Danya Ruttenberg is a rabbi and author of Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting, and six other books. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, WaPo, Time, and many other pubs. She was named a "rabbi to watch" by Newsweek, and the Forward included her on a list of the 50 most influential women rabbis.
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The Question 2017 Made Us Ask
2017 was a year in which people were all too often treated as means to an end.
Perhaps in 2018 we can inscribe a different kind of a lesson.
The Requirements of Hope
As writer, activist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel noted, “Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.”