Letters to the Fort-Worth Star Telegram:
* Your Nov. 22 editorial (“Syrian refugees and terrorists are not the same”) said that “Jews must have cringed at the memory of times in their history … when they were required to wear badges signifying their faith.”
A core teaching of Judaism is social justice, mutual aid and tolerance. This teaching in ingrained in the fabric of all Jews, whether religious or secular.
The slogan “Never Again” means more than just the Holocaust. It means never again will we be silent in the face of injustice.
As Albert Einstein, a secular Jew, stated in 1938, the bond that unites Jews is “the democratic ideal of social justice coupled with the ideal of mutual aid and tolerance among all men.”
This is why we speak out in a voice larger than our 2 percent of the U.S. population.
