In late February, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported that some 180 alumni from the Frisch School, an Orthodox Jewish high school in Paramus, New Jersey, wrote an open letter to Jared Kushner, an alumnus of the school and son-in-law and advisor to President Donald Trump. The letter addressed Trump’s refugee moratorium and asked Kushner to use his influence to convince Trump to ease the moratorium. The letter also used Bible verses to strengthen its position, the most notable being the verse appearing multiple times in the Torah (Old Testament) commanding that we “love and welcome the stranger, for we too were once strangers in Egypt.”
However, as an Orthodox Jew who studies the Torah, I can say that the comparison of “loving the stranger” and taking in unvetted Muslim refugees is asinine, if not an outright lie.
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