Judaism Was Never Just a Religion
By Steve Freedman
We are in a stretch of the Jewish calendar that, if you take note, tells us exactly who we are. We have just completed the celebration of Pesach, where we retell the story of leaving Egypt, the moment that transforms a family into a people. We then moved into Yom HaShoah, a day established by the State of Israel to commemorate the Holocaust as a Jewish catastrophe, and then, within days, we will observe and celebrate Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, marking sacrifice and independence on behalf of the modern Jewish state. These are different moments, different experiences, different histories, and yet they all point to the same underlying truth. Before anything else, we are a people.
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