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Doing Social Justice Doing Social Justice
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

Some years ago, when I was helping the daughter of friends prepare for her bat mitzvah, we got to talking about her ‘‘bat mitzvah project.’’  She confided that while her parents wanted her to do something Jewish, she wanted to do something related to social justice.  I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.