The Jewish Chronicle – In the eyes of the Torah, we are all the children of immigrants

Written by Benedict Roth (Year ’88-’89, Summer ’12, ’15) – The tension between narrower and more universal interpretation of the Torah is highlighted by a well-known verse in this week’s sidrah. Nowhere does the Jewish pendulum swing so rapidly from inclusiveness to xenophobia, from openness to suspicion, as it does at the start of this week’s Torah reading, the parashah of Ki Tavo.