Rabbi David Wirtschafter

Rabbi David Wirtschafter is the rabbi of Temple Adath Israel in Lexington, KY. Confronting violence in classic Jewish texts and contemporary society is the focus of his work in progress, The Torah They Never Taught You, Bad Stories from The Good Book.

Profile of a man walking through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
Social Justice

This Purim, Make Noise to Protest Modern-Day Hamans

Rabbi David Wirtschafter
 February 22, 2021
We know that religious freedom is not a lesson from ancient stories, but an ongoing quest even today. While many of us are fighting antisemitism in our home countries, we are also in solidarity with the Rohingya people, who have been persecuted for decades.