Pharaoh’s plea to Moses in this week’s Torah portion (Parashat Bo) could well be ours today. Battered by the first eight of 10 otherworldly plagues, destabilized and even disempowered by them, Pharaoh begs Moses to stop the onslaught: “Just remove this death from me!” (Exodus 10:17). Pharaoh’s suffering was real, yet ultimately blind to how Pharaoh himself and his people shared responsibility for their collective fate. Even if Pharaoh might have held the key to his best future by doing the right thing, that fleeting awareness faded as fast as each plague relented. Two more tragic plagues – darkness and...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
