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"We need two kinds of ancestral roots. We need folk roots, the memories of persons and places that describe our beginnings and development. We also need ethical roots, role models of behavior from our family tree."![]()
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Rabbi Sherwin Wine had many thoughts about what the Purim story means for our people through the traditional and humanistic lenses, including the importance of naming and learning from Jewish heroes and how the story reminds us to remain watchful for historical surges in antisemitism throughout societies worldwide.![]()
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Today, we invite you to read a few of his essays on Purim in his archives: bit.ly/41EGeQD
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Note on sources: The Jewish Humanist was the monthly newsletter of The Birmingham Temple. The periodical Humanistic Judaism was the quarterly journal of the Society for Humanistic Judaism. The Center ...