Leadership Is About More than Sowing the Seeds of Fear and Division

Growing up Jewish and my recent encounter with hate

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I’ve spent most of my life in a diverse town just outside of Philadelphia. It wasn’t until middle school, though, that I’d begun to appreciate that fact. The quiet, lightly forested suburbia was a microcosm of the cultural melting pot that was our nearby city.

In our modestly sized municipality were churches and mosq…