In preparing for the upcoming Passover holiday and the associated Seders—festive meals when millions of Jews and their families will sit down as a community to recount the Exodus from Egypt, liberation from slavery, the revelation at Sinai, and ideas about freedom—I have been thinking about which…
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, right, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, left, inspect a giant Hanukkah Menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, at the Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.
Sadly, the lesson of caring for one’s local community and neighborhood seems to have been lost in our hyper-polarized, selfish, post-COVID world of echo chambers and social media bubbles. In the last day alone in New York City, I watched dozens of individuals of all backgrounds avoid paying their fares for transportation and a pregnant woman ask for a seat on a bus only to be ignored.
I witnessed adults try to kick children out of a park so that they could set up their pickle ball courts even though the area was intended as a children’s recreation space. I even watched a father encourage his child to pick just-bloomed flowers from Central Park while wearing a logoed hat from an expensive prep school, suggesting that this person was not a tourist but someone who is a local member of the community.
Of course, many New Yorkers still care about the city to a certain degree, but what I am witnessing here and nationwide is not a net positive. As a general phenomenon, there is little question that civil society is not as strong as it should be today. There, too, has been a
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