Jewish Center’s Plight Calls Forth Angels
Much of the news nowadays concerns the seamier side of life, giving plenty of reason to be discouraged about human nature.
Most articles, while informative, are anything but uplifting.
Every once in a while, however, comes a story describing how people of goodwill can work together and unselfishly to better conditions for others.
The May 3 article, “Episcopal ‘Angel’ Helps Save a Jewish Center,” about the cooperative efforts to save the Silver Lake Jewish Community Center, is just exactly that.
Everyone named in the article -- the Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, attorney Janie Schulman and colleagues at her law firm, Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti -- clearly put the good of the community above all else and in a small but significant way contributed to improving the human condition.
Today, having learned of their efforts to save the center, I find the world a little brighter than yesterday, and I feel a little more encouraged that man was really made just a little lower than the angels.
Roy M. Pitkin
La Quinta
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