Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg is the spiritual leader of Congregation Etz Chaim of Kew Garden Hills in Queens, N.Y., and a Judaic-studies educator at SAR Academy in Riverdale, N.Y. His Unofficial Hogwarts Haggadah reached No. 10 overall on Amazon, and the Harry Potter Club at SAR was featured in The New York Times. He is also the author of Morality for Muggles: Ethics in the Bible and the World of Harry Potter.
Comforting African-Americans who are mourning the death of George Floyd requires the unconditional empathy due to every mourner, according to Jewish law.