JDA Member Writes About Fighting Isolation and Finding Community

Nechama Huba, former Lauder Fellow and current JDA member, and her brother, Yaacov Huba, wrote a joint op-ed for the Times of Israel about how to fight isolation during this time and how to find community. They discuss what Jewish people are witnessing in the media and on campuses across the United States and how it can be very isolating for the Jewish community. They continue to talk about the importance of community during this time and how we need to be united now more than ever before.

For all the carnage seen and despair felt in the last few days, there is still notable internal unity, an enveloping of the community from all over. For all the antisemitism at our academic institutions—and institutions everywhere—there have also been community gatherings, vigils, and circles of prayer. Community, too, manifests in smaller moments we’ve been experiencing: the mutual acknowledgment of hardship with a kippah-wearing stranger or the condolences expressed between Hebrew speakers at a coffee shop.