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giving and taking

giv­ing On May Day, The New York Times pub­lished an arti­cle about how to deter­mine how much mon­ey you should donate, sug­gest­ing that “God Knows”. The arti­cle states that “Amer­i­cans gave away 2.2 per­cent of their per­son­al dis­pos­able income to … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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on following orders

you decide how to go Last year (2009) at this time of Yom haShoah I wrote that I believe that all Jew­ish teenagers (at least) should expe­ri­ence a week of sho’a night­mares. I was in my ear­ly 20s when I tried to imag­ine the life … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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