Political Quotes

“I try to slow down at this time of the year, a season of giving thanks, coming together, and counting blessings. It is a season, regardless of one's faith--maybe really because of all of our faith traditions--to celebrate light, light over darkness. For 75 years, my community of Abington, Pennsylvania, has hosted an interfaith Thanksgiving service. This year, hundreds gathered at Temple-Beth Am, warmly welcomed by Rabbi Robert Leib. Pastors and priests, rabbis and imams, we were young and old, faith leaders and civic leaders, and what was clear from the readings and beautiful song is our different faiths have so much more in common. It is a common call to lift one another, welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, mourn with those who mourn, to love one another, price peace over conflict, and recognize our common humanity. It is 'Tikkun olam'; 'repair the world.' This season, as we have come by a way we did not know to the end of another year, I am counting blessings and focusing on the light.”