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After terror, can Jews move forward without isolating?

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Boaz Heilman, reflecting on recent antisemitic attacks, including a Molotov cocktail assault in Boulder, Colorado, explores how Jewish communities can advance without succumbing to isolation. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureHolocaust SurvivorsJewish IdentityInterfaith RelationshipsJusticePolitical SupportCommunity ResilienceHate Attacks

Places mentioned

Boulder, Colorado, United States
"Lisa Turnquist of Louisville, Colorado, lays flowers and a flag at the site of the attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2 in Boulder, Colorado."
Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
"Rabbi Boaz Heilman has served as rabbi at congregations in Sudbury, MA, Laconia, NH, and is set to retire at the end of this month from Congregation Bnai Torah in Westminster, CO."
Laconia, New Hampshire, United States
"Rabbi Boaz Heilman has served as rabbi at congregations in Sudbury, MA, Laconia, NH, and is set to retire at the end of this month from Congregation Bnai Torah in Westminster, CO."
Westminster, Colorado, United States
"Rabbi Boaz Heilman has served as rabbi at congregations in Sudbury, MA, Laconia, NH, and is set to retire at the end of this month from Congregation Bnai Torah in Westminster, CO."
Washington DC, United States
"This was the second time in two weeks, after a shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., that violent acts struck the heart of the Jewish community in the United States."
Louisville, Colorado, United States
"Lisa Turnquist of Louisville, Colorado, lays flowers and a flag at the site of the attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2 in Boulder, Colorado."
Israel
"and, three times, from Nazi jails. In the end, she found a relative who worked for the British, who prepared entrance papers for her into the land that the world at the time called Palestine."
Hungary
"My mother escaped the Nazis and their collaborators in Poland and Hungary."
Poland
"My mother escaped the Nazis and their collaborators in Poland and Hungary."

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