A grass-roots campaign asks Jews to focus on Israel’s terror victims while engaged in Torah study. The project, launched by Yeshiva University and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, will last through March 15, and honors a Jewish tradition of Torah study for the dead to raise their souls to a higher level.
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