immigration – Out of Egypt

My Mere Existence

Cracked transparent glass heart sculpture on a wooden windowsill

Day after day, I try not to hurt anyone around me. I strive to mind my own business, yet more and more people seem irritated by my mere existence. I feel subhuman, like a worm or a bug. Why am I despised by these people? Why can’t they just leave me alone? There is noContinue reading “My Mere Existence”

Dignity & Suffering: Immigrants are humans too.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who bravely stood against the Nazi regime, once argued that indifference to evil is a denial of the Incarnation of Yeshua. He believed that if we truly serve a G-d who entered into human suffering, then we cannot stand apart from the suffering of our neighbors. Today, I find myselfContinue reading “Dignity & Suffering: Immigrants are humans too.”