October 15, 2021 “Take yourself to the land I show you”      Lech Lecha 12:1 

Six years after we abandoned the SS St. Louis refugees to Nazi clutches, Truman welcomed 140,000 survivors. Congress, since 1970, has admitted 200,000 Soviet Jews. Both were compassionate exceptions to immigration restrictions passed initially to exclude Jews. Our community must insist on enacting a humane, practical, and comprehensive immigration system.