![]() ![]() ![]() There are many divides within Judaism these days, both religious and political, and I am glad to seize this opportunity to come together.ĭespite my genuine support, I fear that these facets of #ShowUpForShabbat are too small a part of the tweets and memes and event pages that are flying across my various screens–I fear that the Pittsburgh shooting tragedy will be written off as “just another, particularly horrific, instance of anti-Semitism,” and that certain important things will fall quietly from the dialogue. I am heartened by our spiritual leaders reaching out to us to embrace our faith in this time, in hopes that we do not feel abandoned by it. We must open our tents and our arms to Jews that don’t always feel comfortable in a synagogue (this is a real thing and may have included me if my life had played out a bit differently). We must show up as a community to grieve, to feel fear, and to comfort together. Jewish worship is fundamentally community-based, requiring a minyan for prayer. And of course, we want to show the world what a veritable force we are and that we will join together against those who would destroy us. Making the statement “we reject your attempt to scare us out of synagogues” is very important to me – even before this, there’s always been a sense of vulnerability in Jewish spaces because violent anti-Semitic hatred has never been far away (and of course has been inching closer and closer as Trump’s rhetoric has soared among the radical right-wing extremists). I’m honestly not completely sure what’s driving my unease – that’s how feelings tend to be, right? After crowdsourcing my coping a bit, I’ll start with what I love about this concept – ![]()
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