It began with a seemingly polite question from my longtime doctor during my annual physical in December, 2023: “So how are things at Pepperdine?”
Immediately, in the context of that moment, I knew it was much more than small talk. Over almost 20 years as my GP, we’ve rarely discussed faith — he a Jew, and I a Christian. Just a year earlier, he had told me with great pride that his daughter had been admitted to a highly-regarded public university in the Midwest. On this day, he haltingly described that young lady’s trials as Jew on campus, wondering whether she should put a Hanukkah Menorah up in her dorm room window out of fear of attack.
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