“We used to welcome refugees because they were Jewish,” Mark Hetfield, president of HIAS, often says. “Today HIAS welcomes refugees because we are Jewish.”Something in my heavy heart lifted as I read these words Sunday—a quiet expression of decency breaking through the miasma of sorrow and recrimination that now engulfs us. The organization...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 29, 2018 23:15 UTC