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Ten For The Ages: From 1,000 years of the Jewish story, the episodes that linger still.
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Ten For The Ages: From 1,000 years of the Jewish story, the episodes that linger still.
JONATHAN MARK
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Yes, the millennium is a Christian moment in time, but Jews were there for all of it. With all the lists marking the end of the epoch, there's a Jewish story deserving to be told.
We don't presume to have a person of the century or of the millennium, but we do have a Top 10 list of pivotal moments and pivotal generations that helped us get from there to here.
Let's be Jewish about this, and first remember the wagons that were lost along the way. Who remembers the 350-year ...
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