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Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

During a sermon last month on the first day of Rosh Hashanah before the fragile

ceasefire, Rabbi Angela Bookdahl told her central synagogue congregation in Manhattan,

among the largest in the world, quote, I have never been so afraid to talk about Israel.

I want to tell you about my unconditional love for the Israeli people and our beleaguered homeland, still

desperately struggling to bring its hostages home, still trying to eliminate Hamas terrorists,

that not only refuse to lay down their arms, but intentionally trap their own people inside

a combat zone. Then she said, I also want to tell you how my heart breaks over the civilian

deaths and tragic suffering in Gaza,

the shattering destruction of Palestinian homes and cities.

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