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“I saw you from my window so I came down to help you,” she explains
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Rav Yehuda Alkalai (1798–1878) served as rabbi of Belgrade and was an early proponent of Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel
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No longer in the headlines, Ukraine’s battered Jewish communities struggle to survive
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Salvation sprouts from decline
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How I’m going to stop the guys, I don’t know. I just know that if I don’t find out more, I definitely can’t do anything.
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Finally, Annie spoke. “Abe, quiet them down. We’ve got to tell them”
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She no longer viewed you as a person made b’tzelem Elokim, let alone a parent
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Reading to women in the nursing home wasn’t meant to be this hard
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The suffering we have historically endured preserves our identity as Yidden
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Existentially, perhaps more than at any time in my life, I am taking our suffering into account
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