Can the Jewish Community Survive the Crisis?
Hold together now. Times are tough. In two years, we’ll be laughing about it. The market will be up, real estate prices will be rising again, and people will be finding great jobs. The question is, will the Jewish community come out unscathed–or will we wake up one morning to discover we’ve got back our jobs and our money, but there’s no kosher restaurants left where we can celebrate that, our children’s schools have closed down, and our community is left desolate? I had no money to give him, no one to turn him to and no clue about social services in his townThat depends on what kind of community we are. On whether we lend a hand only when we feel secure, or even when we are tottering ourselves. On whether we look just to save our own skin when the fire is burning, or do we look out for one another as well. On whether it’s every family for itself, or we are all really one family and we hold together no matter what when the world is falling apart. When this whole crunch started, I met
