By tova stabin

I’ve been attending political rallies and events of one sort or another since I was about 12 years old — so well over a half a century. I’ve been going to synagogues longer than that. Currently, I belong to the local synagogue Temple Beth Israel and work with the Racial Justice Committee and the Board (all opinions here are my own). I go to temple services for holidays, sometimes on Friday nights and occasionally Saturday morning.

I don’t consider myself a particularly religiously observant Jew, but the Sabbath is important to me. Even when I don’t go to services, I try to make Saturday be a different sort of day. Maybe I have French toast challah (leftover from the night before), lounge a little longer by a bench at Delta Ponds, read a novel (rather than obsessing about

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