Susan Adams รีทวีตแล้ว
I am grateful that the children, clergy, and staff of Temple Israel are safe, and grateful for the security guards and first responders who ran toward danger so others could run away from it.
But gratitude is not enough. Relief is not enough. The trauma doesn't end when the threat is contained. The fear doesn't leave when the building is cleared.
The parents who dropped their kids off at that preschool this morning — our community, two miles from my husband’s synagogue, my own family’s, where my own daughter has laughed and played at Tot Shabbat — they will carry this with them. We all will.
And we should be angry about that.
This is not a moment to offer thoughts and prayers and move on. This is a moment to look each other in the eye and say: this is not normal, and we will not accept it as normal.
Jewish Michiganders should be able to go to school. To shul. To celebrate holidays or drop off their kid at preschool — without wondering if today is the day the unthinkable happens. That is the bare minimum of what it means to live in a free country. We are not meeting it.
The rise in antisemitism is not abstract. It’s not left or right. It is here. It is in our state, our community, just miles from my own house. It is in our neighborhoods, our schools, our houses of worship.
Enough.
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