Uri L’Tzedek is an Orthodox social justice organization guided by Torah values and dedicated to combating suffering and oppression. Through community-based education, leadership development, and action, Uri L’Tzedek creates discourse, inspires leaders, and empowers the Jewish community towards creating a more just world.
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Stigma in the Jewish Community- What's the big secret about addiction? An Interview with Rabbi Chaim Tureff
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How and why do we maintain the status quo which makes it difficult for those struggling with addiction to come forward? In this podcast, we look at the Torah as a guide to remind us of how to help those struggling with addiction and to open the door for those that are struggling in private. Watch the video recording of this class on Uri L’Tzedek’s …
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Should we publicly advocate that Hasidic children receive a secular education?
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Beatrice Weber joins Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz for an interview to discuss how the value of כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה (every Jew is responsible for one another), is crucial in advocating for Hasidic children to receive a basic education. Watch the video recording of this class on Uri L’Tzedek’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UC_htFNr9duz-KJiXdtW8pI…
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Pursuing Justice Even When it's Hard: Overcoming Racism and Antisemitism with Rabbi Jonah Pesner
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Rabbi Jonah Pesner on Pursuing Justice Even When it's Hard: Overcoming Racism and Antisemitism Rabbi Pesner reflects on the Reform Movement's long-time racial justice commitments and the more recent challenges from rising bigotry and authoritarianism. He also addresses the dynamics that have emerged in the US since the Hamas attacks. Lastly, he dis…
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Was Avraham right to listen to God? ‘Yirat Elokim’ – Fearing God as the Development of a Moral Conscience - with Dr. Tanya White
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Dr. Tanya White at Uri L’Tzedek on “‘Yirat Elokim’ – Fearing God as the Development of a Moral Conscience” This shiur explored the idea of ‘yirat elokim’ as the development of moral conscience. Using the Akeida narrative as a framing paradigm it journeys through an exploration of the concept of yirat elokim in Torah including Yosef, the Hebrew midw…
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Mental Health in the Jewish Community - A Panel with Uri L'Tzedek
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From addiction to depression, mental health issues are present at all levels of our community just like every other. Come hear from experts in the field as they discuss mental health care in the Jewish community. Find out what you can do to support loved ones and receive insight into their experiences. Watch the video recording of this class on Uri…
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"Mind Your Own Business? Balancing Communal Responsibility and Personal Autonomy." - with Avi Narrow-Tilonsky
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Learn Torah with Rabbi Avi Narrow-Tilonski. Originally from Cherry Hill, NJ Avi Tilonsky, enjoys experiencing the exciting and ever-changing Jewish life in Jerusalem. Prior to moving to Israel, Avi worked as a communal rabbi and in adult Jewish education. Today, he is privileged to work for a Jewish organization helping Jewish communities around th…
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Celebrating 15 of uplifting Kashrut and Worker rights with the Tav Hayosher!
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Join a Zoom panel with Uri L’Tzedek’s Founder and president Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Uri L’Tzedek Board member Rosh Kehilah Dina Najman, and Campaign Director Eddie Chavez Calderon. We will be discussing our work in supporting workers for over 15 years with a rich grounding in the Torah. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/…
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A PANEL: What does Torah require of us regarding Ethical Consumption at our time?
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Join a thought-provoking panel discussion on Ethical Consumption featuring esteemed speakers Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, Founder of Uri L’Tzedek, Rabbi Dina Brawer, Executive Director of World Jewish Relief USA, and Dr. Steven Laufer, an economist from the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute. Delve into the intersection of ethics and consumerism as our expe…
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Education as a tactic to fight antisemitism in progressive spaces with Randy Fried
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Join an insightful discussion featuring Uri L'Tzedek's Campaign Director, Eddie Chavez Calderon, and Randy Fried, Director of Philanthropic Engagement & Communication at Tzedek America. Together, they will explore strategies to address Jewish hatred within progressive spaces, particularly from the perspective of Jews of color. With over two decades…
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Preparing for Pesach: On Liberation & Justice with Rabbi Yitz Greenberg.
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Join Rabbi Dr. Yitz Greenberg as he shares some Torah on liberation and social justice. On this night Rav Yitz & Mrs. Blu will also be awarding our J.J Greenberg Young Leadership awards to a select group of leaders. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/uriltzedek YouTube: / @uriltzedek1140 Ap…
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If God Had Not Redeemed Us, We Would Still Be Slaves: What Is Slavery Today? With Rabbi Shlomo Levin
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Even though slavery has long since been outlawed, according to the International Labor Organization tens of millions of people are still slaves. How can this be? In this session, we’ll use Jewish and secular sources to discuss what modern slavery is, what it looks like, and what we can do to stop it. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter:…
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Talking with Tara Strong, a renowned actress known for her talented voice work in animation.
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Did Anti-Semitism Begin with the Story of Purim? Learn with Rabba Sara Hurwitz!
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In a world where there is so much darkness, it would be easier to shut our eyes and pretend that destruction is not occurring all around us. It would be easier, but is it ethical? Do we have a religious obligation to witness tragedy, and if so, what is our obligation once we see and know?By Uri L'Tzedek
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A Conversation with professional basketball player Dan Grunfeld on his new book on the Holocaust.
