Understanding the immigrant...is understanding the plight of the stranger and the meaning of the Exodus from Egypt.
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Today, he said he wishes he could have learned more about his parents’ past.
Barbara Kopelman, Irene Brenner’s daughter, who lives in Northbrook, Ill., said that she has indeed thought about her family history. Once her four children got older and she had time to better understand that history, she realized every day of her life is a blessing.
“Now, I give regularly to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and I try to help fight against anti-Semitism, keep peace and understanding alive,” she said.
In the Book of Jeremiah (7:6-7), we read about the consequences of loving the stranger, “If you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.”
Golinkin said that one can only truly understand the story of the immigrant by going to “live in a strange land, to a place where people do not speak your tongue. It could be very powerful and humbling.”
Understanding the immigrant, he said, is understanding the plight of the stranger and the meaning of the Exodus from Egypt.