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Fighting Bullies, Fighting Violence, Kids Use Their Ink As Their War Paint INSIDE WEEK OF MAY 15-21, 2014 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. IV, No. 31 • FREE Fighting bullies, “We went from the bottom up. What is our fighting violence, education program? What is our philosophy? What is the mission? What’s the objective? And from kids use their ink there, we designed a school that complemented it.” as their war paint — Nehemia “Nammie” Ichilov, No good endings Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy headmaster Edwardian tale “Tryst” opens at BY ATHENA PONUSHIS Dramaworks. B1 w aponushis@fl oridaweekly.com Sixth-grader Michael Lesh has shag- gy hair, hazel eyes and hockey-player shoulders. He says he’s a better writer than talker. He loves math and he loves Wayne Gretzky. In his 12 years of life, he has learned he has to make the right choice, he can’t count on others to do the right thing. His big Networking/Society brother taught him that. Who was out and about. On June 15, 2002, COURTESY RENDERING A14-15, 18, 20, 22 w LESH The exterior front of the Meyer Academy, scheduled to open this fall at its Palm Beach Gardens campus. Michael’s brother Richard stopped at a 7-Eleven in Miami. He didn’t know the area. He had diabetes. He wanted a Snickers and a soda. A man held a gun up to him. Asked for his wallet. Richard was a peaceful kid — liked to watch Animal Planet, go skateboard- ing, play guitar — he shrugged the guy First-class off and walked away. The man shot him in the back. Richard died. He had $50 in his wallet, if that. Michael wrote his brother’s story in an essay, part of the “Do the Write EDUCATION Thing Challenge,” a program devel- BY SCOTT SIMMONS oped by the National Campaign to Meyer Jewish ssimmons@fl oridaweekly.com Stop Violence that gives middle school Academy set students a chance to communicate the FORTY-ONE YEARS AFTER ITS FOUNDING, THE MEYER JEWISH toll violence has taken in their lives, to open next Academy is coming to a new home. Money & Investing and explore their role in stopping it. The academy, officially known as the Arthur I. Meyer Parents rethinking the best way Judges, lawyers, principals, sheriff’s fall at new Jewish Academy, will start the 2014-2015 school year at w deputies and others involved in the a new $15 million campus adjacent to the Mandel Jewish to give to children. A25 program say it would be easy for these Gardens Community Center on Hood Road in Palm Beach Gardens. kids to keep quiet — they are brave campus “The bottom line to speak up. Students say they chan- of the school is nel their inner strength in hopes of that we didn’t sim- lending strength to ply want a building others. that housed edu- In seven years, cation, we wanted Palm Beach partic- the building to be ipation has grown part of the educa- from one school tional experience to 31 schools, from and that was a key SCOTT SIMMONS / FLORIDA WEEKLY 2,000 essays to part of what we The $15 million Meyer Academy will be two more than 25,000 went through with stories in 68,000 square feet. essays. Chairman the architect,” the Kovel’s Antiques Bill Bone describes BONE academy’s headmaster, Nehemia “Nammie” Ichilov, said Baseball memorabilia from 19th the essays as during a hard-hat tour of the building, which is under con- w “heart-warming” and “gut-wrenching.” struction. “When you go through that process you think century is quite rare. A26 A recent study conducted by the about how many teachers you have or how many students Centers for Disease Control and Pre- you have and what you want to teach and then you build a Download vention estimates 200,000 bullied high building to house it.” our FREE school students are bringing weap- School officials reinvented that process. App today ons to school. Mr. Bone fears kids “We didn’t want to do it that way,” Mr. Ichilov said. “We today have lost empathy, that they are Available on immune to violence. The Challenge SEE MEYER, A10 w the iTunes and Android App Store. SEE INK, A12 w PRSRT STD OPINION A4 REAL ESTATE A21, 23 EVENTS B4-6 U.S. POSTAGE PETS A6 ANTIQUES A26 PUZZLES B10 PAID FORT MYERS, FL HEALTHY LIVING A16 ARTS B1 SOCIETY B8-9, 12, 14 PERMIT NO. 715 BUSINESS A19 SANDY DAYS B2 DINING B15 A2 NEWS WEEK OF MAY 15-21, 2014 www.FloridaWeekly.com GARDENS/JUPITER FLORIDA WEEKLY COMMENTARY Home on the range lantesl supporting Bundy’s cause did not war, challenging with testosterone the in their right-wing theatrics headed firef a barrage of bullets in defense of excess of big government, standing his for the exits, with