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Subscribe NowIn his Yom Kippur sermon this year at Manhattan’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch reflected on the miracle of Jewish survival, the persistence of anti-Semitism, and the condition of American Jews—especially of those in New York City—before ending with a moving tale of one Israeli’s heroism and self-sacrifice. (Video is available here.) He posed the following question:
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