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When it’s an attack on your own community

Deborah Fripp — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:30:00 +0000

I awoke on Sunday morning in Singapore to the news that another synagogue was under attack. The rabbi and several congregants of a synagogue in Texas were being held hostage by an unknown assailant. An old story, a repeated story – Jews under attack for being Jews. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Holocaust Education for Our Modern Conversation

Deborah Fripp — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 03:47:49 +0000

Twenty minutes. That’s how much time I have to teach a group of white, Christian, Texan women about the Holocaust. One message – that’s all I’ll get. If you had time to pass along one message about the Holocaust, what would it be? [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Never Again Means Not Now: Looking Inward Edition

Deborah Fripp — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:50:38 +0000

Anger. Sadness. Fear. Recognition. I would not presume to speak for the community of color. But these are some of the things I would be feeling if this were happening to the Jewish community. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Lessons of the Holocaust: Lock the door or welcome the stranger?

Deborah Fripp — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:43:07 +0000

“Why do we need to teach the Holocaust?” This week, as we mark the first yahrzeit of the eleven people murdered at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, I want to explore this question from a different angle, an angle of hopeful action. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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When you meet a Nazi at a gas station

Deborah Fripp — Thu, 16 May 2019 07:56:45 +0000

“I’ve got a Nazi Iron Cross tattooed on my chest.”
We were chatting with a stranger across an unmanned gas pump, along an isolated road in rural east Texas. He had asked us, conversationally, what church we attended. This is a common conversation starter in this part of the world and did not surprise us. We’re Jewish so we attend synagogue, we replied, equally casually. That was when he told us that he had a swastika on his chest. He said it matter-of-factly, but there was a challenge in his eyes.
[Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Coexist is not enough

Deborah Fripp — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:02:24 +0000

Our holy books do not tell us to “tolerate the stranger.” They tell us to love them. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Hate has no community

Deborah Fripp — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 08:04:00 +0000

We cannot allow terrorists to lay claim to the values of our communities. Once again, a terrorist has come into a place of peace and used community as a cover to commit an act of evil. In this case, he claimed to be working for the advancement of the white, Christian community. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Pulling the Arc of the Moral Universe Toward Justice

Deborah Fripp — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:12:21 +0000

How is it possible that we are still fighting racism, sexism, and antisemitism in this country? We thought we were the most forward-looking country in the world, a light unto the nations. We thought we had evolved beyond such destructive tribalism. We thought we could see the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice before our eyes.[1] We just had to sit back and let it happen.

That was our mistake. Bending toward justice does not happen when we sit back and watch. Even treading water requires effort and vigilance. [Redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Love is stronger than hate

Deborah Fripp — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 01:36:10 +0000

In the shadow of the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht[1], an attack on a synagogue is particularly chilling. But this was not Kristallnacht. When the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh was attacked, people from all over poured in to help. In fact, as overwhelming as the grief and fear of the shooting was, the love in response has been almost more so. [redirects to the Times of Israel]

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Does “Never Again” still have meaning?

Deborah Fripp — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 01:56:58 +0000

Never again is the anguished cry of Holocaust remembrance, seeking to find a meaning from the suffering. But can we still say never again when genocides have happened again, and again, and again? Does the phrase still have meaning? [Redirects to the Times of Israel.]

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