Our Grandfathers Came to this Land

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[Music] a date which will live in information [Music] both of those projects initiatives got off the ground because of the Guerrera team members slain in West Germany the Olympic Games good job out of the 24 who were killed were out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn in heaven I'll say one million Jewish children who were made to be cutting Lucia [Music] whoever heard such beautiful words had an event it is never too little never too late and it is never enough next week November 8th 2022 the midterms elections governor elections turning out in all the states a close election and I'll use teach Coalition and its network of thousands of activists just like you are urging everyone to go out and vote I just want to elaborate on that point a second the like I said there can be a few episodes of me Examining the Jewish story in the United States of pushing Frontiers on the American landscape in this current episode we'll discuss this current episode we'll discuss immigration which I've touched on in several different episodes in the uh in the past um and for many who arrive during the time of immigration they arrived in New York Harbor and were greeted as is well known by the Statue of Liberty and as is well known to every school child on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is a poem by a Jewish poetist Emma Lazarus called The New Colossus and just to quote a few lines which I'm sure

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