Susan Weintrob is a retired educator who writes full time in Charleston, South Carolina.
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What is additionally so troubling is the injustice, the lack of fairness, the utter disregard for the law and its processes which should have protected these innocent victims.
Are you an inside or outside Jew? Are you comfortable being Jewish publicly or do you keep your Jewish star comfortably tucked under your shirt?
This disturbing groupthink weakens our democratic open society. Together, we need to condemn hatred wherever we find it, right or left. We must realize the decade-long rise in anti-Semitism is fueled by anti-Israel distortions and traditional hatred of Jews, not by Trump's election
Tsipora yearned for grandparents, to call someone "Savta or Saba." She was jealous of her friends who spent Shabbat at aunts or uncles.
When did this helpless feeling change for you?
One wonders if other religions ever had to take into consideration frequent swells of persecution and literal danger to life and limb and encode it into religious law. In too many times and places, being Jewish has been and still is an act of courage.


