A conversation with Tim Berke, who headed the IsraAID mission in South Sudan for more than five years. Tim discusses how he originally began his journey in South Sudan and what life was like in one of the most unstable regions in the world, from a wedding with three thousand guests to an rpg taking out his water supply.
As we celebrate over Hanukkah’s eight days the valor of those who rose to resist villainy – in those days and in our time – we mark the words of Maccabees both ancient and modern.
This Hanukkah, as we bring more light into the world each night, let us think about the ways that the Diasporic can illuminate us just as much as we can illuminate the Diaspora.
Although Jews have faced antisemitism from time immemorial, it always comes upon us as something new. It surprises us. We don’t understand it.
Hanukkah is late this year – or from another point of view it is exactly on time.