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"Public Shaming" (The Deposing of Rabban Gamliel) with Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe
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Join a text study with Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe, the Associate Rabba of The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale discussing public shaming. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/uriltzedek YouTube: / @uriltzedek1140 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-ltzedek/id1603706369 Spotify: open.spo…
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A path to redemption - a panel on mass incarceration
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Join a panel of Criminal Justice Reform activists and clergy members as they discuss current efforts to combat injustice within mass incarceration. Featured Speakers: Victor Pate - Co-Director of the HALTsolitary Confinement coalition Darren Mack - Co-Director at Freedom Agenda Rabbi Gabe Kretzmer-Seed - Chaplain Moderator - Emma Goldblatt, Program…
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Organizing the Jewish community to protect Democracy!
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Join the Executive Director of A More Perfect Union Aaron Dorfman for a class addressing the dire need for the Jewish community to organize and protect our democracy. Learn why Jewish communities across the country are coming together to protect our vote! - Action plans from our friends at A More Perfect Union - First, you can encourage Jewish inst…
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Uri L'Tzedek Panel - Mandate to love and protect the stranger
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Join a panel of Immigrant rights leaders as we discuss our current immigration system, and our obligation to support the stranger. Featured Speakers: Rebecca Kirzner, Senior Director of Grassroots Advocacy & Organizing at HIAS Charlie Davidson, Co-Chair at Synagogue Coalition on the Immigration Crisis Eddie Chavez Calderon, Campaign Director of Uri…
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Resilience & Volunteering in Israel post Oct. 7th with Dana Yahel Talmi, Executive Director of Yahel.
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Join a conversation with the founder and Executive Director of Yahel – an Israeli nonprofit that brings young people from around the world to Israel for service and social action programs. Hear about what opportunities exist right now to volunteer in Israel, what the needs are and what are some ways to show up for Israel in a thoughtful way. STAY C…
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Doing Well While Doing Good: Socially Responsible Investing and Talmudic Wisdom- Rabbi Jacob Siegel
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The modern socially responsible investing movement claims we have a responsibility to "do well while doing good": to have a positive impact on the world while earning a financial return. The rabbis of the Talmud in fact debated that same claim. They developed surprising insights that can help us shape our contemporary investment decisions. Join Rab…
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The Imperative and Complexity of Ransoming Captives with Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
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The Imperative and Complexity of Ransoming Captives with Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy What wisdom can Jewish tradition bring to bear on the current hostage crisis? Join Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, Rosh Beit Midrash of Pardes. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/uriltzedek YouTube: / @uri…
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A worker can withdraw at any point: Laws protecting labor freedom with Rabbi Dr.Eliezer Finkelman.
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A worker can withdraw at any point: Laws protecting labor freedom Join a presentation from Rabbi Dr.Eliezer Finkelman exploring halachic laws around labor and freedom. Learn how to pull from Torah sources to better advocate for worker rights. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/uriltzedek Yo…
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Collective allyship during hard times with the President of LGBTQ+ organization ONE Community Angela Hughey
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Collective allyship during hard times with the President of LGBTQ+ organization ONE Community Angela Hughey Join Uri L’Tzedek’s Campaign Director Eddie Chavez Calderon and the President of LGBTQ+ organization ONE Community Angela Hughey for an in-depth conversation around partnership and allyship grounded in love and support of each other. STAY CON…
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Neither Pro-Choice Nor Pro-Life: Abortion in Jewish LawWith Rabbi Sarah Mulhern
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Pregnancy termination has been a hot-button issue in American political life for many decades. It is also an experience that impacts many members of our community in a variety of often quite personal ways. As both political and personal decision-makers, Americans have been given two stark and opposing frameworks for thinking about the ethics of abo…
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Finding grounding and identity in progressive spaces with David Kaufman.
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Join Uri L’Tzedek’s Campaign Director Eddie Chavez Calderon and David Kaufman a New York-based writer, an Adjunct Fellow, at Tel Aviv Institute, and an editor at the New York Post as they discuss current issues within the progressive community with rising antisemitism and the pressures emerging from within the Israel-Gaza war as Black and Brown Jew…
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The Measure of Sedom": Capitalism, Socialism, and Barbarism with Rabbi Will Friedman
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The Measure of Sedom": Capitalism, Socialism, and Barbarism with Rabbi Will Friedman Should private property exist? This fundamental question of social ethics and organization is taken up by a well-known rabbinic text, which classifies those who answer "yes" either as normal or as Sodomites and those who answer "no" as ignoramuses. We will do a dee…
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Farm workers in the US essential yet exploited with UFW Chief Executive Officer Diana Tellefson Torres
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Join a presentation as we learn how farm workers have been excluded from federal labor protections such as overtime pay, the right to unionize, etc. The culture of exploitation in the Agricultural Industry continues today. Recent labor trafficking cases and attempts to lower the wages of H-2A agricultural guest workers demonstrate the need for chan…
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Zealotry: Too Much of a Good Thing? With Rabbi Zach Truboff
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The temptation to zealotry has long been a part of religious life for better and for worse. This class will draw upon rabbinic texts, modern Jewish thought, and psychoanalysis to help us better understand zealotry's profound dangers and why it remains a necessary part of religious life. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/s…
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The People That Dwell Alone - Loneliness and Ethical Conduct With Rabbi Menashe East
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Join Rabbi Menashe for a Zoom class on Loneliness and Ethical Conduct with Torah sources. Rabbi Menashe East is the senior rabbi at the Mt Freedom Jewish Center in Randolph NJ. He is also an LCSW with a concentration in sex therapy. Currently, Rabbi Menashe is on staff as an adjunct professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Menashe is marr…
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Water Access: A Halakhic Argument with Rabbi David Polsky
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Many Americans lack access to affordable drinking water. Before the pandemic, Detroit residents unable to afford the exorbitant rates--in some cases 10% of their income--even had their water shut off. Legislation is being advanced in Michigan state legislature to ban future shutoffs and to ensure that Michigan residents don't have to pay more than …
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What does loving the stranger truly mean? With migrant justice activist Eddie Chavez Calderon.
