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Regarding “Synagogues Get Their Own (Scape) Goat” (Sept. 26), on Yom Kippur, as part of our teen services, we received submissions to our Temple Emanu-El eScapegoat (www.emanuelnyc.org/eScapegoat) — a very contemporary and immediate take on the “Al Chait” prayer. There were many submissions to the goat. These are the ones we are sharing: “I am […]

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During the years of Nazi occupation of France, Albert Modiano, father of the newest Nobel laureate in literature, refused to wear the yellow star that Jews were required to wear. When he was arrested by French police working with the Gestapo, he was inexplicably freed by a black marketer working in collaboration with the Gestapo. […]

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Frustration over the lack of progress in resolving the Palestinian issue is on display in a variety of forms, most of them deeply troubling for Israel, which is being blamed for the impasse. The White House warned recently that Israeli housing plans in east Jerusalem would alienate “even its closest allies.” And after Israeli Prime […]

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