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the year in
a
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As 5776 winds to
a close, here’s a
look back on the
highs and lows
(and everything in
between) of the
year that was.

Ben Harris | (JTA)

100 September 29 • 2016

stabbing and car-ramming
epidemic in Israel that
some called a third inti-
fada was among the most
dominant Jewish stories
of the past year. But 5776
was also notable for the release of spy
Jonathan Pollard after 30 years in prison, the
communal fallout from the Iran nuclear deal,
a historic (and unfinished) agreement on
egalitarian worship at the Western Wall and
continuing clashes between pro-Israel stu-
dents and the BDS movement on college
campuses.

Here is a timeline of the Jewish year’s
major events — the good, the bad and, in
the case of the deaths of some Jewish giants,
the very sad.