A Momentary Pause on these Worst of Times to Celebrate the Unprecedented Best of Them Among the many things I am blessed to do in my job each fall, I take the opportunity to visit alumni on college campuses. This past week, as I was traveling to make these visits, I certainly did my share of checking my phone, reading, and listening to the now all-too-familiar series of articles, videos, and podcasts telling all of us this is the end of the golden era, the worst of times for Jews in America and throughout the world. I know I am not alone when I say that it is hard to make it through a day, without feeling the heavy burden of these often depressing times. Yet, time and time again during these visits, it was the other half of Dickens’s famous introduction to A Tale of Two Cities that kept coming to my mind. The truth is, in many ways, for our college students (and for us) these are also “the best of times,” the “age of wisdom,” and the “epoch of belief.” The campuses, some tha...
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