(News article, Sept. 18)

My husband and I recently joined Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel. KI Rabbi Benjamin David’s words in your recent article about High Holiday sermons confirmed the wisdom of this choice. He is absolutely correct: “Now is not the time for neutrality. … Democracy is in peril.”

Every day, I read the news with horror, as I see us moving closer to authoritarianism and fascism, spurred by a leader whose goal appears to be spreading fear of all he deems “other,” and allowed to do so by the cowardliness of his brethren. While some may say politics does not belong on the bimah, I cannot imagine a more fitting place for conversations about the values and ethics that are supposed to guide our country. As Rabbi David notes, “Racism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia h

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