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Before Tisha B'Av: Lessons from Singapore and Japan for repairing Israeli society - opinion

· By STEWART WEISS
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History – particularly Jewish history – does not exist in a vacuum; it is neither random nor capricious. The Sages teach that no event – certainly no major episode in Jewish history, and certainly not regarding Israel – occurs by happenstance. They illustrate this by rearranging the letters of mikreh, accidental, to…

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