no thought of his theirt hero. They instead rode their nags ground for all Americans for whom big redemption. I think they should have leslieLILLY oro buddy-upped in pickup trucks, wav- government is the enemy. offered to buy tickets for Bundy and his [email protected] ingi their weaponry as evidence of their Dissent to this self-serving character- folks to see “Twelve Years a Slave,” sug- courage,c parading their itch to pick a ization followed. A less flattering view gesting they skip the popcorn. fight.f Rough and tumble, like coura- is he is a deadbeat and lawless scofflaw, Ranchers in Florida raise the third geous prairie dogs, their little commu- and his claim of rights to public prop- largest number of cattle of any state nity banded together, even the ladies erty to inure private benefit entirely east of the Mississippi. Many have been This past month I was home on the agreeing to serve as a human barrier to bogus. at it for multiple generations so they range again, a trip down memory lane, take the first hits, should shots be fired. If you followed his lead, we could all appreciate the importance of steward- prompted by the Nevada rancher Cliven Oh, it was quite a scene. run a bunch of hogs at Jonathan Dick- ship in managing their enterprise. Bundy. Long ago, I married into a fam- The cows must have looked on in enson Park, no questions asked. If over- They don’t presume like Bundy that ily-run farm and ranching operation in puzzlement, wondering just what the reach is going on, it is surely by Bundy. public lands are theirs to exploit for central Florida, one of thousands that fuss was about, grateful for their sepa- Nonetheless, the ingredients were personal gains in defiance of the law. populate the state. ration from the human herd milling there for a remake of a classic western, Nor are they subject to the kind of We grew several hundred acres of with such unease outside their pen. re-purposing Bundy as a John Wayne, cheap-shot patriotism that the dema- corn and managed a sizable herd of beef The danger of a stampede was heavy ready to face down the federalist villain gogues purvey while waving the flag cattle. I know that being fiercely inde- in the air. The U.S. agents from the trying to steal his cattle. Then Bundy every time a Cliven Bundy appears on pendent is a bone of necessity if you Bureau of Land Management made a went off script, blew his lines and a plot the scene to puppet their cause. Genu- hope to make a living off the land. Yet prudent retreat, demonstrating intel- twist ensued. Suddenly, our hero went ine patriots pledge allegiance to the going your own way contains seeds of ligence superior to those with guns from being the star in “Stagecoach” to United States of America and actually misfortune if you are prone to making for brains trolling for violence. It was a rider on horseback flapping around in mean it. That’s a far cry from the anar- up your own rules as you go. It starts a classic showdown within a western a white robe in “The Birth of a Nation.” chy Bundy and his militia offer as an out small and snowballs into big. motif. The confrontation was ripe for It was “moron adoration” gone amuck, alternative. ■ Twenty years later, you might be political opportunism; and like a desert the likes of which we have not seen in thinking like Cliven Bundy that your rose, it fully bloomed once the dust-up a while. Fear, ignorance and prejudice — Lilly is a native Floridian and past version of the universe is entitlement to settled from the initial showdown. won the day as sensibilities evaporated president and CEO of the Community break the law or worse. In the weeks following, Bundy took under the emotional heat of stupidity. Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Conservatives declared Bundy an to the airways denouncing the govern- Conservatives were hornswoggled by Counties. Her professional career spans American folk hero for welching on ment’s “overreach” to confiscate his a white guy who, under their adoration, more than 25 years in the charitable sec- 20 years’ worth of accumulated bills cattle as penalty for his refusal to pay assumed they would all agree that slav- tor, leading major philanthropic institu- for grazing his cattle on public lands. his bills. Conservative media pulled out ery and a life picking cotton would have tions in the South and rural Appalachia. A showdown occurred with all the the stops and hailed Bundy as a patriot, a better outcome for African Ameri- She resides with her family and pugs in drama of the gunfight at the O.K.
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