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It is time for the Jewish community to play it’s part in the refugee crisis

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Gloria bBrockbank
10 years ago

I couldn't agree more

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Tiina Wilder
10 years ago

“Share your bread with the hungry, provide shelter for the destitute, and clothe the naked.” (Isaiah 58:7)

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Colin Rosenstiel
10 years ago Featured

Obviously have to sign when both parents were refugees. Public forget the 20,000 who came on domestic service visa including my mother and two of my father's cousins. My mother's parents were also left behind and perished

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Neil Nerva
10 years ago

We must never forget our past.

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Louise London
10 years ago

But do not exclude parents as the Kindertransports did - this is inhumane.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

refugees need safe havens - whatever their age

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Loren Treisman
10 years ago

same story, different people. People are people. Period.

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ewa spanjer
10 years ago

We have to help these people!!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I think that we have a moral duty to help.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

We all have to do something to help. As Jews who come from refugee backgrounds we have a duty to help our fellow human beings in crisis.

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Debbie Usiskin
10 years ago

And let us open our hearts, our homes and our community buildings to welcome these people as our ancestors were welcomed here.

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Lynne Maya
10 years ago

We also need to deal with the cause of the refugee crisis not just the symptoms

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Carrie Supple
10 years ago

If not now, when?

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Steve Hill
10 years ago

Im ein ani li, mi li? U'ch'she ani l'atzmi, ma anochi? V'im lo achshav, eimatai? "For you yourselves were strangers in the Land of Egypt"

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Gemma Shand
10 years ago

we were once these refugees looking for a home and help. Let this never happen again to our people but let us never forget and help those in a similar terrible plight.

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David Blackston
10 years ago

we need more support

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Val Mogendorff
10 years ago

It is incumbent on all of us to do what we can to help - or we're all guilty; we're all bystanders.

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Sam Driscoll
10 years ago Featured

Great to hear the Chief Rabbi on the radio today saying exactly this! Regardless of the medium and long term solutions, there is a humanitarian crisis going on now and a short term response to help those in need is required every day spent discussing is more lost lives.

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Susie Greenwald
10 years ago

How about collecting coats and sending them where needed? It is going to get cold and the refugees do not have coats

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Paula tabakin
10 years ago

s/he who saves one soul saves the whole world.