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Opinion | The Bible Tells Us to Love Immigrants Original

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By Shai Held
| The New York Times Verified
A hallmark of the second Trump administration has been the hunt for the foreign born, from children to adults, criminal status apparently notwithstanding. Many of the administration officials who champion this project often invoke God in their speeches, asserting that their allegiance to the Constitution is rooted in their fealty to a far older text: the Bible.
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What’s Love Got to Do with It?

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By Benjamin Weiner, Akiva Schick, Yehudah Mirsky, Shai Held
| Jewish Review of Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 560 pp., $35 At five o’clock in the afternoon, in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Leopold Bloom finds himself in a Dublin pub, arguing over the meaning of life with a band of incredulous Christians.
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Passover's Radical Message Is More Vital Than Ever Original

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By Shai Held
| The New York Times Verified
What do we do with our pain? What, if anything, can we learn from it? The Bible offers a startling and potentially transformative response: Let your memory teach you empathy and your suffering teach you love. This week, Jews around the world will mark the beginning of Passover. We'll gather for Seders, in which we'll re-enact the foundational story of the Jewish people, the Exodus from Egypt.
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