Dear Mark Zuckerberg, the Kiddush cup is lovely, but what about anti-Semitism on FB?

September 18, 2017

The following was written by Sarah Tuttle-Singer Dear Mark Zuckerberg, I was touched by your Shabbat Facebook post about your family kiddush cup, and how you’ve passed it on to your daughter, Max. It really moved me. We have this kiddush cup in my family, too … Ours is made of crystal, but it’s so, so strong. It survived a pogrom and a long voyage across the ocean, and a bumpy train ride from New York to Chicago. That kiddush cup made it from Fairfield Avenue and Devon, to Fort Worth, Texas, and then all the way to California, on a street lined with skinny palm trees… And now, that kiddush cup is home in Israel. It sits on our Sabbath table. One day, it’ll go to my children. It’s my family’s history in glass — and each refraction is perfect and true, and it has endured for over a century,

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