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It is the hope of a small template for a sign to be held in a long ago vigil within the city, an artifact and its message that endures, words of witness to remind, words whose urgency is no less today than it was then, proclaiming in block letters, “LET EVERYONE VOTE!”
Steven Shankman reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his teaching, reading, and writing over the past several months.
Bill McKibben - https://youtu.be/47ILVzwJ17s
Deena Metzger - https://youtu.be/k2Ia2wuUg4w
Shaul Magid - https://youtu.be/fsSyrCA-C7I
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Rabbi Mark Marmur - https://youtu.be/W-vr43iF-T0
Breaking the Silence - https://youtu.be/njfYWirxYQs
Originally delivered at the Worship and Study Harvard Hillel, Yom Kippur, Sept. 18, 2010
Repurposed for the Tikkun community, September 2020; Elul 5780
By Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
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