As we gather with loved ones to observe Pesach 5785, we feel more powerfully than ever the pivotal importance of our tradition’s commitment to love of the stranger.
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I understand there's bad blood there. But if Israel is to have peace, it will need to find ways to reach understanding with its neighbors. Netanyahu is for genocide and Trump is fanning the flames. What will the Jewish community push for?
"Whether that stranger is a Jew, a Palestinian, a trans person, an immigrant, a Black person, a campus anti-war protester, and/or a member of any other scapegoated out-groups, our tradition is crystal clear:
We are prohibited from oppressing them and obligated to love them."
Whether that stranger is a Jew, a Palestinian, a trans person, an immigrant, a Black person, a campus anti-war protester, and/or a member of any other scapegoated out-groups, our tradition is crystal clear:
We are prohibited from oppressing them and obligated to love them.
Toward the end of the seder, we make real our invitation from earlier in the evening – “Let all who are hungry come and eat” – by opening the door for the prophet Elijah.
If we should fail to rise together against authoritarianism – or worse yet if we should collaborate with authoritarians – how many prophets will we be slamming the door on? How much love, wisdom, and connection will we deprive our seder tables of? How many who hunger will we condemn to starvation?
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I understand there's bad blood there. But if Israel is to have peace, it will need to find ways to reach understanding with its neighbors. Netanyahu is for genocide and Trump is fanning the flames. What will the Jewish community push for?
We are prohibited from oppressing them and obligated to love them."
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We also know that authoritarians seize power by stoking and preying on fear, resentment, and hatred of the stranger.
We are prohibited from oppressing them and obligated to love them.
Pesach 5785 means affirming that every life is a universe.
Pesach 5785 means linking arms and not letting go.