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The Politics of Prejudice and the Syrian Refugee Question
The many thousands of Syrian refugees seeking a safe haven on our shores are being twice victimized – first by the bloody civil war that caused them to flee their homeland, and a second time by the prejudice and fear making us indifferent to their suffering and squeezing their chance of asylum to
A Conversation with Award-Winning D’var Torah Writer Anna Hirsh
Anna, a sophomore from Boulder, CO, wrote in her winning d'var, “The refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East is the biggest migration crisis since World War II – when we, the Jewish people, were the strangers.” We spoke with her to learn how her perspectives on this topic have developed since she wrote her d’var three months ago.