Tiffany Parks’ 2022 Passover Message
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Tiffany Parks’ 2022 Passover Message

Tiffany Parks shares her inspiration and thoughts on this year's Passover holiday with the community.

Tiffany Parks
Tiffany Parks

The brutal images coming out of the current war in Ukraine are the same images that I’ve seen in WWII documentaries.

As I watch these images, it reminds me of what Jews today and the Jews of WWII experienced. The houses with jagged, gaping holes are a metaphor for what’s happening to the people.

The color images of the dead villagers littering the streets, the bombed-out bridges, the desperate women and children fleeing, the worried faces of the men, the cold, steel tanks are all tragic.

However, I am reminded of the still-potent power of the Passover. In dark times, the children of Israel, along with their wise leader, Moses, prepared themselves to be delivered from the Pharaoh.

This was not a passive event. It took strength to see the mistreatment of your people and still have hope for a better future. The same is true today for the Jews in Ukraine and for all people going through unstable violent government regimes/systems.

Tiffany Parks is an English instructor at Gwinnett Technical College.

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