D’var Torah: What Jewish resistance looks like

D’var Torah: What Jewish resistance looks like

When my grandfather, Rabbi Benson Skoff, was in the third grade, he ran for class president. He told me that he ran against a girl in his class and that he thought the gentlemanly thing to do would be to vote for her. And he expected her to do the same. She didn’t. When they tallied the votes, she had won by one vote. We all deal with adversaries a little differently. And we can’t always turn an enemy into a friend. But sometimes the most val…