Joshua Lesser
By Joshua Lesser
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Opinion The fight against QAnon in government is only just beginning
Over the course of our long history, the Jewish people have seen, with devastating frequency, what happens when antisemitism is granted a foothold. Dangerous on the fringes, it swiftly becomes deadly when granted legitimacy. There is no middle ground with an ideology that seeks the elimination of an entire people. Today the American people —…
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Opinion For Those Still Enslaved, Tomato Symbolizes Solidarity
Last year I put a tomato on my Seder plate. I invite you this year to consider doing the same. The retelling of our liberation story at Passover is powerful, but we deepen the sense of the story through tasting it symbolically. We ingest the bitterness of slavery through the maror. The saltiness of the…
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