Cultura y noticias hispanas del Valle del Hudson
I was thinking about the senseless deaths of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, the two folks who were soon to be engaged but were murdered while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC in an apparent hate crime. Since then, I have been consumed with sadness for their deaths, their families' pain, and for the death of innocence. I cannot imagine the suffering that accompanies such loss and how a tragedy like this has become woven into the fabric of our world. These two innocent and beautiful people were taken off of this earth for reasons I cannot begin to fathom. As far as I am concerned, the death of any innocent person figures into the death of us all! I keep Yaron and Sarah in my heart and my thoughts are with anyone who has suffered because of their deaths.
As I am writing this, I mourn for the innocents who are taken from us every day due to the violence that continues to be cultivated around our world—people whose names we will never have the opportunity to know, children who will search for parents and never find them, parents who will search for their children and never find them, people who will never have the opportunity to live a life because they are guilty of being born in places that are subject to violence that most of us may have never or ever will experience.
I remember when my children came into this world and when they had trouble sleeping. I remember picking them up and holding them close to my chest. I remember singing the “Summer Wind” to them until they fell asleep. I remember how SAFE that felt and immediately feel sadness because there are parents who will never be able to hold their children close to their chests and there are children who will never have the chance to be held close to their parent’s chests.
It is easy to forget those who suffer daily with so many other things that are happening on and to our planet. Let’s be better than the false narratives that promote pain and suffering, narratives that justify the random loss of life dictated by the virtues of the ruthless without considering the innocent.
Let’s include in our conversations the people whose names we will never know because as Woody Guthrie stated, “When one person dies, it is a catastrophe, when 1000 people die, it is a statistic.” Let’s remember those thousands of lives lost and include them in our daily conversations, our boardroom discussions, and our hearts! Let’s massage our missions to include our neighbors across the world who have had their lives taken from us by the merciless!
Lastly, I challenge all of us to put down our computers and phones and step away from social media to have face-to-face conversations regarding how, in our world, it is so easy for the innocent to be taken from us.
I am always available for a cup of coffee, I could learn from you!!! Who knows, maybe we can even become friends!
My love to you and everyone you love!
— Martin Colavito
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La Voz, Cultura y noticias hispanas del Valle de Hudson
As I am writing this, I mourn for the innocents who are taken from us every day due to the violence that continues to be cultivated around our world—people whose names we will never have the opportunity to know, children who will search for parents and never find them, parents who will search for their children and never find them, people who will never have the opportunity to live a life because they are guilty of being born in places that are subject to violence that most of us may have never or ever will experience.
I remember when my children came into this world and when they had trouble sleeping. I remember picking them up and holding them close to my chest. I remember singing the “Summer Wind” to them until they fell asleep. I remember how SAFE that felt and immediately feel sadness because there are parents who will never be able to hold their children close to their chests and there are children who will never have the chance to be held close to their parent’s chests.
It is easy to forget those who suffer daily with so many other things that are happening on and to our planet. Let’s be better than the false narratives that promote pain and suffering, narratives that justify the random loss of life dictated by the virtues of the ruthless without considering the innocent.
Let’s include in our conversations the people whose names we will never know because as Woody Guthrie stated, “When one person dies, it is a catastrophe, when 1000 people die, it is a statistic.” Let’s remember those thousands of lives lost and include them in our daily conversations, our boardroom discussions, and our hearts! Let’s massage our missions to include our neighbors across the world who have had their lives taken from us by the merciless!
Lastly, I challenge all of us to put down our computers and phones and step away from social media to have face-to-face conversations regarding how, in our world, it is so easy for the innocent to be taken from us.
I am always available for a cup of coffee, I could learn from you!!! Who knows, maybe we can even become friends!
My love to you and everyone you love!
— Martin Colavito
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COPYRIGHT 2025
La Voz, Cultura y noticias hispanas del Valle de Hudson
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