Image: My homemade “What’s a Jew to Do?” Valentine card (Photo by R. Ruth Adar)
Valentine’s Day is here, and there’s nothing Jewish about it. If you want to know about the Jewish holiday of love, read A Jewish Valentine’s Day?
That said, I am all in favor of a day that reminds us to tell our loved ones “I love you.” Truth is, we should be doing that every day.
I see the pain Feb 14 gives some of my single friends, and the widows, and those whose marriages are suffering. I wonder about the kindness of a day devoted to expressions of romantic love, a day that winds up excluding all but the already happy.
I celebrate the day by telling my beloved that I love her (as I do every day) and sending a donation to Shalom Bayit, an organization working against domestic violence in my home town.
Down with pain, up with love! I think that’s an idea we can all support.
“Down with pain, up with love! I think that’s an idea we can all support.”
Great!