What interesting times
Mar. 13th, 2011 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuSaturday morning, during the early service at shul, a Newton police officer came in. (No big deal; it turns out someone made a mistake and they sent him on detail duty, but we weren't having a special event.) But I was struck by the fact that I live in a time and place where the local police can walk into a synagogue with a (holstered) gun during Lent, and our response isn't a panicked evacuation (or simply getting shot and killed) but a polite "How can we help you?"
The flip side of the irony was reading the news from Israel after Shabbat. No, we're not dying in pogroms in Newton; the place where men, women, children and babies are stabbed dead in their sleep for being Jewish is Eretz Yisrael.
May wickedness disappear speedily from under the sovereignty of the Almighty, and may the One who makes peace on high forge peace for us, for all Israel, and for the world.
The flip side of the irony was reading the news from Israel after Shabbat. No, we're not dying in pogroms in Newton; the place where men, women, children and babies are stabbed dead in their sleep for being Jewish is Eretz Yisrael.
May wickedness disappear speedily from under the sovereignty of the Almighty, and may the One who makes peace on high forge peace for us, for all Israel, and for the world.