Some Reflections on My AIPAC Policy Conference Experience Rabbi Philip Ohriner The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is an extraordinary venue. 2.3 million-square-feet of meeting space. That’s something like 43 football fields. Generally, it houses conventions like the upcoming American Medical student Association or the GE healthcare User summit or the American Association for Cancer Research. It draws people together who share a profession or a hobby or a specific health concern. But once a year, for the past decade or so, the convention center houses an event that transcends professions and hobbies. It even transcends religion, race, and political affiliation. This event is the AIPAC policy conference. To walk into the convention center in DC is an overwhelming experience, the building spans 5 city blocks. But when I walked ...
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People and nations are resilient. The terrorist’s goal is to intimidate and demoralize. Strong societies like the United States and Israel instead respond with strengthened resolve. Rabbi Daniel Pressman Here’s what we don’t know: Who did it. Why they did it. Whether it was a domestic or foreign terrorist. Whether the perpetrator was working alone or was part of a group. How a human being becomes so wicked and callous that they could even contemplate wreaking such indiscriminate harm on other human beings. Here’s what we do know (or can guess with confidence): Initial news reports are typically unreliable, exacerbated by the relentless appetite of the 24-hour news cycle. At the time of this writing, all we know is that three people were killed, including a child, and over 150 ...
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