"It was Herzl's crippling sense of responsibility that led him to suggest the Uganda Plan"

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"It was Herzl's crippling sense of responsibility that led him to suggest the Uganda Plan"

On the eve of Tisha B'av, our conversation with historian and communal leader Dr. Laura Shaw Frank, who urges a new—and urgent—way for us all to think about Jewish history.

Jul 26, 2023

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Dr. Laura Shaw Frank (Photo credit: Jonathan Edelman)

The horrifying irony that the events of this past week have unfolded as we prepare for the fast day of Tisha B’Av, tonight, has escaped few of us. Tisha B’av is a day on which, tradition says, both Temples were destroyed, the second one some six centuries after the first. Knowing that history, or know…

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