<WWYD?
You see a television show that really offends you. What Would You Do?
Write a letter of complaint to the network. A simple letter – or e-mail – can be a powerful way of promoting change, provided enough like-minded folks also communicate their feelings.
Of course, it's one thing to voice one's distaste about something, and quite another to want to shut down whatever happens to be disagreeable. If something in the media bothers you, don't just quietly seethe; let your voice be heard.
– Bruce Weinstein, ethicist
Knight Ridder News Service
<OUR WORLD
On a spring day five years ago, two Israeli boys, 13-year-old Koby Mandell and 14-year-old Yosef Ishran, were stoned to death in a West Bank cave in the Judean Desert. Two more victims in the bitter war between Israelis and Palestinians.
“I thought my family and I would be lost in a cave of grief, forever wandering in a labyrinth so dark you can't even see your own hand, but have to trust that when you step, the ground will still be under you,” Koby's mother, Sherri Mandell, wrote in her book, “The Blessings of a Broken Heart.”
San Diego director Todd Salovey has adapted Mandell's book into a Jewish Arts Festival performance set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the San Diego Rep's Lyceum Stage. Tickets are $18; call (619) 544-1000 or www.sandiegorep.com.
After the reading, Linda Bennett will join Salovey for an audience discussion. Bennett knows of Mandell's pain; her 24-year-old daughter, Marla, was killed nearly four years ago in a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem.
<TELL US ABOUT IT
NEW QUESTION: Will “An Inconvenient Truth” reinvigorate Al Gore's presidential stock? Gore's new documentary about global warming is getting quite the buzz. Will the former vice president, and presidential candidate, ride the box-office wave into the White House in '08? Please call (619) 293-2506 and press the number that best fits your response.
1. Yes. This documentary is giving Americans a chance to see just how presidential Al Gore is – up close and personal.
2. No. Give him an Oscar (maybe) and send him home.
3. Forget the White House. He needs to be our energy czar and turn his slide show into public policy.
Compiled by Sandi Dolbee with input from news services, Web sites, books, magazines and you, our readers. We like letters! Write us at
re@uniontrib.com or Religion & Ethics, The San Diego Union-Tribune, P.O. Box 120191, San Diego, CA 92112.
