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Yom Kippur

If you’re paying attention to the Yom Kippur Torah portion, you’ll notice a lot of goats. In Leviticus, Aaron is commanded to “place lots” on two goats: one for God, and one for azazel—that is, the goat sent into the desert to die, while conveniently bearing the sins of the community. While most of us […]

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  On September 22, 1928, two days before Yom Kippur, four-year-old Barbara Griffiths stepped outside her home in Massena, New York and didn’t return. A search party was formed—which included several Ku Klux Klan members—and rumors began spreading that the town’s Jews kidnapped and ritually murdered her. The blood libel accusation—that Jews bake the blood […]

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