[Reprinted from the Charlotte Observer, September 2, 2017. Rabbi Schindler serves as Contributing Editor, the Observer editorial board.] Symbols have immense power to elicit emotions based on our personal history…
Born in the shadow of the Holocaust, we hear in Charlottesville the echoes of Nazi Germany. Born in the wake of Jim Crow, we see in Virginia the resurfacing…
White supremacy is sometimes easy to identify. Some who hold this ideology are aligned with groups we know well: the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Their presence is frightening. Intimidation…
Reprinted from the Charlotte Observer, August 2, 2017. Rabbi Schindler serves as Contributing Editor, the Observer editorial board. As educators we work to nurture our students’ dreams even as some…
Reprinted from the Charlotte Observer, July 4, 2017. Rabbi Schindler serves as Contributing Editor, the Observer editorial board. Photo by Sarah Ann Photos. Last month, I joined a Deep South…