In the start of 2020, Rabbi Shmulik & Chaya Berkowitz together with their son Sholom, established the first Jewish center in Turks & Caicos, to service the spiritual and physical needs of the local Jewish community, as well as the visitors to the island. Our goal is to strengthen Jewish awareness and pride for the Jewish residents, and the thousands of visitors to Turks & Caicos, regardless of background or affiliation.
Behind intolerance hides the most primal sense of ego, a clandestine belief that “I and my kind are the only thing that should be.”
People may give reasons for their intolerance, but the reasons are secondary. They despise others for the space they consume. Stripped to the bone, it is senseless hatred without reason.
It is the core of all evil. It is what holds the human soul in exile from the garden.
And its only cure is in unbridled acts of kindness, in opening your heart to the other guy regardless of how different and...