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…41 Community Views Editor's Notebook What Has Happened To My Orthodoxy? MARK E. SCHLUSSEL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR The events over ues were compromised by the se- writings should be awed by the these past few duction for the outside world. compendium of Jewish thought months where Those who argue that we have and the challenge they present to one segment of failed miserably may have some each of us ...…
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