Joseph Potasnik
By Joseph Potasnik
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Community Making the broken whole again this Rosh Hashanah
I will never forget reading, some years ago, a moving story of a group of Holocaust survivors who were members of a synagogue in New Jersey. Prior to the High Holidays, they decided that they wanted to make a unique contribution to the congregation. They took the yellow stars of David which they still possessed…
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Opinion Israel Makes Some Headway at U.N.
As someone who has protested outside the gates of the United Nations on several occasions, I find it astonishing to now witness some heartening developments at the world body. Contrary to the dire predictions that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, settlement growth, and systemic discrimination at the United Nations are leading to Israel’s increasing…
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