SALT LAKE CITY In many ways, 2020 was a year unlike any other.
If there was one headline in the news that could possibly sum it up, it was a CNN guest column with the headline 1918 + 1929 + 1968 = 2020, published back in the thick of protests over police brutality during a pandemic that also resulted in economic calamity.
Of course, 2020 didn t produce something as quite as deadly as the 1918 pandemic or as financially devastating as Black Thursday, or even as violent as 1968. Having those moments in one year, however, was unique. And 2020 produced hardships that those other years didn t, like some of the worst wildfires ever recorded.
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High-school student leads effort to preserve Vermont s oldest Jewish cemetery
Netanel Crispe works on a headstone at the oldest Jewish cemetery in Vermont.
EAST POULTNEY, Vt. (Bennington Banner via JTA) - The autumn leaves crunched underfoot as Netanel Crispe walked uphill toward the northwest corner of the small cemetery. He stopped and examined a toppled headstone. The last time I was here this was standing up, he said, regarding the weathered, gray stone. At least it hasn t broken.
Crispe brushed away the leaves to reveal a carving at the top of the stone: two raised hands, the gesture used in the delivery of the Birkat Kohanim, Judaism s priestly blessing.
Jewish Ledger
Teen leads effort to preserve Vermont’s oldest Jewish cemetery
By David Lachance
EAST POULTNEY, Vermont – (Bennington Banner via JTA) – The autumn leaves crunched underfoot as Netanel Crispe walked uphill toward the northwest corner of the small cemetery. He stopped and examined a toppled headstone.
“The last time I was here this was standing up,” he said, regarding the weathered, gray stone. “At least it hasn’t broken.”
Crispe brushed away the leaves to reveal a carving at the top of the stone: two raised hands, the gesture used in the delivery of the Birkat Kohanim, Judaism’s priestly blessing.
DAVID LACHANCE Bennington Banner, via AP
David LaChance/The Banner via AP
Netanel Crispe reads a gravestone in the East Poultney, Vt., Jewish cemetery on Sunday, Nov. 6. Crispe is leading an effort to restore and preserve the cemetery.
EAST POULTNEY, Vt. The autumn leaves crunched underfoot as Netanel Crispe walked uphill, toward the northwest corner of the small cemetery. He stopped and examined a toppled headstone.
“The last time I was here this was standing up,” he said, regarding the weathered, gray stone. “At least it hasn’t broken.”
Crispe brushed away the leaves to reveal a carving at the top of the stone: two raised hands, thew gesture used in the delivery of the Birkat Kohanim, Judaism’s priestly blessing.