Japanese Holocaust educator honored by Palm Beach district sun-sentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sun-sentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Susan Feingold Dies at 95; Helped Give New York Children a Head Start
Her Bloomingdale Family Program provided preschoolers with a haven where there hadn’t been one before. It became a model for similar efforts under Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty.
Susan Feingold in 1989. Her Bloomingdale Family Program for underprivileged children became a model for the national Head Start program, a signature effort in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.Credit.Jack Manning/The New York Times
Feb. 25, 2021
In the 1960s, New York City presented a harsh landscape for its underprivileged children. Parks were dangerous, the courtyards of crumbling housing projects could be hostile zones, and preschools were expensive. But a band of parents in Manhattan resolved to take matters into their own hands, led by a strong-willed woman named Susan Feingold, who had narrowly escaped the Holocaust as a girl.
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Rantz: King County erased Christmas, Easter and Hanukkah from woke, taxpayer-funded calendar
King County s 2021 calendar. (Jason Rantz/KTTH)
The King County Office of Equity and Social Justice (OESJ) spent taxpayer dollars on a calendar that erases the names Christmas, Easter, and Hanukkah. Actually, it erases most holidays, replacing them with heritage celebration months to better reflect the office’s commitment to diversity so long as it doesn’t represent Christians or Jews.
Their reason? They cited themes of equity around traditional holidays. It’s a giant virtue signal.
Despite ample time, and a protracted back and forth over email, the county won’t even offer basic details about the decision. They merely admit this isn’t the first time they omitted holidays in a calendar. But behind the scenes, the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH has learned they may make changes moving forward, now that concerns have been raised.