Opinion | Poland’s Democratic Comeback
Poland has a long tradition of bucking political trends.
Poland has a long tradition of bucking political trends.
“Most people don’t think in those terms,” says Goldman; what is more powerful is “a sense that God has chosen the Jews, that God has made promises to the Jews, that those promises still hold and God is still delivering.”
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On the sixteenth day of the war, I found hope in an underground parking garage.
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“I’ve been to four marches on the National Mall,” said David Krieger of Florida. “A 1973 Vietnam War protest, the 1987 March for Soviet Jewry, during the Second Intifada in 2002 and today.”