In just a few days, Jewish families around the world will sit around the Passover table and retell one of the great migration stories in human history.

It is the story of the Exodus. Not only a story of liberation, but of movement. Of a people who, after generations of enslavement, rose up and left the only home they had ever known, stepping into uncertainty in search of safety, dignity, and the dream of a better future, just as refugees do today.

We read this story every year. We sing it. We debate it. We reenact it. But sometimes we forget that the story of the Exodus is, at its core, a story of migration. A story of refuge. It is the story of a people fleeing oppression and rebuilding their lives somewhere new.

There is another lesson in the Exodus story that has always struck me. It is not the story of one hero rescuing everyone. Yes, there is Moses. There is Miriam. There is Aaron. There is Nachshon bravely stepping into the sea.

But the Exodus is carried forward by the multitude. By a people moving together.

By each person carrying something. Some holding baskets. Some pulling carts. Some lifting children. Each taking responsibility not only for themselves, but for one another.

The Exodus teaches us something profound. It takes a nation to move a nation.

No single person is expected to rescue an entire people. When each of us carries something, miracles can happen.

But this idea is not a Biblical artifact. It is alive today.

In 1933, as Nazi persecution spread across Germany and Austria, Jewish families were desperate to escape. The British Jewish community responded. They organized. They raised funds. They opened homes. They created pathways to safety. Much of that work was coordinated through the Central British Fund for German Jewry, which helped tens of thousands of Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution, including nearly 10,000 children who arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport before the war began.

The story did not end with rescue. Those children were placed in homes. They were given schooling and apprenticeships. They were helped to find work. Because the goal was not only survival. The goal was dignity. The goal was independence. The goal was helping people rebuild their lives and........

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