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Stephen Miller's cavalier cruelty misses the whole point of Passover

JL;DR SUMMARY Jay Michaelson contrasts the compassionate essence of Passover with the hardline immigration stance of Stephen Miller, highlighting the ethical teachings from the Jewish Exodus story. 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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PassoverJewish LawImmigrationExodusCompassionDeportationEthicsDue ProcessStephen Miller

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El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador
"But the only way we can know that the only way to satisfy the conditional part of Millers statement is to have some judicial process that establishes it. That process may still be flawed; it may still convict innocent people. But it is the essence of democracy as opposed to authoritarianism. Its also how the general imperative of do not oppress a stranger gets translated into practice. Jewish law does not rest on generalities; in often excruciating detail, it p... a prison camp in El Salvador without any due process inevitably leads to mistakes, in which at least five completely innocent people (it appears) were swept up in the dragnet."
Israel
"r the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse."
United States
"r the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse."

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