My parents taught me that the existence of Israel is essential. My children taught me that support for their violently racist policies is fascistic. There’s a middle position, even if it sometimes feels contradictory.
. In churches, it’s tithing, or passing the basket. In synagogue, the Hebrew word tzedakah means not charity, but justice. Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for Barack and Michelle Obama, discussed this essential distinction. “Charity is given out of the kindness of our hearts. ... Tzedakah is considered mandatory
Pop quiz time: Imagine you were one of the 9,500,000 European Jews soon to be disenfranchised, impoverished, deported, starved, or killed by the Nazis. Now, list all of the countries in the world that offered safety and shelter, without restriction, to you and all other Jews fleeing the Nazi regime. Another hint: England isn’t on it either. Like the Netherlands, they accepted almost exclusively children. Palestine and South Africa made the list, until severely limiting the number of Jews allowed. Australia, considering Jews prone to criminality, developed their first limitations on refugees. Switzerland, the only supposedly “neutral” country that shares a border with Germany, turned away at least half of the Jews who made it to there.
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