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The Orthodox world has abandoned its values by abandoning Palestinians

JL;DR SUMMARY Rachel Landsberg and Esther Sperber critique the Orthodox community for what they see as a troubling silence regarding Palestinian suffering, resulting in a distortion of Jewish values. 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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Israeli Palestinian ConflictOrthodox JudaismPalestiniansJusticeCompassionEqualityEsther SperberSmol EmuniMoral AccountabilityRachel Landsberg

Places mentioned

Nablus, Palestinian Territories
"after undercover Israeli border police killed four members of the Bani Odeh family as they drove home from a shopping trip in Nablus in mid-March"
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"The scale of Palestinian suffering in Gaza and the West Bank cannot be justified or ignored."
New York, United States
"Esther Sperber is a New York-based architect and one of the founders of Smol Emuni U.S."

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