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Without a rabbi or synagogue, increasing numbers of young American Jews are creating alternative spiritual communities. A visit to the DC Minyan

Natasha Mozgovaya
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - An American Jewish journalist, a friend of mine, declared with evident pity that I have twice been a victim: first, of the Soviet system that tried to do away with all religions, and then of the Orthodox monopoly over religion in Israel, where I moved in 1990. The religious pluralism of American Judaism, he declared, is the ultimate therapy for that.

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