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Nancy Pelosi Leads Congressional Delegation To Poland And Israel

(JTA) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, leading a congressional delegation to Poland and Israel to commemorate 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, laid a wreath at the former Nazi camp on Tuesday. Pelosi joined her Polish counterpart, Elzbieta Witek, the speaker of the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, and Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz […]

There’s No Time Like the Present

On Sunday 5th January I went out for a coffee with a friend. The new cycle of Daf Yomi was starting that day. Various friends and family had been talking about it in the previous weeks and I’d given it some thought too, but hadn’t really reached a conclusion.  She told me that she was […]

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