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Finding Comfort by Facing Our Fears
One of the challenges of a weekly deadline post is that I write something a day or two ahead, it gets vetted, edited, formatted, and then gets published on Friday. In between that writing moment – usually by Thursday morning – and that sending moment, things happen. Usually they don’t profoundly alter my state and…
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CJP/JCRC Joint Statement on Terror and Extremism in Israel and the West Bank
CJP and JCRC condemn the horrific extremist and terrorist attacks in Israel and the West Bank. A terrorist arson attack against Palestinians in the village of Duma left an infant, 18-month old Ali Saad Dawabsha, dead and his four-year-old sibling and parents badly injured. In a separate incident, six Israelis at Jerusalem’s gay pride festivities were…
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Creating Space
This Sunday we will observe the fast of Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the lunar month of Av, on which we commemorate the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. I have no doubt, especially this year, that you will be inundated with various messages concerning this day, the tradition…
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