Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Israel's (Other) Refugee Crisis
Israel has another refugee dilemma, one that doesn't involve Palestinians, but rather African migrants. It boiled over this week in South Tel Aviv and the topic fits in nicely with themes of Shavuot (see: Ruth, book of). We'll be discussing it on Shabbat morning. See the study packet, consisting of articles and texts.
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