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No Beautiful Day in This Neighborhood By Hank Silverberg I am writing this on Sunday morning in the social hall at my temple. There is a group of students nearby practicing for their Bā€™Nai Mitzvah. It is a cold fall day with rain in the forecast, and two Stafford County, Virginia, Sheriffā€™s deputies are sitting in their patrol cars in the parking lot. On the other side of the wall, in the sanctuary, sits a Torah scroll that was rescued from the city of Nymburk, in what was once Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.   It has found a safe place at this temple, which is a place where I too feel at home while my wife helps run the congregation kitchen.  My four-year-old grandson is in nearby classroom learning the Hebrew alphabet, and his younger brother is crawling on the floor near his mother's ever-watchful eyes. It is 10 a.m. on Sunday when millions of Americans are at church or temple in what has been labeled as the most segregated hour in America. Yet I must questio...

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