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In Memoriam: An Invitation to Find Balance Once More Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe

It's time to treat diversity and difference as assets again Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe

Last weekend, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of New York’s Central Synagogue said the following in an interview: “We know what kind of city we want to live in. One in which people of all faiths, classes and colors feel belonging. For Jewish New Yorkers, it has to include both safety and security on a physical level, and knowing we will not be demonized, marginalized or harassed for supporting a Jewish homeland....” Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe

"There are forces that want to bathe our joy in inescapable grief, as we learned on Tisha B’Av. But there are other forces, better forces, Godly forces, that can be an antidote to the disease of hate." Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe

"America, like Jewish tradition, is not only about the human being, but the human becoming. What we are is an invitation to who we might be. There are legal systems, political systems, social stratifications in the world which insist large segments of their societies are trapped in their station, defined inexorably by their race or gender or caste. This, I believe, is not what America stands for. “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Not only being but becoming, pursuing." Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe