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| Two fathers (one Muslim, one Jewish) and their children protesting immigration and refugee executive order in Chicago on Jan 30, 2017 (Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune) |
Here is the message I shared today with the Jewish Community High School of the Bay (JCHS) :
The diversity of the JCHS school community is powerful. We come from different parts of the world and grew up in different types of families. We represent a broad range of economic circumstances and hold different perspectives about politics, society, and even Judaism.
For example, nearly 40% of JCHS student homes include an adult born outside of the United States. In Jewish terms, some of us identify most with Mizrachi heritage and others with Ashkenazi culture. Some with Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, or Reform, and others with secular expressions of Jewish life.
One thread that links all these differences is the Jewish core idea of being different, being the other. Torah refers to the first Jew, Abraham, as ha’ivri --
