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Hello and welcome back to chutzpah. Real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish

brilliance and a little bit of Googling to answer a letter sent by you, the listener, about an

issue that is live in your life. I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman.

And I'm Hannah Rosen. We've heard from a lot of you in response to our most recent episodes,

which have been about Israel. People have told us they're helping us think through things,

helping us figure out what to say to their children, people they talk to about this issue,

and we are touched by that, and we're grateful, and please keep sending letters.

We're going to talk about the Israel-Gaza issue as long as we feel that it's alive

and urgent in our listeners, but it won't be forever.

So please keep writing in questions to chutzpod at gmail.com about that or really anything

in your life because we will shift to that.

Oh, by the way, but can I just say one thing before we officially dive in, which is that a number

of you, lovely, lovely listeners have correctly written to me about a quote from

Gold in My Ear, which I used two weeks ago on the podcast, and I stated it incorrectly.

But the quote that Golden Mayor actually said was, we will only have peace with the Arabs

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