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On Tisha b’Av, The Empty Spaces Within

Tisha b’Av acknowledges the power of the original Jewish injury — the opening salvo in the formation of a collective nostalgia, shaped by generations of loss.

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Horns Of Plenty

Of all the books that I read in high school, the one that moved me the most was Anthony Lewis’ 1964 bestseller “Gideon’s Trumpet,” the story of a destitute Florida prisoner, Clarence Earl Gideon, who became an unlikely hero of American jurisprudence. Gideon’s appeal of his conviction for the robbery of a pool hall led […]

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