BY SHARON CROSS, SISTERHOOD PRESIDENT
"OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO*
Summertime and everyone is on the move, traveling to new places…visiting family…sight- seeing and bringing home photos and photos of their adventures. As part of this sense of adventure, we, as Jews, have the wonderful opportunity to explore our Jewish connection worldwide. Whether we are in the United States or abroad, we are part of a larger Jewish community. Judaism is with us wherever we go. We can share this wonderful sense of belonging with our families. So many of us visit Jewish places of interest in our travels. Make it part of your plans, too. Oh, the things you will learn!
Throughout the United States there are so many sites of Jewish interest: from the east coast, with the Jewish Museum in New York, to one of the oldest synagogues in the U.S. in Charleston, S.C., to the Simon Wiesenthal Institute in Los Angeles, and so many others in between.
On a visit to Prague, we saw many artifacts of Jewish interest and visited a beautifully decorated synagogue, where we listened to a wonderful concert. In the Caribbean, in Curacao, we visited a synagogue with a sand floor. In Budapest.... a visit to the Dohany Street Synagogue, with a native Jewish tour guide who was a member of the synagogue. Our view of the synagogue in Rome was surprising because of the guards with guns outside. And in Israel, all the many ancient and current Jewish sites are always part of any plan for a visit.
With our rich heritage, we can explore our history and make it part of our lives wherever we go. Let us strengthen that extraordinary Jewish connection and make it part of our lives and our families lives.
Oh, the places you can go!
*with apologies to Dr. Seuss
B’Shalom
Sharon Cross
Sisterhood President
