Jonathan Zasloff: The prophecy deliberately creates ambiguity.
Jonathan Zasloff: In Transit, the elder teenage daughter dates a Jewish boy and does not understand when her mother speaks Tagalog.
Her younger brother develops a warm friendship with an elderly Holocaust survivor being cared for by the boy’s father. The old man teaches the young boy a love of Judaism, including how to leyn the weekly parasha.
I know: it’s a movie. We might wonder how many Filipino kindergarteners can leyn their parasha.
Jonathan Zasloff: Refugees and migrant workers throughout the world see Israel as a prime destination. They are not fools. They want to become Israeli. Israel’s response to this potential influx has not exactly made it a light to the nations.
More than 300,000 migrant workers – mostly from China, the Philippines, and eastern Europe — do the lion’s share of the unseen
Jonathan Zasloff: God has given contemporary Jewry the precious gift of foreign nations seeking us. This is strange, and unfamiliar, and an enormous opportunity.
