Coming Together

Jolted to action by the recent wave of hate crimes, American Jews and Muslims are coming together to resist whatever "evil" forces are coming down the pike with the advance of the president elect, Donald Trump. The goal? If Muslims have to register, we will all register. My grandpa, Sol Laskin, taught me that being a good Jew means resisting the forces of hate and opening your heart to "the other." I have always believed this, so much so that there has never been another; we are all one and the same. Vaseem Firdaus, a Muslim, says, "Sitting in an event like this makes you feel it's really not so hopeless. This is food for the soul." May this spirit, as the spirit of my book RONIT AND JAMIL, live on, in the face of the ugly Trumpism, which rears its ugly head daily!