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.
Steinsaltz was perhaps best known for his groundbreaking commentary of the Babylonian Talmud, which is credited with making the ancient Jewish texts more accessible.
Our current lack of a national health plan puts persons of color and low-income people at particular risk.