SALISBURY Principal Dr. Marvin Moore announced his intentions to leave Salisbury High School earlier this week to take the principal job at Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology in 2026. Moore said he is excited about the next step of his personal journey, but called his departure bittersweet. “I gave all I could and was able to work with and build a really good foundation at Salisbury with some really good people and families,” Moore said. “I feel like I’m at a point where if I needed to leave this would be the time.” Moore became the principal at Salisbury High School over the summer of 2020. He came into the administrative position during a tumultuous time when the world was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and school officials were trying to figure out what the upcoming year would look like. Thanks to support from the surrounding Hornet community, Moore said they exceeded expectations. “We noticed that we had some work to do in some areas,” he said. “Jumped right to it. Had a very strong community in Salisbury who loved the school that jumped in and supported us both on the academic side, athletic side and the community side.” As for those academic achievements, Moore said he is particularly proud of the standards they set. “We were able to do some really special things here,” Moore said. “When you talk about academics, each year, we moved our composite scores up and met growth. This past year, we exceeded growth. “We really honed in on making sure our graduation rates went up for 70 percent to 85 percent in the last four to five years.” Off the field, Hornets were excelling under Moore. On the field, they were doing the same. “We also did a really good job, I felt like, of setting the expectation that we would be a state championship athletic program,” Moore said. “We have won a state championship in football, two in women’s basketball, one in golf last year. We won in track, both indoor and outdoor. “Then, on top of that, we made some deep playoff runs in every sport, tennis, women’s and men’s, almost every year. The same thing in soccer. We really just tried to make sure we were really competitive in all aspects of the word.” Some of Moore’s proudest accomplishments came through building community bonds. “I felt like the partnerships we were able to build with the churches and the booster club meant so much,” Moore said. “Promise City Church moved into the school and is doing a good job with us.” He pointed to partnering with Next Gen Academy, led by former Salisbury Hornets Romar Morris and John Knox, as one more of those relationships that made everyone better for it. However, it has not always been easy for Moore and the Hornet family. “We have had a lot of tough moments from student deaths to staff deaths, but we have galvanized around that work and been able to love each other,” Moore said. “One of my phrases is ‘We love like a family, function like a team.’ We have been able to do that and keep that in perspective.” That was just the impact that Moore wanted to have. “No one can say when I walked away from here that I did not love on our students and staff,” he said. “I did what I could to make sure I was present and that what we did mattered.” Moore mentioned that it was always about being forward faces and tackling things head on even when it was not easy. “I am really big on you should not be a coward in these spaces,” he said. “If you want to be a leader, you have to be willing to take the hits.” However, he acknowledged that having the right pieces around him helped make the mission a successful one. “I feel like I put a team around me of assistant principals that really helped to lead and I am really proud of what we have done,” he said. Moore has been working in the Rowan-Salisbury School System long enough that he has seen students he knew from elementary school graduate high school. He served as the principal and Isenberg Elementary before taking over at Salisbury. “A lot of these kids, some that graduated last year, I was their principal for 10 years,” Moore said, adding that being a part of those journeys is something he’ll always hold onto. Moore will miss the halls, but it is the people inside the building and the adjacent community that will stay with him. “I am going to miss that,” Moore said. “I tell people often. Until you have lived and worked in Salisbury and worked with the family in Salisbury, you don’t understand the true value of what happens here. It is magic, man.” It might be hard to say goodbye, but Moore believes this move is a step that he needs to take. “I’m going to miss it but it is time,” Moore said. “My wife said something the other night. Honestly, I was struggling with it. I am happy about the opportunity but I was struggling with leaving. She said two things can be right at the same time.” He added that he feels like this is one of those examples.
