Enjoy a short thought by Rabbi Chaim Mintz on the Fast of The Seventeenth of Tammuz.
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Walking through the anti-Semitic ridden streets of Kaunus, Lithuania, I found myself being accosted with expressions of disgust, such as “zhid” or “dirty Jew.” As I heard these words being […]
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