Rabbi Robin

I hope that we have a new president and national legislature. I hope that we are successfully pushing those leaders to enact deep changes: exchanging overpolicing and mass incarceration for public service that meets Black, indigenous, people of color, and low income communities' needs; that we are bringing universal healthcare into reality and have halted the pandemic; that we have moved toward the Green New Deal. I hope that we continue, as a country and as a collection of neighborhoods and communities, to talk about and transform the reality of systemic racism that has deformed our democracy from its beginning. I hope that, when our eyes meet, over masks or not, we see vitality and hope, not fear. From my Workman's Circle ancestors and my frum ancestors and my artist ancestors, I carry an understanding that we are not obliged to complete the work, but we are not free to desist from it.