Congregation B’nai Tikvah
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HaKol: The Voice of CBT The JCC of North and South Brunswick
FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BY LESLEY LEWKOWICZ
Fighting Back Over the past almost 5 years that I’ve been at B’nai Tikvah, I’ve been asked many times to write a monthly article for Hakol. I’ve always refused (respectfully), and not because I’m particularly opposed to it. Regardless of my position here, I don’t want to submit a monthly article simply for the sake of “standing on ceremony”, so to this point, I have not done so (I apologize in advance for the lengthy article you are about to read…or not). But since October 7, I find that all I think about, perhaps bordering on obsessively, are the overwhelming feelings of sadness, anger, fear, worry, and isolation. The dichotomy of not at all being shocked at what is happening to us, as Jews, but also not believing that I am witnessing this in my (and my children’s) lifetime, and feeling so powerless to do anything about it, is something I have been struggling with since that horrible day. There have been so many mornings, on my drive into work, where I have been on the phone with my youngest daughter after we’ve heard particularly horrifying news that morning, and she’s telling me she doesn’t want to be at work that day. Or, we aren’t evening speaking at all. We are literally just on the phone together, crying. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 4]
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