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Re: “On Wishing I’d Been Sightless In Gaza” (Hebron Dispatch, July 21): Time for this naive rabbi to meditate on the word “clan.” Because that is at the heart of how Arab society operates. There is no Palestinian nation. There are merely clans and they look out for one thing and one thing only: their […]

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Regarding Rabbi Jerome Epstein’s “Not Yet in Israel, Ethiopian Jews Languish While Waiting” (Opinion, online). One week before Rabbi Epstein’s trip, I celebrated my bar mitzvah in Gondar, Ethiopia. On Shabbat, I read Parshat Balak before 1,100 people. Many of them had walked miles to hear the Torah read. Many Ethiopian Jews living in Gondar […]

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I was concerned with some of Gary Rosenblatt’s statements related to race relations in the United States (“Truth Under The Gun,” July 28). I agree that they are worse today and that is truly unfortunate. However, based on the tenor of the remarks on this issue, Rosenblatt and I would not agree on the reasons […]

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