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The memorial for coronavirus victims, a step toward healing, recalled the Yom Kippur service when we remember those we have lost
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Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and modern cancel culture
These inspirational leaders, both flawed, and the greats who inspired them, would flunk today’s PC criteria as worthy topics for academic study
Brian Horowitz
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Nadav Tamir
Now is the time for female leadership in Israel
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Rabbi Akiva insisted that the Jewish calendar be fixed and immutable, and then acted as if the rejected opinions were legitimate. Whatever was he thinking?
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