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US News: Jewish and Palestinian Muslim communities in the United States are feeling apprehensive and on edge following the recent attacks in the Gaza Strip. Sy
In the darkest hours of a difficult night — as I battled the aftermath of my second vaccine shot and was consumed with distress over the violence in Israel — two verses from this week’s parashah kept floating by, imploring to be seen: “When the Ark would journey, Moses would say: Arise, O Eternal One, may Your enemies be scattered, let those who hate You flee from before You. And when it rested, he would say: Reside tranquilly, O Eternal One, among the myriad thousands of Israel.” (Numbers 10:35-36) To this day, the first pasuk signals congregants to rise at the start of a Torah re...