Babies stolen!

always was and always will be unforgivable. Like the dissonance one might feel toward a loved one whom you know committed a terrible wrong, this is the dissonance with which I have always approached — more realistically, tried to block out — this dark chapter of Israeli history. The heartrending story of Yaldei Teiman, The Children of Yemen. At some point when I was young, I became aware of the unethical tragedy of the secular elitist Israel’s separation of religious Yemenite children from their families. Children adorned with the trademark, tight curled pe’ot, sidelocks, that were cut away as they were indoctrinated to abandon their religious Jewish Yemenite rich family traditions of millennia. They were ripped from the bosom of their families supposedly in service […]