I want to tell you about a Jewish hero of mine. Her name is Maya Paley, and you’ve probably never heard of her. Maya Paley is a young Jewish woman living in Los Angeles. In 2010, when she was 27 years old, she worked in Israel on a social justice fellowship, researching the plight of the more than 60,000 African asylum seekers currently living in a state of limbo in Israel. These refugees are caught in a legal Catch-22 in which they are often held in detention centers or left to fend for themselves on the streets of Tel Aviv, without legal permission to work or the ability to apply for refugee status. Maya’s experience getting to know some of these refugees touched her heart and ignited her passion for justice. This past summer, back in the U.S., she and her friend Stephen Slater launched a grass-roots effort to raise consciousness about this troubling situation and to press the Israeli government to act justly. Their gutsy, social media-savvy campaign, called Right Now, is already ma...