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As starvation mounts in Gaza, Jewish voices increasingly rise up in consternation

JL;DR SUMMARY Amidst a worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, Jewish voices are rising in concern over the humanitarian toll of the ongoing conflict. 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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HamasGazaHuman RightsAmerican Jewish CommitteeRabbi Jill JacobsHumanitarian CrisisJewish VoicesHungerRandy Fine

Places mentioned

Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Yazan, a malnourished 2-year-old Palestinian boy, sit with his brothers at their familys damaged home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 23, 2025."
Israel
"Its difficult to know exactly what is happening in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas since Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel."
Long Island, New York, United States
"All the cries about our security and the dismissing of every critic as an antisemite or a self-hating Jew or alternatively blaming everything on Hamas or denying that multitudes are starving, will never justify that people (infants!) are dying of hunger, Rabbi Steven Moskowitz of the Reform synagogue Congregation Dor VDor on Long Island, wrote in a blog post."
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
"Another rabbi, Aaron Weininger of the Conservative synagogue Adath Israel in suburban Minneapolis, addressed the situation on Facebook."
London, United Kingdom
"said the letter, which was initiated by rabbis Jonathan Wittenberg in London, Art Green in Boston and Ariel Pollak in Tel Aviv."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"said the letter, which was initiated by rabbis Jonathan Wittenberg in London, Art Green in Boston and Ariel Pollak in Tel Aviv."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"said the letter, which was initiated by rabbis Jonathan Wittenberg in London, Art Green in Boston and Ariel Pollak in Tel Aviv."

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