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A ‘pilot light’ of global compassion is awakened for Ukraine

It is a phrase I heard many years ago – from an Orthodox rabbi with a long, graying beard and a twinkle of optimism in his eyes – and it’s been increasingly on my mind amid the Russian army’s murderous assault on besieged civilians in Ukraine.

. The words are Yiddish. And, as the rabbi explained, they encapsulate the traditional belief that inside any Jewish person, however distant or alienated from his faith, there’s always a tiny flicker of Jewishness waiting to

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