Healthy Unity, Honest Healing: Only After Taking Responsibility and Making Amends
It is deadly if we try to heal by ignoring the real challenges.
It is deadly if we try to heal by ignoring the real challenges.
For our Thanksgiving to do its redemptive work, we must tell the stories that are truly worthy of real gratitude: stories in which we can all see ourselves and hear our voices in all their divergences and disparities, stories too nuanced and complex to be told only once.
Because of Judaism, our story is as big as our people, encompassing all of our values and aspirations from generation to generation.
A real community is one that upholds those who have fallen. A true community exists even when times are difficult and scary.
The coronavirus is a swift and powerful thief. Many of these losses are unavoidable and irreplaceable. But is there anything we can reclaim for ourselves?
Although Berlanti and his husband are not Jewish, they’ve decided to raise their children in the faith. The couple even got a Jewish egg donor.