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"From the liver to the knee"—edgy Israeli humor stemmed from a deep-felt hope that the tides might just be shifting
I was sitting in shul yesterday morning, bright and early at 7:30, early enough that most of us typically just nod an almost silent “Shabbat Shalom” to each other until we’re more awake. (A few of us actually bring our coffee to shul.) A couple of minutes after I got seated, a friend of mine walked by me, but then stopped and turned around, and said to me, with no prompt: “My Holocaust survivor father is looking down on us, I’m sure, and is saying, ‘Good for you …. you’re returning to yourselves.’”
I don’t know what his father is or isn’t thinking, but I do know that that sentiment is…
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