Month: June 2018

Opinion | Our Synagogue’s Custodian Is A Member Of Our Family – And ICE Just Deported Him

progressivejudaism:

I have included the entire text of this article.  It is worth reading the entire text here from Rabbi Aaron Brusso of Bet Torah of Mt.Kisco, New York’s beloved Armondo:

A week before the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer told him he was going to a detention facility, Armando, our synagogue’s custodian for two decades, had come in to work on President’s Day to be there for my family as we held a small service to celebrate my son’s upcoming bar mitzvah.

Afterwards, as we ate lunch, Armando stood at a distance smiling. A week later, when I spoke to him in custody, he said through tears, “I have seen your son grow. I wanted to be there for the big celebration. ”My son, by happenstance of birth, is a United States citizen, and simply by reaching the age of 13 he becomes a full citizen of our religious community. Armando has worked and lived in this country more than twice as long as my son has been alive, has two boys of his own, no criminal record, steady employment and a community of hundreds of families who love him.

Yet in an instant, he was taken away.

Like my son, I did absolutely nothing to earn or deserve my citizenship, it was gifted to me at birth because of a decision my great-grandparents made. I didn’t have to work for it, sacrifice for it, travel for it. It was given to me before I knew to dream of it, before I knew what dreams were.

We enjoy tremendous privilege and access simply because we were born in the right place at the right time. Not so for Armando.

We got a call that Armando had been arrested over the weekend and was in the county jail. He was in a restaurant with family when a fight broke out. The police were called and they arrested a number of people, including Armando. Aside from being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was completely exonerated in court.

But during his time in the county jail, ICE was sent a list of inmates. An ICE officer came to the jail to let him know he was going to be brought into detention.

Armando came to this country nearly 30 years ago. In the 20 years he worked in our synagogue, he paid social security, Medicare, state and local taxes. As far as we were concerned he belonged in every way. But others apparently saw that differently.

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Opinion | Our Synagogue’s Custodian Is A Member Of Our Family – And ICE Just Deported Him

myceliorum:

soilrockslove:

@myceliorum – holy sh t, the ‘like’ thing happened to us via the ‘valley girl’ thing.  like it was sort of a ‘popular’ style of body language and voice to emulate for a while.  like at least the rural kids felt a sort of kinship?  it was almost a ‘cool older sister’ thing.  and a lot of ‘valley girl’-ese is very similar to autistic stuff, so for the first and last time we were cool.  ofc our “parents” were virulently against it b/c they said it encouraged girls to sound ‘stupid’/’retarded’ and hampered their prospects of being taken seriously. thanks.

also @clatterbane – there’s a name for that? 😛  there’s a whole branch of our family that does the ‘needs” and ‘warsh’ thing, never knew it was called pittsburgese, but it makes sense as they’re the side that was heavily in coal mining in the pa/md appalachians.  a lot of them are embarrassed about it too.  this maybe explains a bit of that. 

My family did warsh too.

Also I didn’t realize waller was the same word as wallow until I was in my twenties.

My dad’s side of the family warshes, and everybody wallers. (Some noticeable dialect differences within less than 50 miles.)

Took me a long time to figure out it was supposed to be the same word, too. You at least see “hollow” on road signs sometimes, but for some reason I didn’t make the same connection with “wallow” spelling vs. pronunciation. Waller up the holler!

dog-rates:

sailorthaonhi:

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kelpforestdwellers:

id be so bad at sexy doctor roleplay id be too realistic.

[keeps you waiting for 3 hours]

“need help with a boner that just won’t quit, huh? come back in three days and we’ll see how you’re doing”

“have you tried losing weight? i think you might just be depressed"

“sir, that is not an emergency.” (thanks @floorbananamotherfucker​)

“i don’t think your insurance will cover that.”

roachpatrol:

eelpatrickharris:

fishkeeping is such a trap, because you think it’ll be a fun little hobby where you get your hands wet and then just watch your fish for hours; but in actuality, it forces you to learn about chemistry and biology and gardening and plumbing and electricity and woodworking and even latin bc you’ve unconsciously memorized hundreds of scientific names, and a couple months later, you’ll find yourself in aisle 13 of lowe’s picking up another box of #0 x 2-7/8" structural lag screws, smelling like algae and sawdust while you rack your brain trying to remember what aquatic plant species naturally occur in the peat bogs of northern kalimantan

@kinomatika

al1en-baby:

theenglishmanwithallthebananas:

sugarblob0:

sangled:

lesbian-yandere:

YALL THEY’RE ADVANCING

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Dude, I got the same person (with different username of course) and had a whole freaking conversation with them before I blocked them and only after I had seen this with the exact same messages I got, did I realize,

It was a bot.

randall munroe predicting the future in 2009

dude I reblogged this post like maybe an hour ago?? and then just now it happened to me lmao

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