Article: Jewish tradition is a model for America's public values.(Culture, Et Cetera)

Excerpts from a Sabbath sermon given Saturday by Rabbi Jack Moline at Agudas Achim Congregation in Alexandria.

If I were asked to make a contribution from Jewish tradition to American culture, something America needed that Judaism had, I would pick the next four days. Today is Shabbat Sakhor, the sabbath of remembrance. Monday is Ta'anit Ester, the fast of Esther. And Monday night and Tuesday are, or course, Purim.

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The sequence of these events and the lessons they contain are part of the not-so-secret secret of Jewish survival. . . .

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