within these walls ...

I have no idea why the original builders of our home stuffed crumpled up newspapers into the walls as they built. I doubt that it served any particular building purpose. Perhaps it was a somewhat awkward means of cleaning up - instead of throwing something out, why not just stuff it into the wall?


One of the issues that concerned us back then was a child adopted/bought in Brazil and brought to Israel. When the biological parents decided, well after the baby had been brought here, that they still wanted custody, the Israeli courts determined that this was their right, and the adoptive parents were ordered to return the child.


And though we don't forget when the house was built, this paper gives us proof that in June of 1988 the walls had been put up - and a reminder of at least one issue that concerned us back then.