| |  | | | | | | | Jews around the world gathered around their Seder tables last week to recall their suffering as slaves in the land of Egypt thousands of years ago. The experience should teach us, the Torah says, not to oppress or mistreat strangers, "for you were a stranger in the land of Egypt."
Taking this lesson to heart in the most fundamental way, progressive Jewish activists in New York have been mobilizing to assist foreigners at risk of deportation or worse under the new crackdown on immigration by the Trump administration, as Etan Nechin reports here.
A few dozen British Jews who broke ranks with the establishment this week were also driven to action by "policies that run contrary to our Jewish values." In this case, it was the policies of the Israeli government – in particular, the ongoing war in Gaza – that led these members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to publish a fierce condemnation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right allies in one of the countries most respected newspapers, as Felix Pope reports here. | | |
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