On January 27, 2017 the Trump administration signed an executive order barring entry to all Syrian refugees to the United States and suspending the U.S.
It’s easy to be afraid of the stranger.
In fact, it’s perfectly natural.
And that’s exactly why the Torah commands us to embrace the stranger, to protect her and take her into our own home, to remember our own periods of vulnerability and to act with
As a high school student in Washington, DC, I have heard firsthand accounts from my peers of how anti-refugee sentiment has affected them and their families.
As the global refugee crisis escalated, fear and misunderstanding of who refugees are inhibited refugee resettlement in the United States.
