Honor Refugees by Remembering How We Got Here

National Refugee Shabbat calls us to care for refugees around the globe, as well as the urgent tragedy in Ukraine.

The author’s great-grandmother poses with her children before leaving Chernobyl, Ukraine. Photo Credit unknown. From the author’s personal collection.

I want to praise the melancholy gray skies, the unkempt vines, and a great-grandmother I never knew, about whom I have precious few stories.