Co-Authors: Kadijah Booth Watkins and Charles Spenser Egnatz

It’s that time of the year. The holidays.

We all know it. Families are making plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. We’re already seeing holiday ads on TV, pop-ups on our websites, and on social media. With Thanksgiving as the beginning, we celebrate giving thanks, being grateful.

But as we say at Passover, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” I was raised a secular Jew. Now I would say, “How is this Thanksgiving different than any other Thanksgiving? (or at least one in recent memory)” And most would say we are living at a time ruled by fear, rage, hate, feelings of displacement, and frank lawlessness. There are images of people of color targeted and brutalized in the streets and children stripped from their parents; LGBTQ and........

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