After the Tree of Life Tragedy, I Went to Shabbat Services and Never Stopped
Going to temple weekly for two years has taught me profound lessons about Jews and Blacks in America and enriched my own Christian faith.
Top Pick October 30, 2020
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On Oct. 27, 2018, I felt a deep sense of wrongness—grief in the very depths of my spirit. Killing innocent, defenseless seniors on the Sabbath, in the synagogue, while worshiping God, is profoundly wrong. Though cable news proclaimed it as such, I did not think the Tree of Life mass shooting was the worst thing that had happened to Jews in America. I thought that distinction went to not letting the passengers of the St. Louis disembark in 1939, damning the 900 Jewish refugees aboard to return to the hell fires of the Holocaust.