Jewish voices struggle to find words of reconciliation in face of campus violence
LOS ANGELES — Standing at a cloth-draped table where the Torah is read, Rabbi Sharon Brous delivered her Saturday sermon, recounting her experience at a recent UCLA protest.
Demonstrators draped in Israeli flags screamed at students in keffiyehs. The rhetoric was hateful, laced with threats of violence, she said.
"It felt like everyone was drowning in opposite ends of a raging sea, a sea of grief and fury," she told nearly 250 members of her congregation, IKAR, gathered in their place of worship, a high school gymnasium on Fairfax Avenue earlier this month.
She described feeling heartbroken by what she witnessed on April 28, "by the language and the vitriol that came from our own Jewish community … language that I have to say matched some of the worst language that we've heard
