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1 day ago • Oct 10, 2026

It’s Time to Write a New Beginning

By
Rabbi Sharon Brous

The Cornell 57 has reawakened critical conversations around violence, complicity, and the bystander effect. It also reveals the failure of the dominant stories we tell around gender, subjugation, dehumanization. This is an urgent reminder that another world is possible.

Parashat Bereishit 5787

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