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Dedi Firestone's avatar

Insightful, calming, hopeful. Thanks, Gary.

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Ira Rifkin's avatar

Clear and to the point. Good going, boss.

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James Strosberg's avatar

Gary, one of your best columns at this sad and most difficult time as American Jews.

The quote from Rabbi Hadar was helpful - although no longer optimistic for our future, we can remain hopeful

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Bernard Horowitz's avatar

Thanks, Gary.

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wsjabraham's avatar

Thank you, Gary, for clearly articulating what so many of us are feeling. One other observation: as someone who was also at the March for Soviet Jewry, and has participated in demonstrations on behalf of other groups, I was sad to see the uniformly Caucasian complexion of participants last Tuesday.

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Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg's avatar

This essay really helped me. As crazy as it sounds, as I read, I found myself hoping it would end so that there would be no chance to spoil what felt flawless. Thank you, Gary.

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