Judaism Provides a Set of Ta Tons That Are Important to Me and My Children

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I'm technically a conservative jew, you know, not conserved in the political sense. I think judaism provides a set of ta tons that are important to me andn important to my children. There's a community that we're part of. My wife is from the former soviet union where am on the one hand, her identity documents were stamped with with jew as her group identity. So i think that for her as well, it's very important that we, that we bring our children up with these traditions.

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