Yet again. . .
It’s been hard not to think about the shootings at the Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo. Ten innocent lives lost, more injured, countless lives, including ours, forever changed. Our collective memories recall names like Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Tel Aviv, drops in the bucket of an ever growing list. . . Below is the Shabbat encouragement I sent out in November 2018 after the Tree of Life synagogue shootings. Although the place is different and has its nuances, fear and hate of the other is the same motive for the Buffalo shootings. Such hatred finds multiple groups to hate, applies differing rationale, and is non-discriminating as to the individual targets, but... Read More →