It’s always an honor to be published by The Jewish Week. But the Opinion piece (‘Hayom’: Being in the Moment, Oct. 9) was an edited version of a longer essay I penned. The edited version deleted attribution to the late Rabbi Milton Steinberg for the idea of “holding with open arms” and a long quote about holding on while letting go.
If anyone was moved by the piece, it is Rabbi Steinberg who deserves the credit.
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is founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Bronx, NY. He is national president of AMCHA — the Coalition for Jewish Concerns and a longtime activist for Jewish causes, human rights and defending Holocaust memory.
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