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Join Uri L'Tzedek's Campaign Director Eddie Chavez Calderon for a detailed class on immigrant justice. Utilizing Torah sources we can discuss how we can move away from tolerance of strangers to a more loving humanitarian approach to supporting migrants. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/ur…
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Is changing Australia's constitution a Jewish value? With Rabbanit Nomi Kaltmann.
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Australia is currently in the middle of a referendum vote to amend our constitution to recognize Aboriginal Australians as the First Nations people of our country. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/uriltzedek YouTube: / @uriltzedek1140 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-ltze…
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Walking towards a more tolerable society with Dee Senae.
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Join a detailed discussion with the founder of Mosaic Visions Dee Sanae on the complexities of social justice work rooted in Jewish ethics. STAY CONNECTED: Website: utzedek.org Newsletter: utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: facebook.com/uriltzedek YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC_htFNr9duz-KJiXdtW8pIw Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-l…
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Exploring The Diaspora Jewish community of Latin america With Dr. Analucia Lopezrevoredo
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Join a detailed discussion on the adaption, customs, and lives of diaspora Jews from across Latin America. Learn about migrational justice that has a unique calling to Jews all over the globe. Dr. Analucía Lopezrevoredo (she/her/ella) is a Peruvian-Chilean-American sociologist, born in Peru and raised in Spain and the United States. A scholar of Je…
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A CLASS in FRANCE: Ethical Consumption in the 21st century with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz
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Join a night of celebration and learning as we give Tali Fitoussi's award in Paris and celebrate this year's Torat Chayim award recipients. STAY CONNECTED: Website: www.utzedek.org Newsletter: www.utzedek.org/subscribe Facebook: www.facebook.com/uriltzedek Apple Podcasts: www.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-ltzedek/id1603706369 Spotify: open.spot…
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Exploring Halacha on Living Kidney Donation with Rabbi Jason Weiner
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Rabbi Jason Weiner at Uri L’Tzedek on “Exploring Halacha on Living Kidney Donation” This is a detailed discussion of the personal, Halakhic and Torah issues to consider related to contemporary living organ donation. A Text study as well as personal anecdotes. Watch the video recording of this class on Uri L’Tzedek’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/cha…
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Jews and Humanity: Evolution of a Conversation - Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein
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Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein at Uri L’Tzedek on "Jews and Humanity: Evolution of a Conversation" For this session where we will explore diverse views of Gentiles in key Jewish texts, from our earlier biblical texts, and down through the many generations of rabbinic teachings. Some of the texts we will read together emphasize Jewish chosenness o…
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Saving a Life, Saving the World: Organ Transplant, Living Donation, and Opportunities for Improving the Landscape
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Regulating Hasidic Education between Rabbi Ysoscher Katz and Prof. Avi Helfand.
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The Mussar masters on our obligation to redress intergenerational pain and cultural Hurt with Hyim Shafner
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Social Justice in Kashrut Law with Shayna Abramson
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Sacrifice, Cravings, and Bloodshed: Does Torah Allow City Dwellers to Eat Animals? With Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
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Values and Reality: The Politics of Social Justice with Rabbi Jason Herman
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The Primacy of Morality over Ritual in the Prophets with Jeremiah Unterman
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What are the 2 most important values in the Torah? With Rabbi David Kasher!
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Jewish Exclusivity: Were Zrubavel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Raban Gamliel wise to keep the Jews separate in our religious practice with Rabbi Asher Lopatin
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Jewish Exclusivity: Were Zrubavel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Raban Gamliel wise to keep the Jews separate in our religious practice with Rabbi Asher LopatinBy Uri L'Tzedek
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Hidden Wrongs: Uncovering Injustices Built Into Our Community with Sam Fleischacker
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Can Factory Farmed Dairy Actually Be Kosher?
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Can Factory Farmed Dairy Actually Be Kosher? With Rabbi AryehBy Uri L'Tzedek
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Rav Kook’s Universal Torah Light with Rabbi Itzchak Evan-Shayish
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