The narrative must be ours, and I say it is the story of living, together, with others, as the best revenge. We are honored by the support of others. We are made more human with our support for them in turn. It is when we stand with others that we are all best seen.
I have had mixed feelings about my relationship to Judaism and my specific relationship to worship, but Saturday’s events strengthened my resolve. As I heard the news of the eleven people who lost their lives, I thought about those people worshipping as I was before being gunned down.
And so we went. With hundreds of others, we gathered. With candles. With lights. With prayer and resilience and song and love and kaddish. W
