Shifra Weiss-Penzias

As she prepares for Passover, Rabbi Shifra Weiss-Penzias is worried about the direction our country is headed. Her German-Jewish family escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, but her father always remembered the antisemitism he faced as a child and the quiet way fascism rose. She vehemently opposes the federal government’s current anti-immigrant stance and authoritarian tactics to kick people out. “Anyone who remembers life under fascism knows this is how it begins,” she writes.