Noah, it should be all of our torment, not just Israel’s. (While, of course, the intimacy and intensity and existential nature of the Israeli experience can never be fully shared.) We should all stand in solidarity with the heartache and the outrage.

There was this moment after the initial murderous attacks when I would see non-Jews approach men in kippahs on an Amtrak train, in a restaurant, on a street, and say some words of condolence and respect. We........

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