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What Josh Shapiro Means to Me
To have a governor of our state who leads with his Jewish values feels like a wonderful antidote to the hate we have experienced.
Beth Kissileff is the co-editor of the anthology Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy, author of the novel Questioning Return and the editor of the anthology Reading Genesis. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, New York Times, Tablet, the Forward, 929English and Haaretz, among others. Visit her online at www.bethkissileff.com.
To have a governor of our state who leads with his Jewish values feels like a wonderful antidote to the hate we have experienced.
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An interview with the editor of Can Robots be Jewish: And Other Pressing Questions of Jewish Life.