Celebrating Asian Jewishness

We explore via the commandment in this portion to the Levites, that they be "cleansed for fitness to serve God," and Peter the Shaliakh's mandate that to be healthy spiritually, our godly qualities must grow, not stagnate ... we celebrate Asian Jewishness in our synagogue and the world at large - and the multiracial nature of both the Jewish nation and all humankind. In age of increased "Othering" - we seek to "give effort to the spirit of unity and the bond of peace," as Paul exhorted us in Ephesians 4.