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Yudy Brody“NiceOrTighienal Jewish Boy Licensed to Kill” Iby C.B. Lieber
t all started with a single phone call from a parent in Bal-
Live Pest Free. timore’s frum community. “I just gave birth to a little girl
with Down syndrome,” said the woman on the other end of
410-989-1919 the line. “What services are available for her?”
The recipient of this phone call, Marjorie Shulbank,
ANTS · RODENTS · MOSQUITO CONTROL worked for the Maryland State Department of Education.
WILDLIFE · TICKS · BEES & WASPS Services for children with disabilities were part of her job
description, yet she didn’t have much to offer the distressed
Call for your FREE Estimate mother, who had four other children at home and hardly knew
another frum child in Baltimore with Down syndrome. As the
www.QueenBPest.com • QueenBpest@gmail.com two women talked, what struck Marjorie the most was how sad
the mother sounded. “Do you have any other questions?” Mar-
M.H.I.C. #104396 jorie asked her as the conversation wound down.
M.D.A. # 30294 “Is my daughter ever going to walk or talk?” the mother
asked. At the time, the question wasn’t terribly farfetched.
With as much conviction as she could muster, Marjorie said,
“Of course she’s going to walk and talk. She’s going to do every-
thing your other children do; it will just take her longer.”
Sounding somewhat more hopeful, the woman hung up.
Marjorie couldn’t forget her, though. As the months passed, she
would call the mother periodically to find out how things were
going – and when she heard that there had been painfully little
progress, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
An Invisible Population
To people living along Park Heights Avenue in the 1990s, the
Orthodox community was hard to miss. But to the government,
the frum population was all but invisible. “Because our chil-
dren don’t go to public school, the state didn’t know we existed,”
52 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
Yudy Brody“NiceOrTighienal Jewish Boy Licensed to Kill” Iby C.B. Lieber
t all started with a single phone call from a parent in Bal-
Live Pest Free. timore’s frum community. “I just gave birth to a little girl
with Down syndrome,” said the woman on the other end of
410-989-1919 the line. “What services are available for her?”
The recipient of this phone call, Marjorie Shulbank,
ANTS · RODENTS · MOSQUITO CONTROL worked for the Maryland State Department of Education.
WILDLIFE · TICKS · BEES & WASPS Services for children with disabilities were part of her job
description, yet she didn’t have much to offer the distressed
Call for your FREE Estimate mother, who had four other children at home and hardly knew
another frum child in Baltimore with Down syndrome. As the
www.QueenBPest.com • QueenBpest@gmail.com two women talked, what struck Marjorie the most was how sad
the mother sounded. “Do you have any other questions?” Mar-
M.H.I.C. #104396 jorie asked her as the conversation wound down.
M.D.A. # 30294 “Is my daughter ever going to walk or talk?” the mother
asked. At the time, the question wasn’t terribly farfetched.
With as much conviction as she could muster, Marjorie said,
“Of course she’s going to walk and talk. She’s going to do every-
thing your other children do; it will just take her longer.”
Sounding somewhat more hopeful, the woman hung up.
Marjorie couldn’t forget her, though. As the months passed, she
would call the mother periodically to find out how things were
going – and when she heard that there had been painfully little
progress, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
An Invisible Population
To people living along Park Heights Avenue in the 1990s, the
Orthodox community was hard to miss. But to the government,
the frum population was all but invisible. “Because our chil-
dren don’t go to public school, the state didn’t know we existed,”
52 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
