Between posts from friends like Rabbi Mauricio Balter and Andy and Emily Shapiro Katz in Be'er Sheva whose children and families are spending every other minute in bomb shelters, as sirens are warning of incoming missiles. Between posts of the arrests of members of Women of the Wall Nashot HaKotel for praying aloud for safety for Israel's south. Between hearing from my sister in Tel Aviv that her coworkers are being called up for Milu'im (reserves). Today is a day of prayers for peace and Jewish unity.
“The responsible life is a life that responds. The Hebrew for responsibility, achrayut, comes from the word acher, meaning “other.” Our gr...