opinion
INFECTION
I had been lonely, afraid, and desperate for answers in a scary world, and finding a community of people who offered respite from this pain and fear was better than therapy.
Elad Nehorai is a writer and Jewish community activist known for his founding of the online magazine and Jewish creative community, Hevria, and his work with the progressive Orthodox Jewish movement Torah Trumps Hate. His writing can be found in HuffPost, the Guardian, Haaretz, JTA, and more
I had been lonely, afraid, and desperate for answers in a scary world, and finding a community of people who offered respite from this pain and fear was better than therapy.
Like most things in politics, the explosion of Orthodox Jewish anger at coronavirus restrictions did not come out of nowhere.