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Comfort? After Murder and Terror, How?

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July 31, 2015

Tomorrow is Shabbat Nachamu/Comfort.  It’s (named for the Haftarah portion, Isaiah 40:1-26), a“>stabbed six people before he was overcome by police. Two of his victims remain in critical condition following surgery. Our rabbis tell us that it was baseless hatred between Jews that weakened us to the point where our second Temple was destroyed. Of course it was an occupying colonial power, the Roman Empire, which did the destroying, but in-fighting and a lack of solidarity between Jews made us especially vulnerable.


Upon returning home from our songs and dances, our matchmaking, our chocolate treats, our prayers for the injured in Jerusalem and our resolutions to combat baseless hatred among ourselves, we received even more horrifying news: a “price tag” “>B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization calls for“>T’ruah, a North American rabbinic human rights organization calls for

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