Only your strength, only your hope, only your deeds can end this chain.”
And so, finally, God’ s children rose to answer the tears of heaven: and remembered the souls lost along roads and rivers, to open the gates built by those who had forgotten how to dream, and welcomed the dreamers who crossed wide waters for their little kids—( who, after all, are all of our kids) into the better world our Founders dreamed of for one little kid.
Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar-in-Residence at UJA-Federation New York and is the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. He is an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Academy for Jewish Religion. Rabbi Creditor lives in New York with his wife, singer and AJR Rabbinical Student Neshama Carlebach, and their family.
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