Enough Dividing!

As we start a new decade, President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and their Republican cronies are doing everything they can think of to divide us. Violent anti-Semitic episodes are occurring at an alarming rate, and hate is becoming an acceptable form of expression here in the Metropolitan area and throughout the world. Yet Voicer Barbara Alpern is focused only on how some Jews are better than other Jews. Does she not realize that the people who hate us do not make that same distinction? Barbara, your disdain for those of us whom you so scornfully deride as, “liberal and left-wing Jews” only helps those who would round up all of us and put us in concentration camps together. I am sure that I am not as observant as are the “conservative-minded and religious Jews” who look down on me, but I went to Hebrew School long enough to learn that “embracing Jewish values” means celebrating what unites us, not our differences. Can’t we all do better this decade?