Things Worth Remembering: The Freedom to Be Different
Jewish folk dancing is demonstrated by Parkman Bandstand in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1970. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)
After Nazism destroyed his homeland, Simon Rawidowicz defiantly wrote: ‘Do not try to hide the Different inside you.’
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Welcome to “Things Worth Remembering,” in which writers share a poem or a paragraph that all of us should commit to heart. Today, Mijal Bitton, a spiritual leader based in New York City, reflects on the right to be different, a freedom that Jews have died for—and which makes it possible for Jews to continue to live.
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