Stewart Weiss

More and more Jews are putting their kippot in their pockets and tucking their Magen David pendants under their blouses when they walk the streets of North America and Europe.

I am suggesting several thoughts and themes to complement the Haggadah text and add focus to our present situation. You are encouraged to keep this page in your Haggadah on Seder night.

Tragically, there is no shortage of un-Jewish Jews who have joined together with the antisemitic mob, helping to add credence to their crusade.

By our respecting each other and joining together in one giant blaze of glory, we can shine a beacon of unity into the heavens that can dispel any plague, any war, any crisis.

While this world war revolves around the acquisition of land and partisan belief systems, it is also a War on Freedom, a War on Justice, and a War on Truth.

The mismanagement of the war up until now has cast a dark shadow on Israel, but it is still too early to give up.

History is not static; times change, conditions change, and we have to adapt to those changes.

'What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.' (The prophet Micah, 6:8)

The events of our sedra this week are chillingly prophetic of the current crisis in Israel, and thus offer crucial lessons for us as to how to respond to the drama unfolding before us. Moav and Midian are long-time, bitter enemies of one another, and yet in order to destroy Israel, they are willing to […]