Heschel? I was a law professor at Columbia. I taught Constitutional Law, Family Law and Legal History. How did you get involved in the search for a new head of school? I was working on the search committee,
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Dr. Craig Spencer has tested negative for the Ebola virus and has gone home!
about 7,700 of those cases were laboratory confirmed. With a fatality rate ranging from 25% to 90%, about 4,940 of the Ebola victims in West Africa have died. The disease is spread through bodily fluids only (saliva, blood, mucus, etc.), and can enter through cuts and open wounds. However, despite the fact that the disease is very contagious, anybody infected with the disease is only contagious when showing symptoms. Symptoms include high fever, severe weight loss, nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding, and stomach pain. These symptoms begin to show between 2 to 21 days after being exposed to the disease, which has led to several quarantines.
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NOVEMBER 2014
The People’s Climate March By Abigail Sylvor-Greenberg THE DAYS LEADING up to Sunday, September 21st were like most early fall days. The weather fluctuated between overly-humid summer-like air and brief interludes of chill. Clouds sat sparsely in the sky. Trees stood in their final shade of summer green. Meanwhile, outside of the city, ice was melting in drastic proportions, animals were being robbed of appropriate habitats, and greenhouse gases were being emitted thoughtlessly into the atmosphere. The planet was falling apart. The days following September 21st were the same, maybe with a colder temperature, more clouds, trees beginning to adopt undertones of brown, yellow, and red, but nonetheless with the earth deteriorating, day by day. That being said, something had changed. Something of mass proportion, which some thought could change the course of planet earth entirely.
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