Dear friends,

Miriam

In our Tradition it is said that the Israelites were taken out of Egypt because of the women. These women refused to carry out Pharao’s inhuman order to kill every Hebrew first born. Their courage, prudence and humaneness still resonate for us when we celebrate Pessah, the exodus of our elders from Egypt, from slavery to freedom. And we remember the order to assist all those who even today are disenfranchised and persecuted.