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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Seth Lavin

My ancestors fled pogroms. Chicago let them in and must do the same for migrants.

Karen Malave (left), an asylum seeker from Venezuela, and her daughter, Avril Brandelli, smile as another child runs past them at the 16th District police station in May. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

Monday is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. All around us, somber voices will lift in prayer.

We Jews have always been a wandering people. I am here because my ancestors fled pogroms. Chicago let them in.

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