become a kind of educational device for the community itself, and really you've become a kind of knewishing, nourishing community kind of reflective experience. i'm wondering what letters to the editor reflect that deeper kind of i would say yearning that we all have to be connected and to care for one another. >> that's a beautiful way of putting it. i think we do all have a yearning to connect and that's what a jewish publication does for a jewish community. again, not an unthinking or uncritical connection, but exploring what is meaningful about this. at the same time, this week we in the jewish press around the country are very involved in looking at hate groups and white nationalist, white supremacist groups who are spouting antisemitic as well as antiimmigrant hate. i as the editor of "j." has to be concerned about how it is effecting our local jewish community and people also want to read recipes and get ready for shabbat and cook and send their children to jewish schools and want to read the commentary of the week so we have to pay attention to the diverse roles that we play in the