Washington Jewish Week

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In this week's issue of Washington Jewish Week:

Winchester Man Saves 26 Chickens En Route to Kapparot in NYC
Bender JCC Honors 6 Youth Athletes
Maryland’s Hate Bias Reporting Series Returns

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AI has not yet become completely tribal. There is no inherent Republican position on artificial intelligence and corresponding Democratic one. https://t.co/esdHYi3LiL

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What responsibility does one Jewish generation have for the physical inheritance left by another? https://t.co/ihrSKvZJ8X

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Universality does not require hijacking one community’s day of mourning to lecture it about another community’s suffering. Compassion is not a zero-sum exercise. https://t.co/eo4tcRdTze

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As Blair argues, replacing two states with fantasies about eliminating one of them does nothing to advance Palestinian self-determination. https://t.co/aCFNNj1WlO

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For centuries, the Jews of the Arab world were told to remain in their seats. But just days ago, a plane full of Jews stood up. https://t.co/HqKCeGoU0p

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When a political consensus becomes deeply embedded, it begins to look inevitable. It isn’t. No political inheritance is self-executing. https://t.co/GnljwzeZiX

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We do not need your permission to live in our homeland. We do not need your permission to defend our children.
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A new survey from the national Federations umbrella group finds Jewish engagement higher than before the attacks. https://t.co/bTWrp0rFcj

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The newly-uncovered aqueduct brought spring water from Solomon’s Pools south of Bethlehem to the Temple Mount. https://t.co/aYbn0y7SKG

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The alternative to traditional college need not be no college at all. It may be a different kind of college. https://t.co/TjuPXnBq4P

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Israel should not have to spend eternity auditioning for the right to exist. https://t.co/gwjJXGcgze

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The passing of the survivor generation does not mean the Holocaust portfolio is becoming obsolete. It means the responsibility for carrying it forward is becoming ours. https://t.co/knpNJm4zk6

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Increasingly, Americans must pass cameras, guards, reinforced doors and concrete barriers simply to enter places built to be welcoming. That should trouble us. https://t.co/H3lWgS4uXU

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Today, we remember the lives lost and hostages taken at the Nova music festival three years ago.

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A confident democracy must tolerate people who want to change it. What it cannot tolerate is abandoning democratic politics for violence. https://t.co/VBkWGghXC6

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Philanthropy should never purchase academic conclusions. https://t.co/hOetUWixao

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Israel should resist the temptation to treat Saudi vulnerability as leverage for normalization. https://t.co/UO6S4us48U

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Oct. 7 reminded many Jews of something we had allowed ourselves to forget: Jewish life is neither inevitable nor self-sustaining. https://t.co/WnttRl0PU9

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Happy Sukkot from all of us at Washington Jewish Week!