https://www.salisburypost.com/2025/11/23/moore-reflects-on-shs-tenure/
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Hart and Poznansky: Antisemitism has no place in healthcare
A grieving student arrived at medical school on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre to find several classmates celebrating the atrocities by chalking names of “Hamas martyrs” across the sidewalk. A Jewish patient disclosed social media posts of her newly assigned physician denying that rapes had been committed by Hamas. A genetic counselor received death threats from peers when petitioning to remove a controversial speaker from the national conference roster. We are distressed: this was the collective refrain among Jewish healthcare providers, administrators, faculty, students, and patients recently gathered in Boston for a symposium entitled Addressing Antisemitism in Healthcare: Awareness, Action & Advocacy. The resounding take-away was that prevention and treatment require allyship. Firsthand accounts shared at the symposium echoed national and local surveys revealing a high percentage of Jewish practitioners who feel “ostracized,” “gaslit,” and “unsafe” in the current practice environment. When prolonged, these emotions result in hypervigilance, creating a chronic state of fear, tension and dis-ease. The Jewish story carries deep intergenerational trauma; ignoring and invalidating present-day experiences, as discussed by Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern, compounds the injury for Jewish patients and practitioners. Dr. Mark Zeidel, Physician-in-Chief at BIDMC, delivered a keynote on the history of antisemitism in medicine. As recently as the 1970s, medical schools and hospitals enforced Jewish quotas, deliberately limiting Jews in medicine and science, and effectively denying equitable care to Jewish patients. Despite progress and accomplishments over the last few decades, Jewish practitioners fear returning to that no-so-distant past. Troubling signs of that possibility prevail. Dr. Peter Hotez, a world-class vaccine researcher, addressed the conflation of antiscience beliefs with antisemitism. He recounted hateful and threatening encounters with conspiracy theorists who denied the validity of vaccines and implicated Jews to justify their unfounded suspicions. Students shared stories of classmates hiding their Jewish identity, and those labeled as Zionists (i. e. believing in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state) summarily reviled as “evil” and “genocidal.” Political buttons on white coats and protests within earshot of patients functionally aggravate the experience of trauma for Jewish patients. Soraya Deen, Founder and CEO of Muslim Women Speakers, called for people to stop conflating support for Palestinians with harmful antisemitic beliefs. “.(H)istorical narratives that inaccurately portray Jews as villains have. erode(d) communal relationships, making Jews convenient scapegoats amid geopolitical grievances. This silence and complicity must end,” said Deen. Hamas, as Deen described, is a terrorist organization mandated to kill every Jew worldwide. Taking up their mantle, she reinforced, is not pro-Palestinian, it is anti-Jew and is especially dangerous in healthcare. Rodrigo Monterrey, Senior Director of Belonging and Health Equity at Tufts Medicine, aptly described how every marginalized group requires outside partners to help lift them up. As Monterrey stated, “the burden of fixing a problem should not be solely on the people who are experiencing the problem, but also on those perpetrating and witnessing it.” Leaders, including Monterrey, from healthcare systems with Jewish Employee Resource or affinity groups (J-ERGs), like Mass General Brigham and Tufts Medical Center, presented institutional improvements that these entities facilitate. The willingness of leadership from hospital and academic medical centers to authorize and work closely with such groups sends a clear message of support to Jewish staff and, likely, to Jewish patients. Myrieme Churchill, Founding CEO of Parents 4 Peace (P4P), posited antisemitism as a public health problem, integrally connected to radicalization of young people. Churchill and her P4P colleagues, who include reformed Jihadists and former neo-Nazis, explained that antisemitism serves as the gateway to many forms of hate. Antisemitism has roots in extremes on both the right and the left and metastasizes into the spaces in between as long as mainstreaming and normalization of antisemitism continues. While antisemitic activity in our healthcare systems may be leveled by a vocal minority, messages from Churchill, Deen, and Monterrey, along with the introduction of JERGs, reinforce the value of courageous leadership, strong ally activists, and robust institutional responses designed to end antisemitism. Medicine is a hallowed profession. Team effort and psychological safety are foundational for providing evidence-based and equitable care. Medical errors happen when crucial contributing factors are ignored. Physicians pledge to “first do no harm.” Avoidance of harm is not passive it is active and conscious. Medical training is meant to foster the ability to hold compassion for people from diverse backgrounds and treat every single patient with dignity and respect. Freedom of expression is our right as citizens, but our professional commitment in healthcare calls us to a more discerning standard to not inflict pain, wittingly or unwittingly. Protocols to eradicate antisemitism in healthcare require: (1) building allyship and raising ally voices; (2) advancing research to delineate scope and impact; (3) incorporating antisemitism education into anti-bias training; (4) ensuring safe reporting systems; and (5) holding institutions accountable to the same standards they uphold for all protected groups. Our oath demands that we care for one another patients as well as peers. Antisemitism is not a Jewish problem alone and our ability to combat it effectively is a test of our collective moral health. Jacqueline A. Hart, MD is a Boston-based physician, Board member of JCRC Greater Boston & JFS Metrowest. Mark C. Poznansky MD, PhD; is a Boston-based physician-scientist.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/11/22/hart-and-poznansky-antisemitism-has-no-place-in-healthcare/
