WAR IS RAGING
Rabbi Avi Killip
War is raging but it’ s far away, on the other side of the world and I am going to the dentist for routine cleaning. What it means to be an American Jew.
Shock and Awe I remember another dark sky lit with flames I watched on a flat screen at the Three Dollar Cafe trivia night out, American teenagers we ate tacos and salsa while bombs fell.
Cried at my desk alone at Federation three boys kidnapped new mother, weak heart, leaking eyes & breasts I wept for them. Dead from the start but Netanyahu preferred Protective Edge.
Paced up and down sidewalk, heart pounding. Sat silently through tefillat tal told no one what WhatsApp revealed too afraid to admit, refused to bring bad news to enter the nightmare that refused to stop growing, body count, hostage darkness
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