For We Were Strangers

“From generation to generation, each person should consider themselves personally liberated from Egypt.” For we were all strangers in the land of Egypt. In 1934, my grandmother was becoming a stranger in a land she no longer recognized, living in Berlin under Nazi rule. As a young child of 11, she was still allowed to…

Testing Our Love of the Stranger

As we just read in our Torah, God called out to Abraham: “Abraham, Abraham,” “Hineini,” Abraham replied, “Here I am.” “Abraham, take your son, your only son, the son whom you love, Isaac, and take him up to a mountain, and there I want you to sacrifice him as an offering to me.”  Aside from…