The Things We Want to Ignore

Last week, I was walking through our neighborhood when I noticed a hateful antisemitic word written across a piece of Jewish art. I stopped for a moment, looked at it, and instinctively kept walking. No one had been physically hurt. There was no emergency. Just a word — ugly, hateful, and easy enough to pretend did not matter. But the farther I walked, the more it bothered me.

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From Otwock to New Jersey

In what began with another Raichik, over eight decades later, Rabbi Ephraim and Shprintza Balter went on to selflessly dedicate their lives to the needs of the Jewish community in South Bergen County, New Jersey.