Phil Getz
By Phil Getz
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Opinion Eric Garner and Moshe Twersky Bound by History
Getty Images As I sit at my desk in a modern office building in lower Manhattan, the chants of angry protestors below grow louder. “I — can’t — breathe,” they shout, echoing the haunting final words of Eric Garner, whose death by asphyxiation I saw on video the day it occurred. It was in that…
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Opinion Kidnapped Students Could’ve Been Us
Phil Getz, center, relaxes with fellow yeshiva students in Gush Etzion several years ago Like many students and graduates of Israeli yeshiva, I have been refreshing my computer browser non-stop since Friday morning looking for any sign of hope for the three Israeli teenage boys who were kidnapped on Thursday evening. For those of us…
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