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Judaism at its core is about social justice, Tikkun Olam, and helping each other. Helping your fellow Jews, but also helping your fellow humans. That鈥檚 what an American republic is about too: helping each other and contributing to society. Those ideals are both very Jewish and very American.
鈥淎riel Walovitch, Northeastern University Hillel鈥檚 director of Jewish student life, contacted me a few days ago because she鈥檚 been running a mile a day for eleven days to honor the victims of the Tree of Life shooting and she鈥檇 heard that I was from Pittsburgh.”
鈥淲hen I was moving into my apartment at Michigan State University, someone said to me, 鈥楧o you have to hang up your mezuzah? Do you need to tell the entire world your Jewish?鈥 I said, 鈥榊es, of course.鈥欌
鈥淚 was hundreds of miles away from campus, completing the semester online because of the coronavirus, when I received a flood of messages about an act of vandalism on Yom HaShoah.鈥
鈥淚 was enrolled in a Catholic school, where I was the only Jewish and Eastern European student.鈥
