Shemot

The Power of Names

By UDI HAMMERMAN

If we deny the names ─ the unique identity ─ of other people, of the creatures and plants and places of the earth, we risk becoming like Pharaoh and all the other despots of the world. Such a path, while often seeming to increase comfort and efficiency in the present, ultimately leads to slavery and oblivion.

Righteous Women Resist in Burma

By CAROL TOWARNICKY

Urge the United Nations to continue its efforts to demand justice for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the women of Burma fighting for democracy. This covert work echoes the story of the three unnamed daughters of Shemot's second act of subversion - to save the life of a boy named Moses.

Before a Redeemer Arises

By NINA WOUK

In bad times, it's good to be a Jew. And in extraordinary times, acts of ordinary decency constitute resistance to evil.