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JWeekly.com
December 19, 2003

By Abby Cohn

Though she’s never laid eyes on them, Dr. Miriam Goldfien proudly displays a black-and-white photo of three little Israeli girls, ages 3, 4 and 5, on the piano in her Mill Valley home.Julia Aaronson, a 12-year-old Novato girl, is selling hundreds of dollars worth of Silly Putty to help the same trio of dark-haired sisters thousands of miles away.And while they were packing to leave earlier this week on a two-week trip to Israel, some congregants from Tiburon’s Congregation Kol Shofar tucked away trinkets for the siblings, whom they’ll soon meet at a Chanukah celebration in Jerusalem. [Read more…]

Among the countless victims of Palestinian terror, there are those whose suffering causes no headlines. These are the people who survive terror attacks, often with lasting physical and psychological wounds. Their fate is, however, no less tragic than that of the people who are killed.

For weeks, months, and years, the number of the Israeli victims of the intifada has steadily mounted. After each attack, the procedure is the same. First, the media release brief reports that an incident has occurred. If it turns out that “sufficient” blood has flowed, teams of reporters are dispatched to the site, where they remain for hours, delivering all available information to the Israeli public. Newspaper articles follow, with details about the victims, their families and friends, and, finally, the burials. Subsequently, the dead sink gradually into the dust of statistical analysis, and the conflict continues, with no end in sight. [Read more…]