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These Were Precisely The Sort Of Theological Questions We Were Not Supposed To Be Thinking About. We Were Supposed To Do And Not Do—Go To Shul

Ref These were precisely the sort of theological questions we were not supposed to be thinking about. We were supposed to do and not do—go to shul Release House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025) 1 pages

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don’t eat shrimp—and to ask our Rabbi what to think about such esoteric issues. They know the religiously correct answer. Yet the addition of the two words to the pledge forced me not only to think about them but to try to place them in the context of my own role as a young Orthodox Jewish skeptic in a largely Christian America. Our school taught us that even though America was a majority Christian country

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