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EST 1917

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There were calls today to use last night’s controversial Metropolitan Opera presentation of “The Death of Klinghoffer” as a teachable moment in the fight against anti-Semitism. The John Adams opera is based on the assassination of an elderly Jew, Leon Klinghoffer, by four members of the Palestine Liberation Organization during their 1985 hijacking of the […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 5:46 p.m. Torah: Gen. 6:9-11:32; Numbers 28:9-15 Haftarah: Isaiah 66:1-24 Havdalah: 6:44 p.m. The theme of building is prominent in the early chapters of Genesis. The text presents certain episodes of building as positive, others less favorably. The first instance of building appears in the Garden of Eden. Adam was commanded […]

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