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Issue 53 | July 2020

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Till Death Do Us Part – Graveyard Weddings

Sara Barnea

Two orphans are about to tie the knot. But the wedding procession leads to the local cemetery. What was behind this strange 19th-century custom, and what storm brewed in its wake? Sara Barnea On the first day of Nisan, 1909, a J

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Book Review | Social Vision

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Rooting the Rebbe’s far-reaching campaigns directly in the Baal Shem Tov’s ideology, a sociologist explains why the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s vision was best suited to and carried out from the land of the free Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Social