Refugees

February 3, 2017

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch responds to President Trump’s immigration ban and announces a congregational refugee relief trip to Greece and Germany. “Step into the shoes of the refugee,” he says. “Try to imagine yourself on a tempest-tossed rickety boat fleeing Assad’s chemicals and ISIS’s brutalities. Don’t you remember? Just think back two or three or four generations. We Jews were on those boats — the wretched refuse that no one wanted. The world shut its doors to us, too.”