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Do Our Rabbis Believe in God?

JL;DR SUMMARY Peter Beinart challenges rabbis to reevaluate their spiritual priorities amid the context of the Israel-Palestine 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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GazaGodHumanitarian CrisisIsrael PalestineRabbisDivine WillMoral CourageAndre UngerCongregational Pressure

Places mentioned

Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Medical Aid for Palestinians, which is trying to help Palestinians in Gaza and beyond...."
New York, United States
"Our guest will be New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg."
Berkeley, California, United States
"I talked to University of California at Berkeley historian Ussama Makdisi."
Chisinau, Chișinău, Moldova
"I said that Kishinev (now called Chishinau), site of the infamous 1903 pogrom, was in Ukraine...."
Romania
"From 1940 onward, having been part of Romania from the end of World War II, it became part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR."
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
"a 25-year-old young Reform rabbi in the city of Port Elizabeth, actually, the city where part of my family comes from."

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