In response to Pittsburgh

What happened today in Pittsburgh was a hate crime. Hate is hate. No hate crime is WORSE than another. People hate, act out and innocent human beings die at their hands. We have a global, systemic, hate disease.

I‘m aware that Ashkenazi Jews have had (what some might perceive as) the luxury of assimilating, & being able to “pass as white Europeans” for the last 60 years, but today is evidence that hate crimes still occur against Jews—all the time—by people still filled with bigotry.

Hate crimes stir ancient wounds for all oppressed people. There are echos. There are scars. They are very real.

 All we can do is keep fighting. And that means voting.

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"Poem Without an End”
     by Yehuda Amichai, transl by Chana Bloch

Inside the brand-new museum

there’s an old synagogue.

Inside the synagogue is me.

Inside me my heart.

Inside my heart a museum.

Inside the museum a synagogue,

inside it me,

inside me my heart,

inside my heart a museum