Editor’s Note

When emotions run high, it’s hard to find the right words.

Sadly, we’re not sitting in a movie theater and watching a tense thriller about an out-of-control president. This is real life.

After many months of hard-earned progress, it seems we’re back where we started. Our hospitals are declaring “internal disasters.”

We don’t need more education about Jew-hatred; we need more education about Judaism.

I’m a liberty junkie. You can try to persuade me to do anything, even change my life or beliefs. Just don’t force me.

Wherever we turned, wherever we looked, we were forced to confront an all-consuming crisis.

We may have been in the same storm this pandemic year, but each of us in our own boats.

This hasn’t been a good year for dreams. Maybe the fear of a pandemic has a way of shrinking one’s aspirations.

We are entering a bizarre moment, caught between two extremes.