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Who Is Really Free?

JL;DR SUMMARY Cindy Scarr explores the concept of freedom, particularly during Passover, by highlighting a distinction between physical and spiritual freedom. 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 HistoryHolocaustPurimFaithExodusJewish ResiliencePesachSpiritual FreedomEternal FreedomGerrer Chassidim

Places mentioned

Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Five weeks before Pesach 5703, the Nazis yemach shemam liquidated the Krakow Ghetto."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"STANDING IN the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw five years ago, Rabbi Ilan Segal read from an account in the Bais Yaakov Journal (Sivan 5721) of the last weeks in the Warsaw Ghetto of a group of about 70 Gerrer chassidim."
Hong Kong, China
"In our own time, Jimmy Lai, the richest man in Hong Kong, a self-made billionaire from a dirt-poor rural background, is held in solitary confinement for his efforts as head of Hong Kongs pro-democracy movement."
Russian Federation
"Similarly free was Alexei Navalny, leader of the Russian opposition, whom the KGB nearly succeeded in poisoning while abroad."

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