THE COURAGE TO SEE EVIL (PODCAST)
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Rabbi Dunner weighs in on the Alex Jones defamation trial in Texas. Jones spent years claiming that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre never took place. The trial has been a cathartic moment for voices of reason, underscored by a desire to look evil in the eye and face it off. The theme of Devarim coincides with this idea, which runs all the way through the fifth book of the Torah.
THEY ARE CHAPTERS. WE ARE THE BOOK.
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