Our Country Was Built on a Stolen Beam: The Call for a National Reckoning

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Rabbi Sharon Brous

Rosh Hashanah 2 5778 Sermon. Rabbi Sharon Brous

We can’t undo the past. But we can name it, take responsibility for it, and do everything in our power to fix what’s been broken. A Jewish case for REPARATIONS.

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