Michelle Obama is the First Lady of Complaints
Former First Lady Michelle Obama is in the news again with another grievance. In an interview to promote her new book, The Look, Mrs. Obama is complaining again. When asked about running for President, Obama claimed that Americans “aren’t ready for a woman President” and have “a lot of growing up to do.” Last year, Michelle Obama campaigned for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. During a speech in Michigan, Obama called Harris “extraordinary,” and wondered “why on earth is this race even close?” She also asked whether “as a country, are we ready for this moment?” These are absurd comments since two of the last three Democratic Party presidential nominees have been women. The stage is certainly set for the right female candidate to become President. This victorious female candidate who will make history will never be Michelle Obama. There are several reasons for this prediction, but, primarily, she has refused to display any appreciation for this great country or all the many benefits she received for being married to Barack Obama. Incredibly, Michelle Obama offers a steady stream of complaints about the American people and how she has been treated in her life. As First Lady, Obama said she was under a “particularly white-hot glare,” and grumbled that her family “didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.” Of course, that complaint is ludicrous because Barack and Michelle Obama were treated as royalty in America. They received fawning media coverage from the very beginning. Those who pushed too hard and asked tough questions were labeled “racists.” Yet, Michelle Obama claimed that the “we were all too aware that as a first Black couple, we couldn’t afford any missteps.” The Barack Obama presidency was nothing but a series of “missteps,” but he not only won reelection, but he also completed his two terms without any impeachment hearings. Barack Obama could have been impeached over any number of scandals in his presidency, such as the disastrous Benghazi attack on our consulate, or the “Fast and Furious” gun running operation or the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeting Tea Party organizations. Instead of impeachment, Barack Obama received a pass from Republicans in Congress, who were too timid to push for thorough investigations and feared being called “racists.” In contrast, President Donald Trump was impeached for a “perfect” phone call to Ukrainian President Zelensky and for a speech on January 6, 2021, in which he called for his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” at the U. S. Capitol. Trump was not responsible for the violence on that day. Instead, he wanted more National Guard troops for protection, and his requests were denied. The President’s wonderful wife, First Lady Melania Trump, has also been mistreated. Despite her history as a world-renowned fashion model and being internationally recognized for her beauty and accomplishments, Mrs. Trump was never invited to be photographed for the cover of Vogue magazine. However, the perpetual complainer, Michelle Obama, graced the cover of Vogue three times. Not bad for someone who whined that she did not “get the grace” that other First Ladies received. Michelle Obama has been criticizing her country for years. In February 2008, as her husband was on the path to the presidency, she said that “for the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country.” Thus, she was only proud of America because her husband was succeeding politically. In 2019, at a leadership conference for the Obama Foundation in Malaysia, she said that the United States was “still not where we need to be. when it comes to race.” Even though her husband had been elected twice as President, Michelle Obama said, “People thought electing Barack Obama would end racism. That’s four hundred years of stuff that was going to be eliminated because of eight years of this kid from Hawaii. Are you kidding me?” The “kid from Hawaii” is a particular source of Michelle Obama’s complaints on her podcast that she hosts with her brother. She is often denigrating or ridiculing her husband on the show. This seems disrespectful for no one in America would know anything about Michelle Obama if not for the “kid from Hawaii.” Even though she is ungrateful, Barack Obama has been taking care of his wife for many years. After his political stock soared in his home state, then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said he was asked to make phone calls to the University of Chicago Medical Center on behalf of Michelle Obama. She eventually was hired in 2002 and served in several roles, including Vice President for Community and External Affairs. In that position, she was paid $317,000 before taking a leave of absence to campaign for her husband. Among her responsibilities was “neighborhood outreach,” remarkably similar to her husband’s famous position as “community organizer.” Michelle Obama was paid very well for “neighborhood outreach,” and, despite her many complaints, has been treated very well by the country she seems to despise. Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere. net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail. com.
https://www.evangelinetoday.com/editorial-columns/michelle-obama-first-lady-complaints