PERSPECTIVES → SCREENSHOT Issue 807 · April 22, 2020

The Best Imperfect Option

How can we possibly mark, in a respectful and personal way, the passing of so many corona victims?

The Best Imperfect Option

 

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here do you even begin? When faced with tragedy of such immense dimensions — infinitely larger and weightier than a print magazine — how do you respond?

If you’re like me your first response would be: You don’t. Just give up. You will never be able to scale such staggering tragedy.

How can we possibly mark, in a respectful and personal way, the passing of so many corona victims? How can we capture the humanity, the individual contributions, of so many people?

Print media is finite. There are only so many words that fit on a page. Only so many pages in a magazine. Only so many writers, so many hours. (And only so much dark news that our readers can digest over a single Shabbos.)

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