Parshat Yitro: Want to fight injustice and build community? Start with humility. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz (JTA montage)
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Text Messages is a column sharing wisdom from the weekly Torah portion produced with The Jewish Week. America faces challenges we have not seen in generations. Deep elements of resentment and radicalism are set on tearing apart the fabric of the nation. Our ability to argue with humility is gone, crossing partisan divides is a dire proposition and violence is seen by too many as a necessary political remedy to return to basic principles.
With all the uncertainties around us climate change, public health crises, economic instability, political extremism and polarization, conspiracy theories and a breakdown of societal trust we don’t always know how to engage or how to lead in any given moment.